Features:

  • Listen to ALL HF, down to 100kHz and below, with nearly any software defined radio!
  • Open-hardware design! Full documentation available: http://opendous.org/Upconverter
  • Proudly made in the USA and Canada with high-quality components!
  • Antenna protection on the RF input, in-circuit in both enable and passthrough mode
  • Full 1-year warranty
Buy one and have tons of fun on shortwave!

I use this in tandem with Nooelec's DVB-T dongle with the Elonics 4000 tuner. My antenna is a 43 foot vertical. I must say this is a poor man's/tinkerer's entry into the world of shortwave listening using Software Defined Radio. I use this to listen to AM radio, shortwave broadcasters, HF aeronautical, hams on 160/80/40/30/20/15/10 meters, time signal stations, other utility stations such as FAX/RTTY/DGPS/LF beacons/ALE, etc. It is stable enough to decode FAX, RTTY (you need other software to decode these stations though). For the price what you get in fun and listening pleasure is unbelievable. And this is from someone who is a ham for 35 years and a shortwave listener since the mid-60's. Since purchasing this product I am now a victim of sleep deprivation - cannot go to bed, I'm having too much fun using it! And the staff at Nooelec are the friendliest, knowledgeable, and committed folks I have ever dealt with. They are there to answer all your questions promptly.

Listen to Ham radio, police, EMS and much more at a fraction of the cost for a comparable receiver.

This product is well made and frequencies are accurate. It is amazing the range of frequencies available when coupled with the NeSDR Smart running HDSDR software. A very welcome addition to my computer. Saves a bundle of money compared to a standard receiver that will receive a comparable range of frequencies.

listen to all frequencies

This little thing is AMAZING. using this and a wire antenna from my house (west Texas) to the back wall of my property I was able to receive broadcasts from all over the place, some ham radio transmissions I was able to verify were from Canada and Japan. I was able to receive weather fax transmissions from California.

What a great hobby toy!

WoW it does not get better than this. The upconverter works great and well worth the money. Connected to my Dongle I can surf the world with fantastic waterfalls and spectrum displays. I would say more but the other comments have done a good job covering it. It is easy to setup and get up and running. The one thing I will say is watch the youtube video and you should be ready. Remember HF starts at about 125 to 155 MHz on the software tuning dial. That covers 30 to 50 MHz.

If you are playing with RTL-SDR and are a ham ...

If you are playing with RTL-SDR and are a ham or interested in shortwave, you'll want this. It works well and is worth the cost. Its more complex with more parts than I anticipated, but all the built-in filtering on all the ports really cleans up the noise and hash. You'd build it yourself except the little SMD capacitors and inductors in the filters are just too small to see and deal with.

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I own a few NooElec products—this and the matching enclosure, two NESDR SMArt units, and a Balun One-Nine—all of which are nicely built (in the US and Canada, no less) and backed by excellent customer service. The TXCO in my Ham It Up is extremely stable, as are both of my NESDR SMArts. Like, really, really stable. No drift. When I've bounced random questions off the NooElec support team on a few occasions, I've received friendly, knowledgeable, professional service with a surprisingly fast turnaround time. When choosing an upconverter, I narrowed things down to the Spyverter and the Ham It Up. I ultimately went with this unit, largely on account of my positive experiences dealing with the company. The Ham It Up's RF noise generator (requires soldering an SMA female connector to the board) is also a nice plus, and will be handy when testing other gear. For those of you who have a receiver with a bias tee, like the Airspy or RTL-SDR, you might want to consider the Spyverter. Not a paid shill, just a happy customer.

Very useful, low cost way to see HF band

I am using a mag loop for transmitting on HF, and it takes a while to tune up for different bands. Using this and a cheap RTL-SDR allows me to see if it's worth the effort to swap bands. I have it connected to a short ~37' OCF dipole mounted on my fence, and it's great to be able to see the activity on an entire band at once. I have had no issues with receive on 40-10M. I also highly recommend adding an Array Solutions AS-RXFEP inline to protect the front end when transmitting from a nearby antenna.

Gotta give 5 stars on the price/performance alone. I ...

Gotta give 5 stars on the price/performance alone. I got one pared with the NooElec dongle in an outdoor box for a 0 to 1700 mhz receiver. Used a Rasberry Pi for putting audio on an TCP socket. Antenna is a switched between an discone for VHF/UHF and vertical for HF - the Pi is used to switch the antenna relay. For picture see: http://af5sa.net/project.html (about 1/2 way down pg.) This makes the whole setup into a internet remote receiver, mountable just about anywhere on the planet. (also had to remove the upconverter switch and install a relay that's also controlled by the Pi.)

Works great for me.

This review is for the Ham It Up V1.3 ONLY. For me the hardest part getting this setup correctly was knowing exactly how to set the offset in the SDR# program I'm using. Once I figured out that I needed to set the shift to -125,000,463 (that's negative 125,000,463) everything fell into place. With that offset I'm able to just set the frequency I want to listen to directly in SDR#. Tuning to WWV at 10Mhz and 15Mhz helps a lot while confirming your shift. I compared received signals between this SDR setup and my Kenwood TS450SAT on the same 80M dipole and I'll say that this is slightly less sensitive than the Kenwood, but not much. Certainly very usable and a good way to explore SDR for not a lot of money. I've got all this working under Windows 10 through a USB 2,0 hub in case ayone is concerned about compatibility. I also installed this board in the NOOELEC metal enclosure designed for this board. Don't skimp on the external cabling, either. Get the correct adapters and don't jury rig those. They are readily available here on Amazon.

It’s a LOT smaller than expected from pictures.

It’s only roughly slightly larger than, say, a pack of 100’s cigarettes. The small size came as a surprise. While I’m not 100% pleased with what you get for the overpriced enclosure, the board itself works fine. I’m RX’ing AM stations, SW, and amateur HF with it which is cool...

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