Airspy Mini - High Performance SDR Dongle

AIRSPY MINI – High-Performance Miniature SDR Dongle

A high-performance miniature SDR hardware key for everyone!

The Airspy Mini is based on the successful architecture of the Airspy R2 and offers an affordable high-performance receiver for VHF and UHF bands. Coverage can also be extended to HF bands using the accompanying converter SpyVerter.

This new addition to the Airspy family is 100% compatible with all existing software, including the de facto scanning standard SDR#, as well as many popular software-defined radio applications such as SDR Radio, HDSDR, GQRX, and GNU Radio.

You can download a complete list of supported software on this page.

Specifications

• Continuous 24 – 1800 MHz native RX range, down to DC with SpyVerter option
• 3.5 dB NF between 42 and 1002 MHz
• Search RF filters
• 35dBm IIP3 RF front end
• 12bit ADC (80dB dynamic range, 64dB SNR, 10.4 ENOB)
• 10, 6, and 3 MSPS IQ output
• 0.5 ppm high accuracy, low phase noise clock
• Pano spectrum up to 6 MHz
• IQ or Real, 16bit fixed or 32bit float output streams
• No IQ imbalance, DC or 1/F noise correction at center spectrum, includes all other SDR
• 4.5v software switchable bias-t 100% compatible with SpyVerter and high-performance LNA
• No drivers needed! Just plug it in and you can use it on Windows Vista, Seven, 8, 8.1, and 10 and all types of Linux
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Pine64, and UP boards
• Operating temperature: -10°C to 40°C

Use Cases

• VHF/UHF/SHF radio monitoring
• Real-time spectrum analyzer
• ADS-B, ATC receiver
• Radio astronomy
• Satellite IF
• Telemetry receiver
• Wideband scanner
• Education
• Amateur radio stations, etc.

Supported Platforms

• Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 (for Windows XP please contact Airspy team)
• Linux
• *BSD
• OSX
• Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Pine64, UP

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• Dual-core 2 GHz CPU or comparable
• 2 GB RAM (for your own OS to work, Airspy needs under 1MB of memory)
• High-speed USB 2.0 interface

Developer API

• Open source multi-platform tools Libairspy and Airspy on github
• Open source Airspy firmware on github
• Linux kernel SDR API (by Antti Palosaari) on github