Below 30Mhz on LimeSDR Mini - Full of garbage

Here some tips, who knows, may be useful to someone…

Have here one LimeNET micro which was not used on primary intention.
Assuming that RF part is similar to mini consider this approach:

I was able to use on 7 MHz with Ron’s SDR Console all gain to max and LNA4ALL
but that is only Win solution and no use of on board CM3.

Therefore decided to try with Raspibian and Soapy Remote…
Managed to install all that and find out that Cubic SDR is working on remote
and SDRAngel crashing - the author reply was:
"
Soapy suppport is a workaround for devices that are not natively supported in case this may be useful. I will not make any effort concening Soapy.
"


you can notice presence of SDRPlay RSP1, that was consideration to cover
HF, work nice over CM3 USB with Soapy Remote.

So for the time can forget TX on this setup…

Later with running Cubic SDR find out that on HF even with all gains up, reception is poor or almost impossible bellow 10 MHz.
So here temporary solution till I find out something better:
ICOM PCR1000, IF out on 10.7 MHz
Again sensitivity of Lime was not enough to properly receive 10.7 IF
Let’s try solution with moRFeus in mixer mode, LO on 85 MHz - 10.7 MHz = 74.3 “zero” on IF
Good surprise - moRFeus is able to mix signal bellow 30 MHz (specification)
And this solution is working now fully remote from 100 kHz up to 1.3 GHz
I am setting PCR1000 on start of band, for example 7.000 the rest is on Lime.
Lime is properly passive cooled and temp. stay in 35 C range.

Here some CW contest on 7 MHz running now and I am able to use Ubuntu and Win10 host notebooks for RX all over the local WiFi network, bandwith up to 500 kHz

Messy setup in attic :blush:
Left PCR1000, Mid moRFeus, Right LimeNET micro /with upper case cover removed…

Done for test, 10.7 MHz IF out on PCR1000, C 10nF SMD

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