> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:12:03 +1000
> From: a.nielsen@shikadi.net
> To: osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org
> Subject: Re: Direct sampling mode frequency range?
>
> > Can someone clarify what the frequency range is in Direct sampling
> > mode.
>
> In direct sampling mode you can "tune" by setting the IF between 0 and
> 30MHz.
>
> > So can the dongle in "direct sampling mode" (with appropriate antenna
> > connection) receive > 14.4 Mhz (Nyquist) ?
>
> Yes, and it has nothing to do with Nyquist because the sample rate you
> receive is only 2MHz or so as per normal. Direct sampling mode does not
> capture a wider band than normal, it just uses a different method to
> tune the receiver. So the oscillator frequency is irrelevant, and
> Nyquist doesn't come into it any differently with direct sampling than
> with normal sampling.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.
>