On: GNU Radio Tools for Radio Wrangling and Spectrum D...

[jjoonathan]

Not to be rude, I have no way of judging your skill level, but are you sure you understand the implications of 20-100khz bandwidth and a tuning range of 1-10mhz? Here is the table at top with the zeta included. I'd _strongly_ recommend going with the rtl-sdr over the zeta as a first radio.

    Source	Device	Price	Max.	Bandwidth       Resolution
     	        Name	EUR	GHz	MHz             bit
    0           zeta-sdr  30    .01     .002            16
    1	        rtl-sdr	  25	2	3 		8
    2	        rad1o	 200	4	20		8
    3	        hackrf	 400	6	20		8
    4	        bladeRF	 400 	4	28		12
    5	        usrp	 700	6	60		12/14
    6	        warp	7000	5	170		14

[th0ma5 → jjoonathan]

Yes I'd go along with this. You're going to have a plug & play experience more so with the RTL... I guess my interest at the time was transatlantic weak digital signals on HF ham bands. With the RTL-SDR you'll be able to "see" all your favorite radio stations, listen to or track airplanes, and all kinds o things. With an upconverter (~$40) you'll get into HF a bit as well.