Have seen an example of “bare LNB” reception of QO-100 GEO ham satellite from Andreas Preuss, DL5APR. That was quite shocking… So tried to reproduce that experiment using my own receiver setup. Looks like its works fine for stronger signals! I can imagine adding some tricks to the LNB’s horn antenna to improve it’s gain Read more about Es’hail 2 / Qatar-OSCAR 100 bare LNB vs Parabolic dish reception test[…]
It uses a LTC 14-bit 65 MHz ADC and Xilinx Artix-7 A35 FPGA, and also has an integrated SDR based GPS receiver which is used to automatically compensate for any frequency drift from the main 66.6 MHz oscillator. The features of the KiwiSDR include: 100% Open Source / Open Hardware. Includes VLF-HF active antenna and associated power injector PCBs. Read more about KIWISDR: 30 MHZ BANDWIDTH SDR FOR VLF/LF/MF/HF with OpenWebRX[…]
Here is an excellent article about that: http://www.g8jnj.net/softwaredefinedradio.htm Here is where I’ve found it: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/measuring-the-input-impedance-of-the-rtl2832u-direct-sampling-input-pins/