DVB-T Dongles
Comparison
| rtl-sdr.com "silver" dongle | Flight Aware Pro | Flight Aware Pro Plus | Newgen "green" dongle | Thumbnet N3 | Cheap dongle R820T / R820T2 | Bad dongle (short one) | |
| Price | ~20€ (rtl-sdr.com) | ~30€ (amazon.de) | ~36€ (amazon.de) | ~18€ (ebay.de) | ~25-33$ | ~10€ | ~10€ |
| Rating for OGN receiver | +++ | ++ | - / ++ (… read the notes) | ??? | + | + | - |
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| Sensitivity | good | good | good | ** ??? | average | good | bad |
| Connector | SMA | SMA | SMA | SMA | F | MCX | MCX |
| Temperature compensated crystal (TCXO) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Aluminium enclosure | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no |
| Integrated LNA | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Integrated Bias-T | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Notes | The integrated Bias-T makes the stick excellent for usage with amplifier because you do not need additional power supply | Integrated filter for 1090MHz which make it useless for OGN. Expert only**: you can replace the filter with a filter for 868MHz which makes this stick excellent for OGN |
??? | External 5V DC input | Caution: some of these sticks are sold mentioning the tuner R820T or R820T2 but they have the tuner FC0012 inside. The FC0012 is bad for OGN. Regarding R820T vs R820T2: There is no obvious difference in reception. | they tend to get hot and crystals drift very much off. If you absolutely need to use them - give them good cooling (remove the casing, etc.): |
page revision: 78, last edited: 06 May 2019 09:13