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@glovisol
The discone itself NEVER will receice any reasonable signal at low frequencies! It is much to small compared to the wavelength.

Some time ago I did run some tests and simulations on the antenna at low frequencies. Here you find a comprehensive presentation of the basics. It may help to answer some of the questions. At my installation (l = 15m) the antenna gives good results up to a frequnecy of a wavelength of 4l=60m or f=5M...

Installing a common mode choke at the upper end of the antenna cable, the antenna will not work at low frequencies. At low frequencies the primary antenna element is the antenna cable. Installing the choke at the lower end results in a completely different antenna: it is a unsymmetrical dipole then,...

An excelent presentation of the fundamentals of the discone antenna, mounted on a pole, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFYVpJ9FPZ8 Please look at 12:20. Sory, it is in German. If you want to run some simulations: the total capacitance of the elements of the DJ-130 antenna is 25pF.

This has been reported many times before. It even works down below 10kHz. So, a well disgned installation will give you a frequency range of 10kHz to 2Ghz - at full sensitivity (SNR)! Background: at low frequencies the antenna cable (or the antenna pole) acts as a grounded vertical stub antenna. The...

And how to store the new setting?

Why have the modifications not been applied to the RSP1A?
Consequent grounding of the antenna- and the USB-port and/or internal decoupling result in a dramatic improvement in interference immunity.

You may take a look at the navy-signals at 20kHz. The narrowband signals (B=200Hz) have a world wide coverage. This will give you an idea on how good your antenna system is. And you can compare your signal to an excellent receiving system at the Netherlands: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ At my ...

"dBm" makes a lot of sense! DBm is a logarithmic parameter for rf-power, not depending on the impedance. In the near future it will replace all the last century parameters like dBuV, S-units, receiver sensitivity uV, power.... All modern test equipment like signal-generators, power sources, power me...

someYguy wrote:I just tried SDR# v1.0.0.1500(the latest) with the v2.2 plugin under Windows 7 and it works fine here.....

The latest version is 1530 now. Seems it does not work any more now.