I connected the dipol, to SDR antenna input, with an a female SMA extension cable which I cut it in two pieces and soldered to the
dipol.
For the boat I didn't want an extra VHF antenna so....
.... instead I bought an
antenna splitter from Glomex. Please note that this splitter can not be used with an
AIS tranciever !!
I changed the standard VHF antenna cable/connector, output from the
splitter, to the mentioned SMA cable above, soldered it to the PCB, and
connected it to the SDR antenna input.
Connect to 12 V DC and then You can receive and decode the VHF/AIS
signals.
As an add on, the splitter also have an FM-radio antenna output which
turned out to be better then the old antenna we had onboard.
I installed the same Glomex Splitter to a system similar to yours - SDR AIS (connected with a BNC to SMA adapter), FM Stereo and Raymarine/Raytheon RAY201 VHF and I get noise that I am unable to squelch out on the VHF. are you seeing any additional noise? if I turn the power off, the noise disappears
ReplyDeletethis is Techstyle from the Openplotter forum - nice site!
Hi Techstyle! Glad you liked the site. I have no problem with noice. Think it must be some sort of interference which sometimes is solved with a ferrite bead. Search with "wiki Ferrite bead"
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