Any Program Indication That RF Gain Too High ?

Robert111
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Any Program Indication That RF Gain Too High ?

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Hello,

Have a RSPdx.

Is there any "visual" program indication that you have the rf Gain set to high, and possibly overloading the RSPdx ?

If not, what's a good way of telling ?

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Bob

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Robert,

Although I haven't seen it lately, I'm pretty sure there is a pop-up overload message in the middle of the waterfall. Tried to force my RSP2 into an overload, but the message did not appear. I will post a pic if successful.
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Got one
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I am not sure how I would go about that. Most front end hardware such as rtlsdr dongles do not export a flag that indicates that the A/D converter has overflowed. That is the information that is needed.

However, you generally do get visual indication when a small increase in gain or the appearance of a strong signal causes the spectrum to go crazy and the noise floor increase dramatically. When you really do hit overload it's rather dramatic on the spectrum.

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mbott wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:54 pmGot one
"Signal Overload" listening to "Overcomer Ministry".
Now why would that surprise me? ;)
Paul White (Grumpy Old Git)

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