HackRF from Ebay (China)

[hagster]

The start at 800Mhz up there is quite nothing realy interesting. 

Move along people, nothing to see here....

868/ 915 ISM band, GSM, UMTS, LTE, CDMA, iridiumb Thuraya, GPS, Glonass, Galileo, ADS-b, SIGFOX, LORA, hydrogen lines, WiFI, Bluetooth, Zigbee, NB-IoTb LTE-M, uWave PIR,  Point to point uWave links.

[Lord of nothing]

  oke 868 ISM I had forgotten about.
For the LTE Stuff I would use an LTE Antenna for? 
Use that Antenna for Sat stuff is possible? I know the need a high gain Antenna.

[hagster]

oke 868 ISM I had forgotten about.
For the LTE Stuff I would use an LTE Antenna for? 
Use that Antenna for Sat stuff is possible? I know the need a high gain Antenna.

LTE is a pretty good use case. Its used on a staggering number of bands. Anywhere from 800MHz to 3.4GHz is fairly common. Building an (small and cheap) monopole antenna to cover all this well is hard. There is no shortage of commercial antennas that, when measured, do not live up to their specs. I have seen plenty of wifi antennas that are worse than useless for example.

Yes, a lot of sat stuff does really require a much higher gain, there is plenty that work with small omni directional patches. Sirrus radio is an example as well as iridium etc.

[Lord of nothing]

How about this offer: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Open-Source-HackRF-One-Software-Defined-Radio-Board-1MHz-6GHz-with-Shell/263366826183?hash=item3d51e2d8c7:g:nLsAAOSwevlZ9aZr

[Karlo_Moharic]

Order one from China , customs usually don't bother for such small items. From experience I can say that customs usually look at the mass and the size of item to determine wether certain item are free to pass or duty needs so to be paid. For them this is small electronic device that costs no more than 20$.

[Karlo_Moharic]

Also if you are thight with cash this is a great little device:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/100KHz-1-7GHz-full-band-UV-HF-RTL-SDR-USB-Tuner-Receiver-R820T-8232-Ham-Radio/201773887159?hash=item2efaa92eb7:g:Ue4AAOSwA3dYbmae

[Lord of nothing]

  thats the ordinary R820T. I want more Banthwith and higher Freq. 
 

From experience I can say that customs usually look at the mass and the size of item to determine wether certain item are free to pass or duty needs so to be paid.

When the Chinesse declare it as Value 10$ + Gift the passt troth. I have to pay just customs when the Ship something from US. The  declare it correct.