KA1RA也玩多个RTLSDR,并且考虑了多个RTLSDR的时钟同步问题,在此转发一下,共同学习。
I have been playing around with the cool RTL dongles (more on rtl-sdr dongles on superkuh's web page or rtl-sdr.com) that you can buy on e-bay for about US$8 (including shipping). These are very capable 8-bit digital receivers that have up to 2.4 MHz bandwidth and can tune anywhere between 24 MHz and 1850 MHz.
I recently came up with a trivial hack to build a receiver with multiple coherent channels using the RTL dongles. I do this basically by unsoldering the quartz clock on the slave units and cable the clock from the master RTL dongle to the input of the buffer amplifier (Xtal_in) in the slave units (I've attached some pictures).
I originally drove the master crystal with both dongles, which also worked. However, Ian Buckley pointed out to me that a more typical way of doing this is feeding the signal into Xtal_In (in the pictures below). So I tried that too, and it also worked. I'm still not sure what the optimal setup is, as there is no schema for the dongle, but both methods I've tried so far have worked in practice.