On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net> wrote:
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It's also worth noting that there seems to be a way to do direct
sampling without any hardware modifications, by exploiting some
undocumented behaviour/bugs in the tuner chip(s?).  I hadn't seen any
mention of this on any of the mailing lists so I thought I would
mention it.  Seems to be plenty of info about it on Google!

http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/12d2wc/a_very_surprising_discovery/
https://github.com/keenerd/rtl-sdr/commit/39b5cd1561602d4f99c49bbc6434004ad9182636