If your willing to post it back to me after your finished playing with it then I will send it to you post free with an OPR form (no customs duties either way), and you can have a good old test but I think you will be disappointed. In short it’s 8bit ADC, terrible image rejection and lack of filtering make it for me one to avoid. True it’s capable of 20mbps but it stutters on an i7 at 16mbps and depending on the load the PC is under it’s hardly capable of that as it’s only USB 2.0. I’ve pointed my satellite antenna directly at a satellite and heard it at an s7 and it’s down in the noise the the hackRf. It suffers with images, needs an additional hi stab TCXO (compensated) for GSM or GPS, badly filtered in my opinion and offers an optional shield to keep out stray signals, even very strong signals have issues and even the addition of an Lna won’t help. There’s loads of support and of course it transmits too at I think 10mw however apart from that it’s pretty much junk. I have he HackRF One and it’s a deaf as a post.
#Hackrf one vs bladerf full#
Luftek on eBay has a full case w/fan + heatsinks for ~$60 If you have any other questions, go ahead & ask / Gerry If you decide to get a LimeSDR, make sure you get decent a cooling solution. There are some 'prepackaged' toolsets to run LimeSDR as a 4G BTS so that would be relatively easy to set up. HackRF is half-duplex so can't run as a BTS. For the purpose you describe, LimeSDR is the only option. Support for LimeSDR in the bigger SDR softtware is growing (SDRConsole, SDR Angel, GNU Radio). Now that SoapySDR is fully supported, commandline tools are more available, but this is relatively recent. Basically measures power levels at ~6GHz bandwidth/sec LimeSDR is vastly more powerful: lower noise floor, wider sample bandwidth, more on-board pre-processing (bigger FPGA), faster USB, full duplex!, MIMO. HackRF is easier to use for many of my use-cases (RF security analysis, reply attacks etc.) HackRF gets much less warm in use so I am less concerned with leaving it running for extended periods. I have both, and can share some of my experiences.