[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Basic Question about the BasicRX daughterboard

[Matt Ettus]

Heiko Jones wrote:
> Hey Matt,
>
> What sort of basic circuit would I need to make to enable my basic RX
> daughterboard to receive some of the ham bands, I am interested in
> specifically WWV and WWVB right now. I can make my own dipole antenna
> easily enough, but I was reading your faq, and was wondering what all
> was entailed in: " For reception you would need to add gain and
> filtering in front of the BasicRX daughterboard. This can be done
> pretty easily with MiniCircuits parts..." Do you have any simple
> schematics or at least what would need to be done? I am assuming a
> preamp of sorts, but what about the filtering? I don't have any ham
> equipment at all and have not really had to do any antenna stuff since
> school...


I would use a simple bandpass filter around the frequency of interest
and then an RF amplifier.  Another option would be so-called active
antennas, which you can get from radio shack. 

Matt