Nooelec NESDR Mini 2+ 0.5PPM TCXO RTL-SDR & ADS-B USB Receiver Set w/Antenna, Mount & Female SMA Adapter. RTL2832U & R820T2 Tuner. Low-Cost Software Defined Radio for Windows, Mac OS & Linux

I'm giving it 5 stars because I know lots of people who have great fun with this. There is absolutely no way that I could get mine to work.. I think it was my computer having issues with the drivers. I also have a lot of radios anyway & a lack of patience 😂 In all fairness, I did try it several times over about 5 weeks. I may try it again with a different computer at some point.

For the price. A bargain. It May not be as good as a more expensive higher end product. But for £21 this is brilliant. Only draw back is software that it will work with on Windows xp. I down loaded the recommended software from the site. Works well and has many features. At the moment it's plugged into a temporary 2m band antenna. 100 feet of cheap coax run. But. It has been very good picking up ham transmissions on 2m. Also 70 cm. Marine band on 156mhz . Air band etc. My main reason for getting this was to receive APT weather satellites on 137mhz. The adjustable bandwidth makes this perfect. I have had the best images I've ever had even though it's not the correct antenna. I have found this usefull for checking for harmonics. The only fault i have found is i pick up radio broadcast stations when turned to 28mhz. This could possibly be down to a fault my end . Also note ty'at this uses a lot of processor power. My laptop 1.6ghz struggled to run it. But perfect on 3.2ghz base unit. Runs about 43% processor. Overall im very pleased with this dongle.

I'm using this on a Raspberry Pi 3 to decode ADS-B signals from nearby aircraft and feed them into various flight-tracking applications (360radar, FR24, FlightAware, etc.). This particular dongle compares favourably with the others on the market: it's slightly more expensive than the really cheap ones, but includes the much better second-generation R820T2 controller. General consensus seems to be the T2 version has considerably less frequency drift with temperature than the previous version. The supplied antenna works okay if you can get it high enough (loft space is a good bet) but obviously won't give you the range you'll get from a proper colinear external antenna - there are several on the market.

Ok let's get the rough out of the way. ...I ordered two of these intending to listen to London Bus trunking among other things. First...the aerials are useless. I dimantled the whips and used them to make a small adjustable dipole and then used my own aerial. These would have been good with a better aerial connection too ...poss mcx. Having said that, for the money they are amazing value. I own an aor dv1 scanner ...it cost 1400 quid and in all honesty dosent do any more than these apart from looking the part. These use sdrsharp as the radio and it is excellent and well supported on google and youtube. It is a free download. I have used DSDplus, an add on for sdr sharp to listen to encoded london based pmr between 160 and 170mhz. Its amazingly addictive. I have listened to buses, taxis had a go at aeroplane data decoding and aircraft chatter. It decodes radio pager traffic with simple free software and satellite data. Rail companies and other land based dmr on uhf at about 400 to 460 mhz. If it isn't encrypted this thing can likely hear it. If you have a bnc plug aerial you must get a MCX to BNC adaptor to clip onto the little gold adaptor they supply with the unit or you're stuck with the pitiful aerial. The kids wont thank you for that. All in all a great buy though. Highly recommended for those not afraid of tinkering.

for £20 you cant really go wrong. i see some review say this is deaf and gets interference from PC but I have a radio that covers 446 PMR and I got same results with this as I do that radio. I do notice some harmonics but noting more that I get on scanner. I have only used it to listen to some things so far like PMR CB so lot still to have fun with :) Oh I would get bigger aerial if you want to listen to more as the small aria you get is not amazing but ok to start you off. Not much else to say atm but I will edit this later if I can and say more, just got it this morning and been playing with it since lol and it is good. Anyone has any questions about buy this i will try answer but mind i just got it today :) oh and people saying you dont get instructions on how to work it well they email you with that info also :):)

Well built,and solid. Works a charm and mist impressed with ability and what's included making this amazing value for money and extremely educational and practical. Diagnosed a weather sensor fault with this and also an issue with heating thermostat, extremely cool to do that at this price point. Works very well upon a Raspberry Pi and just can't go wrong. Good intro device for SDR and then some. So good that I may buy another and definitely one of their more advanced models they also make.

The only thing I could receive on it was some local FM radio stations but not all of them. Meanwhile my portable FM radio had no trouble tuning them in so I tried using a longer antenna rather than supplied whip antenna and again I couldn't receive anything on LW, MW or the entire HF band from 3Mhz to 30Mhz - Nothing but a couple of local FM stations. Audio was slightly distorted and the overall sensitivity of the unit was poor at best. Tried two different software downloads including the one recommended by Nooelec. Either this thing is garbage or just mine. Completely disappointed after looking forward to trying SDR. There's was no documentation included with the unit which was packaged in a Ziploc bag and the remote control does absolutely nothing. In my opinion, Don't waste your money on this. this is a copy of another review but it says everthing i was thinking about this bin fodder

I have no idea after 4 hours trying to install drivers and make it work I gave up. Warning. 100% this is NOT plug and play. Don’t think you just install software, find the dll and instal, that is NOT the case. This is a total pain to install. If you are only a computer user or hobbiest give up !! This thing is hell !!’

Come dongle SDR non c'è che dire, ma in base all'utilizzo va utilizzata un'antenna esterna più "seria". Con le frequenze 1090 invece funziona discretamente (all'aperto), si riescono a tracciare bene i segnali adsb. Ottima la ricezione della banda FM, audio cristallino e stabile. Non ho riscontrato problemi di saturazione e/o surriscaldamenti anche con uso intensivo e gain alto. Ottimo per chi vuole iniziare senza spendere un patrimonio. Usato con sdr# funziona bene. Per utilizzarlo vanno usati i driver "modificati", al momento dell'acquisto riceverete una mail con tutte le istruzioni.. PS. non ho avuto ancora modo di testare la chiavetta per ricevere il dvb-t.

I like it! I use SDR* (this unit in particular with the "HAM IT UP" converter) to spot signals/callers on whatever ham band I'm working at the time - a bit "wimpy" (sensitivity seems to drop off a bit on my module) at the AM radio frequencies and lower - If you want it for VHF and UHF listening it seems perfectly fine (police, fire, weather) I've had some compatibility issues with certain older USB ports - I also have had a bit of trouble getting it to work well with SDR # (again on some older machines and one newer machine) which surprised me a little - BUT since I basically use HDSDR and it worked very well with that, I didn't fight very hard to resolve the SDR # issues on some machines - it is definitely compatible with either SDR program and many others - it works VERY well on both programs on my Lenovo YOGA PRO 2 - it's an eye opening experience for such an inexpensive module to get an insight in to SDR, esp. if you've never been exposed to SDR before *SDR means software defined radio (on edit 2/14/2016) This unit has totally converted me to SDR - I will be buying some kind of SDR FLEX transceiver system as a result of this unit, but I digress - HF. VHF, UHF, different modes, and then there's aircraft tracking as well - there just doesn't seem to be an end to the things I keep discovering it can do. If you're at all interested in radio modes, sw listening, and can't or don't want to invest a lot of money, this is definitely the way to "get your proverbial feet wet" You definitely want an upconverter though if interested in SW listening or HAM RADIO. (I'm using NooElec's V1.3 unit) This has also become a very important "band preview" device as well. It holds up well in strong transmitter fields. I expected I like it! I use SDR* (this unit in particular with the "HAM IT UP" converter) to spot signals/callers on whatever ham band I'm working at the time - a bit "wimpy" (sensitivity seems to drop off a bit on my module) at the AM radio frequencies and lower - If you want it for VHF and UHF listening it seems perfectly fine (police, fire, weather) I've had some compatibility issues with certain older USB ports - I also have had a bit of trouble getting it to work well with SDR # (again on some older machines and one newer machine) which surprised me a little - BUT since I basically use HDSDR and it worked very well with that, I didn't fight very hard to resolve the SDR # issues on some machines - it is definitely compatible with either SDR program and many others - it works VERY well on both programs on my Lenovo YOGA PRO 2 - it's an eye opening experience for such an inexpensive module to get an insight in to SDR, esp. if you've never been exposed to SDR before *SDR means software defined radio (on edit 2/14/2016) This unit has totally converted me to SDR - I will be buying some kind of SDR FLEX transceiver system as a result of this unit, but I digress - HF. VHF, UHF, different modes, and then there's aircraft tracking as well - there just doesn't seem to be an end to the things I keep discovering it can do. If you're at all interested in radio modes, sw listening, and can't or don't want to invest a lot of money, this is definitely the way to "get your proverbial feet wet" You definitely want an upconverter though if interested in SW listening or HAM RADIO. This has also become a very important "band preview" device as well. It holds up well in strong transmitter fields. I expected damage at high transmitter power, but so far nothing. It just keeps on ticking! :) I had problems with a WIN 7 install originally. Something was wrong in that original OS. Same machine but upgraded to WIN 10 Pro, and both SDR# and HDSDR work perfectly now. I expected possible damage at high transmitter power, but so far nothing. It just keeps on ticking! :) I had problems with a WIN 7 install originally. Something was wrong in that original OS. Same machine but upgraded to WIN 10 Pro, and both SDR# and HDSDR work perfectly now. What, $20.00 or $25.00 plus the upconverter @approx: $45.00 and you have quite a bit you can do. I really like it for ham radio but recently using the aircraft tracking sw. has really been "enlightening!"

Ich habe eine preiswerte ADS-B Lösung gesucht und hatte auch China-Sticks für 7-8 Euro in Erwägung gezogen.Da mir die Lieferzeit zu lange war und ich auch nach Studium des WWW kein rechtes Vertrauen zu den ganz billigen Sticks aufbauen konnte, habe ich mich für diesen nicht so billigen, aber immer noch preiswerten Stick entschieden. Ich habe eine Standard-Lösung mit Raspberry 3B aufgebaut und sende meine Daten an Flightradar.com.Das Setup hat sehr gut und schnell funktioniert.Ich bekomme mit der mitgelieferten Antenne ( Teleskop) Reichweiten bis 75nm / 140km, wenn die Antenne am Fenster steht. Im Raum irgendwo sind es noch so 22nm.Was aber trotzdem für die Freischaltung des Flightradar Business Accounts reicht ! Ich möchte mich daher der Rezension von "GaRoMeSi" anschließen, Stick mit sehr guter Empfangsqualität für den Preis und daher schnelle Erfolge für Einsteiger. Falls ein Einsteiger nicht so ganz durchblickt, was man denn nun braucht bzw. bestellen sollte, hier die Liste der Amazon Artikel ink. Links, mit denen ich es aufgebaut habe: Raspberry 3B: https://www.amazon.de/Raspberry-Board-Model-Qdcore-USB2-0/dp/B01CCOXV34/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1478382809&sr=1-4&keywords=raspberry+pi+3 Gehäuse: https://www.amazon.de/Electronic-Alps-Techniker-Raspberry-Gummif%C3%BC%C3%9Fen/dp/B01DT6UPQU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478382863&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=electronic+alps+technik+geh%C3%A4use+set+f%C3%BCr+raspberry+pi+3 Netzteil: https://www.amazon.de/3000mAh-Netzteil-Raspberry-ausreichende-Leistungsreserve/dp/B01E75SB2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478382917&sr=8-1&keywords=Rydges+EU+5V+3A+3000mAh 32GB Micro SD Card: https://www.amazon.de/SanDisk-Android-microSDHC-Speicherkarte-SD-Adapter/dp/B010Q57T02/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478382963&sr=8-1&keywords=SanDisk+Ultra+Android+microSDHC+32GB+bis+zu+80+MB%2FSek Für das Betriebsystem des Raspberry einfach nach "Noobs" googeln, da sollte direkt das erste Suchergebnis zum entsprechenden Downloadlink führen. 5 Sterne gibt es von mir für diesen SDR Stick für ein sehr umkompliziertes Setup in Zusammenhang mit dem Raspberry PI und der FR24 bzw. dump1090 Software sowie für die recht guten Empfangsleistungen ohne spezielle Antennen oder sonstige zusätzliche Investionen.

Simple, easy and very cheap but does the job perfectly!

Purchased as a USB TV tuner for my Linux (Ubuntu) NUC. Was detected by NextPVR software instantly, and works well with no issues. It's just a pain to also have to order an antenna adapter (for Australia - MCX to either F-type wall plug with the screw tip or PAL female to use with an existing cable).