I wanted to use my new rtl-sdr I got for Christmas on the 40m band (using my dipole). But I was worried about what noise I might get in there, so I decided I'd make a band pass filter. I used this design from ARRL. I put it in a little hexagon box some sort of soap came in. Possibly not the best idea - it was kind of hard to get the BNC connections is, but it worked out. I measured it with the nanoVNA, and it looked like a band pass filter, so that is good. I'm not sure I've calibrated anything else, as it looks like there is a lot of insertion loss that I don't really think is there. Will need to look into that.
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