The maximum RX power of HackRF One is -5 dBm. You are responsible for using your HackRF One legally.
#HACKRF ONE TRANSMIT POWER SOFTWARE#
HF, VHF or UHF, or perhaps a VHF/UHF amplifier that does not cover HF). Designed and created by Great Scott Gadgets, HackRF One is a Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1 MHz to 6 GHz. HackRF One has not been tested for compliance with regulations governing transmission of radio signals. This obviously adds to the cost and complexity of an amplifier, and to cover a very large number of bands would at some point become prohibitively complicated or expensive.Ī better alternative is to use less expensive components, and design an amplifier for a specific band or set of bands (e.g. (And this is before we talk about parasitic oscillations within such a wideband amplifier.)įor this reason, all good amplifiers that support multiple frequencies have a switched passband, where each band is selected individually (usually manually, but solid-state amplifiers have started to include automatic band switching) and there are good filters on the input and output to keep out-of-band signals to a minimum. Reset - to restart HackRf on power, and DFU - to restore the factory firmware. Compatible with GNU Radio, SDR, and more Software-configurable RX and TX gain and baseband filter Software-controlled antenna port power (50 mA at 3.3 V). Designed to enable test and development of modern and next generation radio technologies, HackRF One is an open source hardware platform that can be used as a USB peripheral or programmed for stand. More expensive radios usually have much more filtering than cheaper models.Īn amplifier will amplify all signals within its passband, and so if you had a wideband amplifier that amplifies all signals from Top Band (around 1.8MHz) to the 70cm band (around 430MHz), it would also amplify any spurious signals coming out of the transmitter. The device allows not only to receive, but also to transmit radio signals. HackRF One from Great Scott Gadgets is a Software Defined Radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1MHz to 6 GHz.
Since all radios generate some out-of-band signals, there is usually some degree of filtering to make sure that those signals are kept to a minimum. Just to answer the second part of the question, you do not want an amplifier that has too wide a bandwidth, mainly to lower the complexity (and hence also the cost) of the amplifier.Īll users of radio spectrum (including radio amateurs) must not cause any interference to other users of the radio spectrum, and that means that out-of-band transmissions must be kept to an absolute minimum.