This video is made for people like you - Who understand no more than 10%. Those who understand more than 10% know that what he is saying and showing doesnt make much sense.
I think most people, who own these Tiny SA gizmos, don't know what every feature is, or how to use them. They buy it for the one or two features they want to use it for, and thats all they every use it for! (Like tuning an antenna or checking spurious emmissions!)
In the mountains of western North America wildlife collars have largely transitioned to satellite, but many have retained dual capability wjth VHF for facilitating field use in real time as GPS data can be 6 hours old based on the upload interval (because uploads are hard on battery life). As most bears nowdays only receive a collar if they mis-behaved near town, now you have the potential to go for a backcountry hike and if you see some wildlife sign, switch on your Tiny SA and see if there are any potential bad actors in your vicinity.
I was a kid in the 70's and my father, who was a kid himself during WWII, brought out his old shortwave set. I'd spend hours listening to all sorts of broadcasts. It's been years since I've listened to one but this Tiny SA looks interesting. Perhaps Santa will bring me one . ;)
You could of course make a prayer ti Santa Maris - Santa Barbara - or a host of others. However - there is a slight problem. They can only communicate with the DEAD You will thus have to wait a while until you meet the criteria
Hey Andy, we use these tiny SA's todo a quick check on LED light bars/Headlights at work - Most LED lights are very noisy due to the fast switching, It becomes a problem on a vehicles digital data packet receive . If we find a noisy lightbar/lamp it has to be uninstalled for safety. Awesome video - never thought to listen in! 73's
I bought a spectrum analyser for business use in 1984, which cost me £6500.00. The sort of stuff that is out there today is far more convenient and easy to use. The only advantage the forty year old stuff has is the front end attenuators and calibration, having said that, I've not used it in twenty years. For £77 I might just treat myself. Thanks for the video Andy.
You most definitely should imo ... Really cool to get your perspective ... As a mid 30s guy who's grown up and lived in the nyc metro area ... Super interesting to hear how the scene was during decades before my time and even more so from the other side of the pond. If you will definitely be able to make use of it, I actually have this exact SA but I inadvertently ended up with 2 identical units after ordering one and 2 wks post estimated delivery date, I reported it not arriving and was sent a replacement which arrived via complimentary express delivery. Fast forward nearly 7-8 weeks, the original one arrived. I only opened it to confirm what it was but nothing beyond that and would love it to get into the hands of an active enthusiast. My dad and brother will be traveling to England in mid April for business, and I could have them ship it domestically within the UK to you. Im not big on selling stuff via eBay or Craigslist etc but with this sort of thing, gifting it to an internet stranger with an interesting anecdote sounds good to me lol. If interested, drop a reply and we can figure out via email.
There is a tiny little man inside the box, running back and forth, super fast. Listening to everything, and he makes little marks on the screen! He is like a teeny tiny Flash!
In the US you are allowed to listen to any signal on the spectrum. If its on the air, then its free for anyone to hear. If its encrypted, you are not allowed to try to dexrypt it though.
On the strength of this video I bought a tinySA.. then I discovered your CB content!!.. I remember walking off the mountain towards the Jamaican Inn in Cornwall, I could see my parents headlights in the pubs carpark but couldn't hear her whatsoever, then a kind chap from Scotland did a relay for us.. how weird the outer Atmosphere was that day, quite a epic relay.. I also have my radio licence but have not used it in years..
Looks like I've just found my Christmas present to myself 😂. I've had a tiny SA for quite a while. Amazing bit of kit!! This updated version should be a very nice addition to the shack.
With a directional beam antenna this would be the top rig for Fox Hunting. Also finding QRM causing problems in your station. It can show you harmonics and more. I found a problem that was wiping out my HF station. It turned out to be the "Wall Wart" PS that charges my Apple laptop. When I located it I unplugged it and the S meter went from 7-9 down to 1-2 and stations started coming in. Use one to locate a miss placed Bluetooth device "if it is on and charged" or a cell phone if it has the WiFi turned on. 73s
The TinySA is awesome. A bench spectrum analyzer is really out of financial reach. And? Portable, NOT! It really lets you explore your World. I noticed door burgler alarm system, even my key fobs. Great to find noise, just use a portable AM transistor radio to "steer" you by nulling, and then get close with the NanoVNA. Did you know it's ALSO an RF Generator? Yep! The NanoVNA (and the TinyVNA and the RTL-SDR as well!!!) Are GAME CHANGERS. As are our modern scopes. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL
Great video, a couple of tips for you (and others).... these things are super sensitive to front end blow out when hooking up an outside antenna that may have static build up, suggest grounding your antenna center conductor to ground prior to hooking up to the Ultra.. also, suggest swapping out that SO-239/SMA adapter to a pigtail of the same genders, hanging that heavy adapter AND the cable and it's PL-259 off the SMA is asking for a snapped SMA. Also, I'd be a bit more careful about keying up a portable like you did the Icom so close to the unit, same reasons, you'll blow out the front end, especially in light of the fact I didn't see you turn off the LNA.. sure, you may be on an external antenna but that's a plastic case and you don't have any attenuation inline if it also came down the coax... thanks for the great video....
@Jennifer-007 Thanks for the great insights! I am a beginner... would be this device better for listening to interesting foreign radio stations than a regular radio, like a Tecsun? I do not want to spend a lot of money, but would like to have a nice device to listen for the whole spectrum, anything radio :)
This is really interesting, my hobby is metal detecting, and metal detectors run from 4KHz to 80KHz, depending on the machine. If you had a display like the TinySA. You could get a better picture of what is in the ground. Thanks.
I want to start doing that but its expensive to get started, I have a good job but I swear everyone is wealthy but me is what it seems like online real life is differnet
As an American watching this video,I had to laugh when you said 'tiny one hundred pound device' as a picture of a small but massively heavy thing flashed in my mind. We are so old fashioned. LOL Seriously,this seems an awesome little device to have ,just for hobby fun.
@@ChatGPT1111 that’s not so funny…. You think the uk globalist don’t want the USA ? Why do you think joe Biden is destroying this country as fast as possible.. who do you think these scum work for? Your daft.
Hi Andy. Thank you for all the videos you have made for us. 🙏 I have the "imposed" question... is it possible to differentiate ssb? Thanks in advance. 🙏
Apart from picking up noise from a neighbour’s inverter and making him feel really guilty. 😂 I have only used mine for working on radios…obviously there’s endless possibilities with these...Thanks for the Video Andy.
Only goes to 960 MHZ. Thats why its so cheap. Push it up to 5 GHz and its a whole different game. I remember listening to phone calls on my Radio shack scanner back in the late 90s in the 900 Mhz band. Cell phones quickly moved up higher and fixed intercept capabilities. Newt Gingrich's intercepted phone call help seal that!
Most scanners front ends were so cheaply made you didn't need 900MHz to listen to cellular. Just tuning through 400MHz and upwards would allow you to listen to cellular. Incidentally, I was asked to move on when I was auditing freqs from a football club. The massive spike I saw on the screen was the security bloke calling his boss to say there was a bloke with something outside the gate. On being approached he asked me to step over the building line as I was bringing the club into disrepute. My reply asked if that was the same level of disrepute the supporters curried when they lost the game? I stood the other side of the non existent building line for 15m and then left. The bloke was vacuous and did not understand my explanation of what I was showing him.
Thanks. As Radio Amateurs, you and I would use it for monitoring our signals for spurious transmissions. Perfectly legitimate, and pretty much mandatory from a licensing viewpoint. .
I've got something very similar. It's just amazing. If you string up a long wire ariel up in the garden, you'll be blown away with what you can hear. It's a hobby just on its own.
This is good these days for entertaintment only. I'm in the US and wish I had this back in the 90's when I installed and repaired RF equipment for a communications company mainly for police, fire, and ems. Now in many states and mine the RF is digitally scrammbled for local police "Due to the bad guys" ruining it for the good citizens but what else can we do until somebody cracks the code. But it's great for people that want to learn about radio frequency! Nice Video.
Looks like a cool device. The biggest advantage apoears to be a large bandwidth. I still prefer sdr dongles. Usually i know what im targeting and where to set my bandwidth. I use 2 rtl-sdrs to listen to my local county police using sdrtrunk. I also like the many software options and versatility of using a laptop.
I’ve been listening to a scanner since 1970 - mainly the Fire Dept. & Ambulance. Now - they are all Encrypted. I can still get the Fire Dispatcher here in Highlands County Florida but not the people they are calling. Just the dispatcher.. Back in NYS in 2014 - I heard “Everything” I had a great location and an incredible antenna. I could pick-up every firehouse in Monroe County (Rochester Area.)
Excellent product review.......even more AWESOME....OUTRO MUSIC! I think I heard this or a version very similiar to this on a Podrunner podcast from Steve Boyett...one of the high bpms to get your heart racing....anyway...thanks for all you do for the community.
Thank you for the run-down on this little device. I have seen it it a few other videos, but I think this one sold me. BTW, the music outtro was nice too!
It's a great analyzer BUT, it could have been much more if they would have added an external trigger. Since the analyzer has the ability to go Zero Hertz span, it could have been a great pulse analyzer as well.. So sad that they didn't include this, maybe they will roll that out in their next version. Until then, Ill wait for it.
@@flojotubenot realistically without the key. It could be done in theory, but it would take thousands, hundreds of thousands, or more likely, millions of years to hack it with current computing technology. If anything can do it, then the government will make sure you or I never find out about it and make damn sure it's never made available to the public.
@@flojotubeSo, the US military for example uses frequency hopping. So think of all radios having a key that knows the sequence of frequency change so they might use 111.223, 115.456, 112.675 and so on. Impossible to guess. Even if it wasn't encrypted you wouldn't be able to listen.
Our family had a large radio in the family room in the 70s and 80s that had ability to receive SW radio transmissions. I was able to connect an external antenna to it and listened to transmissions from far and wide.
I also found it quite fun to scan the 2.4ghz band and view wifi channels. you can add the max hold and view the channel bandwidth quite clearly. Also did it for the 5ghz wifi6 and can see the features such as OFDMA quite clearly, while it wasn't calibrated upto 6ghz, it was good enough to view the channels and actually see the data being transmitted in bursts across the allocated channel bandwidth.
Wel wel you have just changed my mind on buying one of these.Can you tell me which model you have cos there's so many to choose from.Great informative videos on radio
@@markmcsharr8777 Then it won't matter because your analyzer won't have anything to analyze. If it toasts your analyzer, it's gonna toast whatever you were trying to listen to, too.
Try looking around 20MHz. If I'm right the visiting ET scout craft in the 15 meter diameter size will have a main tone around 20MHz and complex upper harmonics. They use field propulsion instead of jets or rockets and it seems that part of that is electromagnetically activating the surface and at very significant power levels. Because even modest power radio travels very far these ET craft could be detectable at extreme distances when zipping about or in hover mode. They should be recognizable because the tone wont contain audio, video or digital. It should just be a very steady tone. With triangulation we could pinpoint them and determine speed. The frequency should strictly correspond to size of the craft.
Used to love my CB radio and Uniden Bearcat scanner. Youngsters these days think a scanner is just for uploading photos and documents, if they only knew lol
You say that like CBs and scanners etc aren't used anymore, they most definitely are here in the UK and everywhere else 🤷.. ok it's not like 30 years ago , but there's still a big active community 👍
Would this detect a radio remote control frequency? I was cheated by a rigged roulette wheel that has a radio remote control, and a guy who used to work there as a dealer, told me that they have 4 frequencies on the remote and 4 frets rigged with electromagnets. I'm looking for a device to detect those 4 radio frequencies and have a jammer made to jam them. Thanks for the great videos, you sound like an electronics genius.
Assuming it's an RF remote which you seem to already know, you'd just need to flood all frequencies which junk noise so they can't interact. Alternatively, just get a lot of copper wire, wrap it in a spool around a cylinder, put a battery in the cylinder, connect the ground side to negative & the positive to the positive terminal of the battery. Congratulations, you've made a pocket EMP. Just use as much wire as you can to make the emf noise as loud as possible, fit it into a backpack and connect it when you walk up to the wheel. (I am not a professional of any sort please do proper research before building emp devices, could be illegal in your area)
@@ithasnomen9253 Thank you my friend. You are more of a professional than me. A pocket EMP sounds like a good way to stop them from cheating. I'm assuming they're using a RF remote, because the guy said the pit bosses sometimes carry them in their pocket. He also said they can be in another room watching through cameras and using the remote. Thanks again
@icontrolmyownguns2096 No worries, good luck on your hack. Let me know how it goes, just be careful. A lot of important machines use RF to communicate, including stuff like pacemakers & insulin pumps. Too strong could be dangerous, too weak might not do anything. Best bet might be to make a weak one that you can put in a backpack, switch on and leave nearby the wheel. And of course check laws nearby you, some places really restrict your ability to play with RF.
Nice. I like it. however, where I am there would be just loads of wideband noise across a load of the RF spectrum. that's why I use magloop antennas. With my SDRdx, I can have up to 8 meg wide bandwidth but yoou loose so much detail with it that wide.
Wait till the find out that the SDR (Software Defined Radio) can not only receive but decode some of the 'encrypted' radio so you can listen to 'secret' transmissions!! And with the proper antenna, and internet access, you can track local aircraft flights, and identify the N numbers and other FAA 'secrets'!
@@jamiemoo2000 not encrypted...but it can decode digital modes, such as for aero purposes: ACARS and HFDL. There are others used by among others, the military, with ALE, that it can decode. It can decode trunked radio systems and enable you to listen to talkgroups....as long as they aren't encrypted. But there is plenty of digital traffic to enjoy. I've used it for quite a few, such as viewing imagery from the NOAA satellites, or ACARS from a geostationary satellite approx 10,000 miles away.
@@jamiemoo2000 I have done it on my own laptop and SDR, don't tell me it can't be done! Or are you one of 'those' who only has windows on their computer?
I love your channel, but was shocked at 5:23 when you said that "you're not technically allowed to listen to anything that isn't intended for your ears"? I guess that may be true in non-free countries like the UK, where the UK Gov imprisons more people every year for writing "unapproved words" like "non-hate related speech" on the internet than even Russia does. But in the US if an organization does not want you listening to their transmissions, it is THEIR responsibility to enact security measures, like encryption. But every citizen has the "Right to monitor" ANY radio frequency that travels through that person's property to ascertain that it is not harmful, or spurious"! God bless the true freedom of America! 73's
What’s with the clickbait, almost fear mongering thumbnail and title? It’s not like SDRs are some ‘secret’ “THEY” (whoever they are) don’t want you to know! Sorta gives the hobby a bad name.
I was into scanning way back in the early 2000. Now I have returned and regret selling all my CB and Radio scanners. But wow just look at how fast and how cheap everything is becoming and the hardest part is still learning the dam operating instructions for scanners :)
Re legality, I believe the wording is that, in the UK, you are only allowed to listen to transmissions *intended for general reception*. ie not 'private communications'. Therefore, scanning is legal prima facie. Further, as private communications eg government emergency services, cell phones etc are encrypted, there is nothing to which to listen, and you wouldn't even be able to determine that they are private communications.
I think that disclaimer about illegal listening is U.K. specific. I’ve owned scanners since I was a kid and so did my dad and uncles. Shortwave, police and fire frequency scanning was a hobby for us here in the U.S. I guess I took it for granted that the is was true in other countries.
WOW just like my NanoVNA I need one of these! My other three SDR's will be jealous of being neglected when I get one of these. Certainly better then my cell Phone OTG with a sdr and battery built into a old VHS Tape plasic case.
So, you could use this like a the old "frequecy counter", that instantly tells you a transmitter frequency in a local area. Ie. To find Bugs and now.. Blue Tooth trackers, and wireless cameras! Pretty handy mode in the Tiny SA, most people don't even know they have! 🔎
Just received my TinySA and love it. I worked for HP/ Agilent/ Keysight for almost 37 years on the test equipment side and I'm blown away by what your SA can do. It's quite easy to navigate and I do have a question though...I see a 3.5mm jack on the TinySA Ultra (which I do not have) but I do not see one on my unit. How do I listen to demodulated signals?
why I bought mine: when the OTA tv industry moved to digital TV back in 2009, TV stations were allowed to keep their channel number that was assigned back when a channel number was assigned to a specific 6 mhz band of frequencies. now, it is just a label. I have a CCTV system. 24 cameras, 4 each, on 6 DVRs. I put the output of these DVRs onto unused analog channels and distribute these through the house via a CATV system from a demolished apartment. problem: you can't tell if a channe; is set on a frequency used by a new user after the OTA channel moved out. The TVs are not capable of demodulating the unfamiliar signaL I use my tiny sa to determine if the anlog channel space is open before I set the channel in my Rf modulator, and avoid the aggravation caused by interference a secondary use is: take it to a truck stop to show CB users the actual effect of tweaking up a CB to put more fire in the wire. show that person that, in reality, there is more power going out, but not in the CB band where it belongs. think about this: do the golden screwdriver guys tell CB users to use bigger fuse, since they are inherently using more DC power to send more RF power?
I keyed my walkie talkie (5w) with the antenna on the Tiny unplugged. Not enough signal to damage the Tiny surely? Nope - I fried the signal generator (nothing on my oscilloscope), and the two receiver chips (crazy input noises). All that's left is the MCU and screen! lol. Don't Tx wattages near the Tiny! Even without an antenna. (I think the unshielded parts of the board acted as antennas through the plastic case... ooops) I later bought an attenuator.
If that little device is 100 pounds, that's quite a heavy device. And I am very impressed with your ability to whip that heavy object around so effortlessly 😂
Interesting video. I have an earlier version of the tiny SA. It doesn't have the bells and whistles yours does but it meets my needs. On the other hand I just replaced my nano VNA with a nano VNA-F and what a difference between the 2 units. Bigger screen, broader range up to 3 Ghz, and better user interface. Since I am an amateur licensee who like to experiment with antenna design it will come in handy. Back before I retired I worked in the defense industry I used HP VNAs and toward the end used an Agilent PNAx. This Nano VNA has a lot of the same functionality but at a fraction of the cost. Maybe you could do a video about it and how it is used in antenna analysis. 73 de N1ABE >>
That music was excellent! I'm a pirate, I'll listen to anything that comes in on my antenna. Great video.
I understand about 10% of what you are saying in this video but I understand 100% of your excitement. what can i say, I'm here for it.
You just won the internet for the day ... at least for me.
This video is made for people like you - Who understand no more than 10%. Those who understand more than 10% know that what he is saying and showing doesnt make much sense.
I thought you meant his accent at first, then realized technical stuff
I think most people, who own these Tiny SA gizmos, don't know what every feature is, or how to use them. They buy it for the one or two features they want to use it for, and thats all they every use it for! (Like tuning an antenna or checking spurious emmissions!)
In the mountains of western North America wildlife collars have largely transitioned to satellite, but many have retained dual capability wjth VHF for facilitating field use in real time as GPS data can be 6 hours old based on the upload interval (because uploads are hard on battery life). As most bears nowdays only receive a collar if they mis-behaved near town, now you have the potential to go for a backcountry hike and if you see some wildlife sign, switch on your Tiny SA and see if there are any potential bad actors in your vicinity.
I was a kid in the 70's and my father, who was a kid himself during WWII, brought out his old shortwave set. I'd spend hours listening to all sorts of broadcasts. It's been years since I've listened to one but this Tiny SA looks interesting. Perhaps Santa will bring me one . ;)
You could of course make a prayer ti Santa Maris - Santa Barbara - or a host of others.
However - there is a slight problem.
They can only communicate with the DEAD
You will thus have to wait a while until you meet the criteria
Hey Andy, we use these tiny SA's todo a quick check on LED light bars/Headlights at work - Most LED lights are very noisy due to the fast switching, It becomes a problem on a vehicles digital data packet receive . If we find a noisy lightbar/lamp it has to be uninstalled for safety. Awesome video - never thought to listen in! 73's
I bought a spectrum analyser for business use in 1984, which cost me £6500.00. The sort of stuff that is out there today is far more convenient and easy to use. The only advantage the forty year old stuff has is the front end attenuators and calibration, having said that, I've not used it in twenty years. For £77 I might just treat myself. Thanks for the video Andy.
The real spectrum analyzers can sweep much faster over a wider start/stop range especially if your using them for FCC compliance testing.
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Wow 6500 pounds could have bought a car back then!
You most definitely should imo ... Really cool to get your perspective ... As a mid 30s guy who's grown up and lived in the nyc metro area ... Super interesting to hear how the scene was during decades before my time and even more so from the other side of the pond.
If you will definitely be able to make use of it, I actually have this exact SA but I inadvertently ended up with 2 identical units after ordering one and 2 wks post estimated delivery date, I reported it not arriving and was sent a replacement which arrived via complimentary express delivery. Fast forward nearly 7-8 weeks, the original one arrived. I only opened it to confirm what it was but nothing beyond that and would love it to get into the hands of an active enthusiast. My dad and brother will be traveling to England in mid April for business, and I could have them ship it domestically within the UK to you. Im not big on selling stuff via eBay or Craigslist etc but with this sort of thing, gifting it to an internet stranger with an interesting anecdote sounds good to me lol. If interested, drop a reply and we can figure out via email.
I got one of these recently, and it's really amazing. It hurts my brain to even think about how this sweeps such a massive frequency range so quickly.
A digital frequency synthesizer.
The first SDRs were made from hacked digital TV receivers. They have been around since the late 1990s.
There is a tiny little man inside the box, running back and forth, super fast. Listening to everything, and he makes little marks on the screen! He is like a teeny tiny Flash!
Or its Magic!? 😅
It's the magic smoke @@chrissewell1608
Just love your approach to the radio hobby,You really are becoming the UKs number one go to guy. Thanks Andy.
Thank you mate, that's very kind.👍🏼
@@andykirby is there a way I can listen to the blocked cellphone frequencies ?
Just put your ear to the phone. seriously in the old analougue days you could hear a barrel load of fun.
The techno/EDM at 9:00 is pretty awesome too. ;)
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In the US you are allowed to listen to any signal on the spectrum. If its on the air, then its free for anyone to hear. If its encrypted, you are not allowed to try to dexrypt it though.
Trunkated?
Thanks for such a refreshing approach to radio mate. Amazing vid
Thanks mate! Appreciate that from the God of SWLing! More collabs to come!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
On the strength of this video I bought a tinySA.. then I discovered your CB content!!.. I remember walking off the mountain towards the Jamaican Inn in Cornwall, I could see my parents headlights in the pubs carpark but couldn't hear her whatsoever, then a kind chap from Scotland did a relay for us.. how weird the outer Atmosphere was that day, quite a epic relay.. I also have my radio licence but have not used it in years..
Fantastic video. Tuning in and listening to Supertramp was double icing on the cake!!! Thanks!
Looks like I've just found my Christmas present to myself 😂. I've had a tiny SA for quite a while. Amazing bit of kit!! This updated version should be a very nice addition to the shack.
It is. Can measure up to 20GHz in Ultra mode. Just as a frequency counter this is a winner for it's price tag.
Garbage
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Breaks if you breathe on it wrong.
Garbage.
You are full of it.
Device is a cheap, over priced, worthless toy.
Garbage!
Speaking of a "Shack" have y'all heard that Radio Shack is coming back?
Great fun, Andy! Nice in conjunction with an airband receiver, for example. So many toys, so little time 😂
3 minutes into the video and I was already sold! I have other versions of the TinySA but had no idea about the Ultra, can't wait!
Which one is the best model??
With a directional beam antenna this would be the top rig for Fox Hunting. Also finding QRM causing problems in your station. It can show you harmonics and more. I found a problem that was wiping out my HF station. It turned out to be the "Wall Wart" PS that charges my Apple laptop. When I located it I unplugged it and the S meter went from 7-9 down to 1-2 and stations started coming in. Use one to locate a miss placed Bluetooth device "if it is on and charged" or a cell phone if it has the WiFi turned on. 73s
I'm thinking the same thing. It's too cold to mess with it right now but I hope to try it out very soon. I'm wondering about the range...
Listening to the police / emergency services analogue mobile phones in the 80's and 90's 👍👊
Until digital services killed everything 😢
Yeah DECT Cordless Phones and the Tetra Airwave Network with its encryption.
@@jamiemoo2000 Everything is going digital and encrypted now.
Very useful indeed. Just bought one myself and will be receiving it tomorrow :)
The TinySA is awesome. A bench spectrum analyzer is really out of financial reach. And? Portable, NOT! It really lets you explore your World. I noticed door burgler alarm system, even my key fobs. Great to find noise, just use a portable AM transistor radio to "steer" you by nulling, and then get close with the NanoVNA. Did you know it's ALSO an RF Generator? Yep! The NanoVNA (and the TinyVNA and the RTL-SDR as well!!!) Are GAME CHANGERS. As are our modern scopes. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL
Great video, a couple of tips for you (and others).... these things are super sensitive to front end blow out when hooking up an outside antenna that may have static build up, suggest grounding your antenna center conductor to ground prior to hooking up to the Ultra.. also, suggest swapping out that SO-239/SMA adapter to a pigtail of the same genders, hanging that heavy adapter AND the cable and it's PL-259 off the SMA is asking for a snapped SMA. Also, I'd be a bit more careful about keying up a portable like you did the Icom so close to the unit, same reasons, you'll blow out the front end, especially in light of the fact I didn't see you turn off the LNA.. sure, you may be on an external antenna but that's a plastic case and you don't have any attenuation inline if it also came down the coax... thanks for the great video....
I was going to give the same caution of moving the coax cable and potentially damaging the antenna connection on the printed circuit board.
Smart minds think alike... LOL 73 @@W8RIT1
@Jennifer-007 Thanks for the great insights! I am a beginner... would be this device better for listening to interesting foreign radio stations than a regular radio, like a Tecsun? I do not want to spend a lot of money, but would like to have a nice device to listen for the whole spectrum, anything radio :)
Belka Dx, table top performance in your pocket, about £150 from Alex the maker in Belarus.
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@@webanon Thanks, just bought one a since :)
Great track at the end! Super big trance sound love it Andy!
This is really interesting, my hobby is metal detecting, and metal detectors run from 4KHz to 80KHz, depending on the machine. If you had a display like the TinySA. You could get a better picture of what is in the ground. Thanks.
so am i - ive a deus - could you explain how you would use it in connection with a metal detector?
I would think that a LCD display would be already offered on metal detectors which indicate certain frequency peaks.
Yes and no! metal detectors cost between £200 to £7000. Not £100 for an excellent graph.
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A graph that clearly shows where the iron/gold signals are, those iffy signals would become more clear.@@RMcGivern
I want to start doing that but its expensive to get started, I have a good job but I swear everyone is wealthy but me is what it seems like online real life is differnet
As an American watching this video,I had to laugh when you said 'tiny one hundred pound device' as a picture of a small but massively heavy thing flashed in my mind. We are so old fashioned. LOL Seriously,this seems an awesome little device to have ,just for hobby fun.
Another American here. I mean, were you born yesterday?
@@ChatGPT1111as I’m also 🇺🇸. Do you not understand sarcasm?
@@hondaxl250k0 Do you not understand a joke that went out with the dinosaurs? The red coats called. They want their colonies back 🤣
@@ChatGPT1111 that’s not so funny…. You think the uk globalist don’t want the USA ? Why do you think joe Biden is destroying this country as fast as possible.. who do you think these scum work for? Your daft.
Hi Andy. Thank you for all the videos you have made for us. 🙏 I have the "imposed" question... is it possible to differentiate ssb? Thanks in advance. 🙏
Excellent content Andy. We love your presentation style.
Best get him in the shop doing some reviews
Apart from picking up noise from a neighbour’s inverter and making him feel really guilty. 😂 I have only used mine for working on radios…obviously there’s endless possibilities with these...Thanks for the Video Andy.
Only goes to 960 MHZ. Thats why its so cheap. Push it up to 5 GHz and its a whole different game. I remember listening to phone calls on my Radio shack scanner back in the late 90s in the 900 Mhz band. Cell phones quickly moved up higher and fixed intercept capabilities. Newt Gingrich's intercepted phone call help seal that!
This is the SAultra and it goes up to 6Ghz
Most scanners front ends were so cheaply made you didn't need 900MHz to listen to cellular. Just tuning through 400MHz and upwards would allow you to listen to cellular.
Incidentally, I was asked to move on when I was auditing freqs from a football club. The massive spike I saw on the screen was the security bloke calling his boss to say there was a bloke with something outside the gate. On being approached he asked me to step over the building line as I was bringing the club into disrepute. My reply asked if that was the same level of disrepute the supporters curried when they lost the game? I stood the other side of the non existent building line for 15m and then left. The bloke was vacuous and did not understand my explanation of what I was showing him.
Thanks. As Radio Amateurs, you and I would use it for monitoring our signals for spurious transmissions. Perfectly legitimate, and pretty much mandatory from a licensing viewpoint. .
I've got something very similar. It's just amazing. If you string up a long wire ariel up in the garden, you'll be blown away with what you can hear. It's a hobby just on its own.
This is good these days for entertaintment only. I'm in the US and wish I had this back in the 90's when I installed and repaired RF equipment for a communications company mainly for police, fire, and ems. Now in many states and mine the RF is digitally scrammbled for local police "Due to the bad guys" ruining it for the good citizens but what else can we do until somebody cracks the code. But it's great for people that want to learn about radio frequency! Nice Video.
So, other than criminal activities, I find these Tiny SA's pretty handy for Ham use!
these are cool, TheSmokiinApe uploaded a video explaining how you calibrate one and change settings allowing frequencies up to 6G !! 👍
How low can you go? I'm searching for something for 1-20 hz....
@dennistate5953
These don't go that low. You need an audio spectrometer for that.
@@BradKwfc thank you!
Outstanding! I concur with the presenter. Thank you for putting it on the radar.
I needed one of these about 20 years ago.
too late eh amigo?
Every time your videos end now, I want to get completely off my box.... Love the Trance!
Who doesn't want me to know what? 10 minutes gone and I still don't know.
They don't want you to know...
Typical click bait thumbnail
THEY, can't you hear.
😂😂😂
I don’t want you to know that I have small penis energy.
Looks like a cool device. The biggest advantage apoears to be a large bandwidth. I still prefer sdr dongles. Usually i know what im targeting and where to set my bandwidth. I use 2 rtl-sdrs to listen to my local county police using sdrtrunk. I also like the many software options and versatility of using a laptop.
Supertramp was awesome
i like the trance outro haha, i was like where did these pleasant good vibes come from? Thanks for showing us this cool tech!
these days with SDR's we can indeed pickup many different frequencies, BUT the most interesting are ENCRYPTED!
I’ve been listening to a scanner since 1970 - mainly the Fire Dept. & Ambulance. Now - they are all Encrypted. I can still get the Fire Dispatcher here in Highlands County Florida but not the people they are calling. Just the dispatcher.. Back in NYS in 2014 - I heard “Everything” I had a great location and an incredible antenna. I could pick-up every firehouse in Monroe County (Rochester Area.)
Can't believe you added over two minutes of just music to the end of your video! The Tiny SA Ultra is great.
100 pounds??? How could that little thing be so heavy???
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Excellent product review.......even more AWESOME....OUTRO MUSIC! I think I heard this or a version very similiar to this on a Podrunner podcast from Steve Boyett...one of the high bpms to get your heart racing....anyway...thanks for all you do for the community.
Top bit of kit and a belting tune, pal 😎👍🏻
Thank you for the run-down on this little device. I have seen it it a few other videos, but I think this one sold me. BTW, the music outtro was nice too!
Where can I get my hands on this babe thanks in advance for any help😊.?
It's a great analyzer BUT, it could have been much more if they would have added an external trigger. Since the analyzer has the ability to go Zero Hertz span, it could have been a great pulse analyzer as well.. So sad that they didn't include this, maybe they will roll that out in their next version. Until then, Ill wait for it.
I got mine about 8 months ago. And found it to be a really fun toy to play with.
I wait till china produces devices that automatically decrypts encrypted radio signals! 😂
They don’t have it mass produced yet?! TF!
is there NO WAY to listen in on encrypted radio broadcasts at all?
@@flojotubenot realistically without the key. It could be done in theory, but it would take thousands, hundreds of thousands, or more likely, millions of years to hack it with current computing technology. If anything can do it, then the government will make sure you or I never find out about it and make damn sure it's never made available to the public.
@@flojotube
It is possible. It only depends on the technical effort and you need experts for that. Currently it's not possible for layman.
@@flojotubeSo, the US military for example uses frequency hopping. So think of all radios having a key that knows the sequence of frequency change so they might use 111.223, 115.456, 112.675 and so on. Impossible to guess. Even if it wasn't encrypted you wouldn't be able to listen.
Our family had a large radio in the family room in the 70s and 80s that had ability to receive SW radio transmissions. I was able to connect an external antenna to it and listened to transmissions from far and wide.
I also found it quite fun to scan the 2.4ghz band and view wifi channels. you can add the max hold and view the channel bandwidth quite clearly.
Also did it for the 5ghz wifi6 and can see the features such as OFDMA quite clearly, while it wasn't calibrated upto 6ghz, it was good enough to view the channels and actually see the data being transmitted in bursts across the allocated channel bandwidth.
2.4 huh..
Wel wel you have just changed my mind on buying one of these.Can you tell me which model you have cos there's so many to choose from.Great informative videos on radio
Amazing bit of kit, an apocalyptic prepper must have
😂🤔depends what if it's a solar flare or EMP 😅
@@markmcsharr8777encapsulated in lead /faraday cage will fix that
@@markmcsharr8777 Then it won't matter because your analyzer won't have anything to analyze. If it toasts your analyzer, it's gonna toast whatever you were trying to listen to, too.
Try looking around 20MHz. If I'm right the visiting ET scout craft in the 15 meter diameter size will have a main tone around 20MHz and complex upper harmonics. They use field propulsion instead of jets or rockets and it seems that part of that is electromagnetically activating the surface and at very significant power levels. Because even modest power radio travels very far these ET craft could be detectable at extreme distances when zipping about or in hover mode. They should be recognizable because the tone wont contain audio, video or digital. It should just be a very steady tone. With triangulation we could pinpoint them and determine speed. The frequency should strictly correspond to size of the craft.
Used to love my CB radio and Uniden Bearcat scanner. Youngsters these days think a scanner is just for uploading photos and documents, if they only knew lol
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON HAVING A POLICE SCANNER AND C B
RADIO.
You say that like CBs and scanners etc aren't used anymore, they most definitely are here in the UK and everywhere else 🤷.. ok it's not like 30 years ago , but there's still a big active community 👍
@@RobBob555where did I say that?
Andy....YOU are a live wire !
Thanks. This is fun !
(Well. Specially after you've described it)
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The screen is active while scanning. instead of using the rocker knob just use a stylus and drag the "1" Marker left and right quicly!
Very interesting as usual, love the ending track, on my sixth listen. Love it, makes me want to get the “E’s” out
The things you do to listen to a bit of Supertramp 😅
Even in the Quietest Moments
Come for the instructions... stayed for the Techno! Great job!
Would this detect a radio remote control frequency? I was cheated by a rigged roulette wheel that has a radio remote control, and a guy who used to work there as a dealer, told me that they have 4 frequencies on the remote and 4 frets rigged with electromagnets. I'm looking for a device to detect those 4 radio frequencies and have a jammer made to jam them. Thanks for the great videos, you sound like an electronics genius.
Assuming it's an RF remote which you seem to already know, you'd just need to flood all frequencies which junk noise so they can't interact. Alternatively, just get a lot of copper wire, wrap it in a spool around a cylinder, put a battery in the cylinder, connect the ground side to negative & the positive to the positive terminal of the battery. Congratulations, you've made a pocket EMP. Just use as much wire as you can to make the emf noise as loud as possible, fit it into a backpack and connect it when you walk up to the wheel. (I am not a professional of any sort please do proper research before building emp devices, could be illegal in your area)
@@ithasnomen9253 Thank you my friend. You are more of a professional than me. A pocket EMP sounds like a good way to stop them from cheating. I'm assuming they're using a RF remote, because the guy said the pit bosses sometimes carry them in their pocket. He also said they can be in another room watching through cameras and using the remote. Thanks again
@icontrolmyownguns2096 No worries, good luck on your hack. Let me know how it goes, just be careful. A lot of important machines use RF to communicate, including stuff like pacemakers & insulin pumps. Too strong could be dangerous, too weak might not do anything. Best bet might be to make a weak one that you can put in a backpack, switch on and leave nearby the wheel. And of course check laws nearby you, some places really restrict your ability to play with RF.
That was a nice one Andy. Very useful to find stationes. The best from LB1NH 🙂
Recyving stations is not prohibited in the netherlands, Everything in the air is free to listen to.
Enjoyed the video, I just got something similar to play with. Pleased that you are recently doing a bit more radio stuff again,thanks!
You sold them out! Currently unavailable! 😭
Nice. I like it.
however, where I am there would be just loads of wideband noise across a load of the RF spectrum.
that's why I use magloop antennas.
With my SDRdx, I can have up to 8 meg wide bandwidth but yoou loose so much detail with it that wide.
Wait till the find out that the SDR (Software Defined Radio) can not only receive but decode some of the 'encrypted' radio so you can listen to 'secret' transmissions!!
And with the proper antenna, and internet access, you can track local aircraft flights, and identify the N numbers and other FAA 'secrets'!
An SDR won't decode encrypted Radio Traffic
@@jamiemoo2000 No, but the software can be added to the operating system, and THAT is what can decrypt the traffic.
@@jamiemoo2000 not encrypted...but it can decode digital modes, such as for aero purposes: ACARS and HFDL. There are others used by among others, the military, with ALE, that it can decode.
It can decode trunked radio systems and enable you to listen to talkgroups....as long as they aren't encrypted. But there is plenty of digital traffic to enjoy. I've used it for quite a few, such as viewing imagery from the NOAA satellites, or ACARS from a geostationary satellite approx 10,000 miles away.
@@jeffreyyoung4104 no it cannot, give me an example then of what can be decrypted with an SDR with whatever add on.
@@jamiemoo2000 I have done it on my own laptop and SDR, don't tell me it can't be done! Or are you one of 'those' who only has windows on their computer?
Awesome video. I happen to have one in the mail, it should arrive tomorrow, cant wait to try it out!👍🍻🤠🇦🇺
Where did you get it from?
QSL Comms in Queansland.😊
Thank you!@@DonzLockz
Can this detect police radar in cars
Thanks for bringing this to my attention seen a nice little device pretty useful
I love your channel, but was shocked at 5:23 when you said that "you're not technically allowed to listen to anything that isn't intended for your ears"? I guess that may be true in non-free countries like the UK, where the UK Gov imprisons more people every year for writing "unapproved words" like "non-hate related speech" on the internet than even Russia does. But in the US if an organization does not want you listening to their transmissions, it is THEIR responsibility to enact security measures, like encryption. But every citizen has the "Right to monitor" ANY radio frequency that travels through that person's property to ascertain that it is not harmful, or spurious"! God bless the true freedom of America! 73's
Who are 'they', who don't want you to know this?
Government. Illuminati. Deep state. Pick your poison
probably the humans that claim to have the divine right to control which other humans use the air to send signals.
The man, man. With a capital M.
They is who ever they are .
Andy been listening to you fora very long time your priceless Waynex
Looks like the display refresh is pretty slow. Might be nice for portability but I’ll stick with my $20 SDR dongle for now.
Amazing! Thanks for doing the demo- Have a Happy Thanksgiving, 21 S.C. South Carolina
The Kenwood receives 1000 times better than the SA....😂
But if you do a lot of training, you can use both for reception (not interception😂)
Which Kenwood in particular? I seriously gotta buy something like this and don't want to have buyers remorse. lol
@@brazoon1
The Kenwood TH-F7 is great:
LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF until 1300 MHz
AM, NFM, WFM, (and USB, LSB, CW until 470 MHz) !!!!!
@@jplacido9999 Ah, I see. That's a neat little radio!
@@brazoon1
Yes it is 😊👍
I carry it with me all the time....(for decades, now...)
300 pounds UK price.. yum yum
I got one of these (different name, same device) for Christmas a couple years ago and it is awesome.
What’s with the clickbait, almost fear mongering thumbnail and title? It’s not like SDRs are some ‘secret’ “THEY” (whoever they are) don’t want you to know!
Sorta gives the hobby a bad name.
Sounds like something a fed would say.
*sort of
Relax...
Where are you getting them for 100 quid Andy even on Ali they are more than that. If it's 100 take my money 😂
@@ianevans67I just saw one on Ali for 51 with free shipping
I was into scanning way back in the early 2000. Now I have returned and regret selling all my CB and Radio scanners. But wow just look at how fast and how cheap everything is becoming and the hardest part is still learning the dam operating instructions for scanners :)
Great video Andy 👍🏻👍🏻
You sure have some in depth knowledge and skills in this subject Andy very interesting to watch & learn
Re legality, I believe the wording is that, in the UK, you are only allowed to listen to transmissions *intended for general reception*. ie not 'private communications'.
Therefore, scanning is legal prima facie. Further, as private communications eg government emergency services, cell phones etc are encrypted, there is nothing to which to listen, and you wouldn't even be able to determine that they are private communications.
Id love it if you could do videos on projects about how to use this, including scanning for hidden listening or viewing devices.
Go below 300hz and you will find your ansers for hidden things.
I think that disclaimer about illegal listening is U.K. specific. I’ve owned scanners since I was a kid and so did my dad and uncles. Shortwave, police and fire frequency scanning was a hobby for us here in the U.S. I guess I took it for granted that the is was true in other countries.
This little tinySa Ultra is amazing I need to grab me one
you are getting so excited Andy.
WOW just like my NanoVNA I need one of these! My other three SDR's will be jealous of being neglected when I get one of these. Certainly better then my cell Phone OTG with a sdr and battery built into a old VHS Tape plasic case.
Hi I'm waiting for my SA Mini To arrive.
But thanks Andy for the video Very useful. Geff.👍
I remember the days of being able to listen to emergency services on a NORMAL radio receiver back in the 1980s. Now it's encrypted.
So, you could use this like a the old "frequecy counter", that instantly tells you a transmitter frequency in a local area. Ie. To find Bugs and now.. Blue Tooth trackers, and wireless cameras!
Pretty handy mode in the Tiny SA, most people don't even know they have! 🔎
Oh man, the music is a banger!!! It gave me Armin Van Buuren vibes! Enjoyed it!
If you can receive it, you can listen to it. There is no law that says otherwise.
i Live in NYC where they started to encrypt radios, but this would still be useful to me , def buying
Just received my TinySA and love it. I worked for HP/ Agilent/ Keysight for almost 37 years on the test equipment side and I'm blown away by what your SA can do. It's quite easy to navigate and I do have a question though...I see a 3.5mm jack on the TinySA Ultra (which I do not have) but I do not see one on my unit. How do I listen to demodulated signals?
The 'Ultra' model has the audio jack
When are you going to do videos on the new h4m and exactly what it can do?
why I bought mine: when the OTA tv industry moved to digital TV back in 2009, TV stations were allowed to keep their channel number that was assigned back when a channel number was assigned to a specific 6 mhz band of frequencies. now, it is just a label.
I have a CCTV system. 24 cameras, 4 each, on 6 DVRs. I put the output of these DVRs onto unused analog channels and distribute these through the house via a CATV system from a demolished apartment.
problem: you can't tell if a channe; is set on a frequency used by a new user after the OTA channel moved out. The TVs are not capable of demodulating the unfamiliar signaL
I use my tiny sa to determine if the anlog channel space is open before I set the channel in my Rf modulator, and avoid the aggravation caused by interference
a secondary use is: take it to a truck stop to show CB users the actual effect of tweaking up a CB to put more fire in the wire. show that person that, in reality, there is more power going out, but not in the CB band where it belongs. think about this: do the golden screwdriver guys tell CB users to use bigger fuse, since they are inherently using more DC power to send more RF power?
Glad I found this channel. Always good content and entertaining. Keep up the great work. 73.
Thank you 😁👍🏼
Just reading the comment listening to the outro music 🔥
I keyed my walkie talkie (5w) with the antenna on the Tiny unplugged. Not enough signal to damage the Tiny surely? Nope - I fried the signal generator (nothing on my oscilloscope), and the two receiver chips (crazy input noises). All that's left is the MCU and screen! lol. Don't Tx wattages near the Tiny! Even without an antenna. (I think the unshielded parts of the board acted as antennas through the plastic case... ooops) I later bought an attenuator.
If that little device is 100 pounds, that's quite a heavy device. And I am very impressed with your ability to whip that heavy object around so effortlessly 😂
Pounds Stirling!
@@iamrocketray I know! 😂
Interesting video. I have an earlier version of the tiny SA. It doesn't have the bells and whistles yours does but it meets my needs. On the other hand I just replaced my nano VNA with a nano VNA-F and what a difference between the 2 units. Bigger screen, broader range up to 3 Ghz, and better user interface. Since I am an amateur licensee who like to experiment with antenna design it will come in handy. Back before I retired I worked in the defense industry I used HP VNAs and toward the end used an Agilent PNAx. This Nano VNA has a lot of the same functionality but at a fraction of the cost. Maybe you could do a video about it and how it is used in antenna analysis. 73 de N1ABE >>
This is a spectrum analyzer, not a vector network analyzer.