I Broke My HackRF Portapack! Here's How Not to

Video Description

The HackRF Portapack is a handheld SDR transceiver, capable of manipulating radio waves, decoding digital signals and giving you an insight into the invisible electromagnetic world around us. It does however suffer from a huge flaw, that can render it apparently completely unable of receiving anything. Also learn how to use the gains settings LNA, VGA and Amp on your HackRF Portapack. The Clifford Heath edition of the HackRF Portapack, which is shown in this video, has been provided to me for free by OpenSourceSDR Lab. Buy the new HackRF Portapack H4M here: https://opensourcesdrlab.com/products/h4m-receiver-and-spectrum-analyzer Get the latest Mayhem firmware for Portapack here: https://github.com/portapack-mayhem/mayhem-firmware 0:00 Intro 0:44 LNA, VGA and Amp gains 2:17 RX Saturation tip 2:56 The amp is the big problem 3:42 How to check if your amp is fried 4:30 How to avoid your amp breaking 5:14 The solution? 6:24 The Clifford Heath edition of HackRF 7:35 Outro