Nooelec NESDR Mini USB RTL-SDR & ADS-B Receiver Set, RTL2832U & R820T Tuner, MCX Input. Low-Cost Software Defined Radio Compatible with Many SDR Software Packages. R820T Tuner & ESD-Safe Antenna Input
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Features
- Included: Nooelec USB dongle & antenna
- RTL2832U interface IC & R820T tuner IC on USB dongle
- These are custom USB devices tuned for SDR and include much better components than generics
- Full 1-year warranty & installation support available!
Description
The perfect device for learning software defined radio, on the cheap. Amateur radio, ADS-B, police & fire scanning, trunking, satellite images--you name it, this little guy can probably do it. Outperforms many devices 10x its cost! These units are based on the R820T tuner IC made by Rafael Micro. As such, they have a frequency capability of approximately 27MHz-1700MHz, though this can vary somewhat from unit to unit. There is also an RTL2832U IC on board of course, which acts as the demodulator and USB interface. The connector type on the antenna and USB board is MCX--male MCX on the antenna, female MCX on the SDR. We perform extensive QA on every batch sold. As with all our SDRs, we guarantee antenna protection will be present so that your new investment will not be quickly destroyed by spurious ESD. SOFTWARE DETAILSFull compatibility with a large array of software packages, such as MATLAB, HDSDR, SDR Touch, SDR, Planeplotter--too many to list. MathWorks and Nooelec have coordinated to bring MATLAB support for our SDR receivers. The RTL-SDR radio support package enables you to design wireless receivers using real world signals. Using Communications System Toolbox in conjunction with an RTL-SDR USB radio, you can design and prototype systems that process real-time wireless signals in MATLAB and Simulink.
Compatible Devices: Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone
Connector Type: Mini USB
Brand: NooElec
Connectivity Technology: USB
Color: Black
Brand: NooElec
UPC: 616469145598 616469145710
Number of Packs: 1
Manufacturer: Nooelec Inc.
Number of Items: 1
Item Weight: 66 g
Model Number: NESDR Mini
Mfr Part Number: 100556
Compatible Devices: Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone
Connector Type: Mini USB
Connectivity Technology: USB
AntennaDescription: Radio
Tuner Type: ads-b,satellite
Color: Black
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Top Amazon Reviews
I've never been all that interested in radio, or spending any money on it, but when I saw a video describing these $20 RealTek chipset based dongles and how they could be used for SDR and radio spectrograph type applications, I was like "For $20? Count me in!" Like most people I'm using SDR# and not any of the vendor's drivers. The thing that took me a little while to figure out was that the USB drivers for this thing have to be installed manually. (There's absolutely no "plug and play" support for this thing at all, because the driver used by SDR# is a very generic low-level USB driver that is only designed to allow applications to essentially talk directly to just about any USB device supporting some serial protocol.) The easiest way to get this working is to download sdr-install.zip from the SDR# web site, extract it, and run the install script that will download everything you need including zadig (the generic USB driver installer), the RTL chipset plugin for SDR#, and SDR# itself. Before running SDR# you need to run zadig.exe and use it to install the driver. This requires that you select "show all devices" from the Options menu, select your RTL dongle from the pop-up menu, and tell it to install/reinstall the WinUSB driver for that device. Be careful to select your RTL dongle before hitting install or you may accidentally install this over your mouse driver or some other device. (Like I say, this is a generic driver that installs a really basic software interface for any USB device that supports certain attributes, so there's nothing to stop you from overwriting one of the other drivers on your system if you select the wrong device.) Once the WinUSB driver is installed you can just run SDR#, select the RTL device as the input, and hit play. Tip: I'd recommend turning on the auto gain check box for the tuner ("Tuner AGC") in the configuration panel though, unless you want to mess with the manual RF Gain control. (I was able to do pretty well just using the auto gain, but before I enabled the auto gain every signal I was getting was very weak. So you really need some sort of gain adjustment be it manual or auto.) Without much effort and using only the little included antenna I was able to pick up NOAA weather radio (narrowband FM), a number of commercial FM radio stations (wideband FM), the wideband FM transmission from a Sennheiser RS110 926MHz analog wireless headphone transmitter, and see a bunch of other signals on the spectrograph that I didn't recognize. I was also able to pick up 2 or 3 ADS-B transmissions from commercial airplanes, even though I was sitting in my basement and using only the included antenna, though all of these airplanes were within the line of sight angle provided by the window in the room I was in. So this tuner seems to be good for ADS-B, but obviously you're going to need an unobstructed outdoor antenna of some sort to receive signals from all directions. The remote control that comes with the dongle seems to be totally useless since it appears to be an IR device and I don't see how a computer can even receive a signal from it without a separate IR receiver device. (The NooElec dongle doesn't appear to have an IR receiver on it, but I could be wrong.) In any case it would require either the vendor's DTV software or some other software to make any use of it, and I don't know of anyone who's written anything useful that it can be used with. At some point I'll probably buy a MCX to some sort of coax adapter and wire up a proper antenna for it outside, but for now I'm just messing with the cheapo little included antenna. It seems to work better than I expected. Anyway, this is the most interesting $20 gadget that I've bought in a long time. I suspect that one day it will come in handy for helping to locate and rectify sources of radio interference.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2014 by Omega Man
Works as advertised. You must utilize a program on your computer and it will work with other programs on the market. Initial antenna will recieve a wide rand of signal but the type of antenna used will be detrimental to your recieved signal.
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2026 by Joltinjays LLC
I have been a ham radio operator for 45 years. Worked in the radio electronic business for about the same. Used lots of equipment, all high performance. So don't expect lab grade performance, but you can expect usable performance. Most of the trouble other users seem to be having is with drivers and software. So did I. The NooElec recommended stuff (cube something) didn't work well at all for me. My laptop CPU usage maxed out and never caught up, So went to hunting for something better. Tried SDR# but couldn't down load. Their webpage was broken. I did a DL from a mirror site and had nearly the same trouble. Next was HDSDR, that worked once I got the proper DLL for it and only used about 20% of CPU time. The learning curve for the software was steep, but worth it. Been using it for the last 4 days with little trouble. This RTL-SDR worked about like I expected, tuning range was as advertised, 24MHz - 1700MHz. Sensitivity was fair and usable. Receive frequency accuracy wasn't the best, had to apply +37ppm correction, HDSDR made that easy. But that's normal for the sort of crystal oscillator these use. If the gain isn't set carefully it will overload (gain compress) when strong signals come in, but again, that's normal. The included antenna is just a UHF band 1/4 wavelength magnet mount and is good for starting out. Next step up can be a homemade antenna or simple DTV antenna. Getting the antenna up high helps the range. As I scanned the frequencies, I found my computer was sending out lots of weak signals down below 50MHz. Again a normal problem. So, conclusion - the NESDR did what it said it would. But getting good software running with it is vital. HDSDR does that.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2016 by Amazon Customer
What can I say that others have not.... Now for less than $25.00 one can purchase a receiver/N00Elec TV28T v2 USB that offers the opportunity to explore frequencies in many ways as has been mentioned in the many other reviews HERE AND THERE from 50MHZ to 1.9GHZ plus or minus . Keeping in mind that this is leading age technology and software development is in its genesis one can with a good amount of patience and just a average amount of research explore what use to be much more costly. The experience for me is something like the offering of the baofeng uv-5r transceiver for the first time. The word I am looking for is unusually cheap, lots of possibilities and somewhat complicated. The unit comes with no software or drivers as mentioned on the sellers web site......NOOELEC however offers options on it's web site.. This is where the complication begins. I learned the hard way that the installation of the various software packages available and needed drivers can consume a good amount of time and patience in many cases. Many people experience many different issues so one needs to pick through the many sources to resolve a particular issue. Sometimes just one tiny error in the set up process can keep you from getting off the ground. To keep it short about this issue ... The antenna that comes with this receiver is as many have mentioned for moderately strong signals so no surprise here.. I like to refer to it as a stubby type antenna for short range capability. Understand what a type MCX antenna connector is and you will know what to do... enough said THIS IS THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE I CAN OFFER. IF YOU FINALLY GIVE UP OR ARE PULLING YOUR HAIR OUT TO GET YOUR DRIVERS/SOFTWARE LOADED THIER IS HELP! THIS GUY HAS HELPED COUNTLESS PEOPLE SOLVE THIER PROBLEMS, WILL EVEN REMOTE TO YOUR COMPUTER AND DO IT ALL FOR YOU... that WORKED FOR ME...HE DOES THIS FOR FREE BUT PLEASE ALWAYS DONATE SOMETHING FOR HIS TIME AND DON'T BE SQUARE. He has a web site and is a very honest man. just *Google* his name.... MIKE XENO... and understand. that's it... I am enjoying my scanning now thanks to mike.. He knows it all in my opinion. If that is possible I HAVE OBSERVED MANY COMPLAINTS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN RESOLVED BY SIMPLY READING THE REVIEWS HERE.. I am buying several more of these. LIFE IS GOOD 1/18/14 Wow decided to check it down to 25mhz and it picks up signals as good as my 10/11 meter mobile.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014 by Amazon Customer
It works for the most part, but for whatever reason, these are shipped to work as TV tuners out of the box, not SDR. This would be fine if the support for Linux was worth anything. The email they send you on how to swap out the drivers are outdated, for both the Ubuntu version (listed as 17.04, vs current which is 20.04) but it isn’t even for the right product either. I was personally hoping to listen to amateur radio frequencies on this, but the complete lack of documentation made this venture impossible. I can at least listen to Low Frequency radio stations though (think of what you might hear in your car’s radio), so the product isn’t completely useless. The support was friendly at the very least, and this thing is inexpensive. While it isn’t a very practical device in any real way outside of how compact it is, you can at least learn how SDR works with it then move on to something better if you can. If you’re a Linux user, I hope you’re advanced. Novices like me won’t get much out of this one.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021 by Max
Headline says it all... ordered 2 for 2 separate rigs, both had the same offset of 15ppm to dial in, and drift is running at +0.01/0.02 to -0.01/-0.02ppm. I would suggest getting a usb extension cable to move it away from other electronics, as they do receive signals pretty good. Had one fairly close to a tv, and learned I'm going to need a new tv soon..(I noticed some interference when adjusting the tv volume. Gotta love the waterfall in those sdr programs!) So far, these two are working flawlessly! Reception for sdr use? I can't complain. The offset is real close to the mark, and drift is very tight. Much better than some of the other rtl sticks of the same style I have tried! Running them on 6' usb 2.0 extension cables. They run a little warm, but nothing at all drastic. About as expected, and comparable to any other rtl usb stick, as far as the temperature goes... As with any radio signal receiver, the better the antenna, the better the reception, but the included antenna seems to work just fine for general use. Everything seems to be of decent quality, so I would say, you would be happy with the purchase. Both of mine shipped from 2 different locations, and both are pretty identical in every way. I'd have to give the quality control in production a thumbs up! For use as a cheap scanner, the supplied antenna works fine(depending on your location and surroundings you mileage may vary), ADSB, ACARS, no problem, FM reception is great, if you want to do other things such as listening to HAM bands and such, I'm sure you "could" with the supplied antenna (given the right conditions) , but I would recommend getting the proper antenna for the frequency range you plan to operate it in. The proper antenna for your use, makes a world of difference. Once you dial in the offset, and use the correct antenna for your application, you shouldn't have any problem. I can't stress that enough, not all antennas are created equal. Aside from the proper antenna for your application, would be placement.....Higher the better, more unobstructed the better. Now, enough with this gibber jabber... I'm going to go play with my new toys some more!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2021 by randy l.
I know NOTHING about SDR and its function in the world. But I DO know that I love tracking aircraft online and the best way to get into that is with the SDR in this product. I loaded the OS I needed on my Raspberry Pi and plugged this little fella in and tada(!), I am tracking all the aircraft within 60 nautical miles of my home! It does exactly what I need it for and I can't be happier - seems to be a high quality construction and certainly has worked fine from the moment I plugged it in. I do worry about anything that has to be attached via USB permanently, but put it in a place where it won't be accidently hit and you're good to go.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2025 by Lazarus0000
This about one of the most difficult things I have ever tried operate. I have operated a multitude of SW receivers and radio sets. This doesnt have its own software interface and instead is supposed to use a 3rd party "generic" interface. None of that works. I guess the hardware works, cant tell at all as the software does seem to see the device and loads some "drivers" that must fail I guess. It all might work but I dont know because I cant tell as the static or sounds are all muted or something so I just gave up. Cant get it to work so I dont know what I will do with it, but its totally beyond my ability to get this thing to function. It would be NICE to have an operator manual for this but I cant find one as I dont think they print any or make any. Learning morse is easier than the post grad degree training this takes.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2026 by Brian