some things worng with my lna
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some things worng with my lna

hello long time since last posted and yet we still havent detected a single hydrogen line

(we are using a horn antenna with aluminium tape, and a noolec sdr and lna ) before we bought the new sdr (the nooolec one) we were using rtl sdr v3 and there was a dc offset to strong after we changed to the noolec version there is no more dc offset peak but when i give the power to the lna the whole spectrums ground shakes and after background correcting still no hydrogen line

for lna the gain does go up when i turn it on and the amount is centered in 1420mhz so the amplification does work but cant understand why the ground shakes

i have seen many references that worked with the same things we have

At this point i really dont know what to do does anyone have an advice?? plz help

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u/SpecificTie2345 — 4 days ago
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we are still trying to detect the 21cm hydrogen line but it wont work. the things that we have improved from the last post is : we found out that the sma connector wasnt connected to the metal part of the antenna for setting GND(we double check by useing multitester), so same as shown in the photo we connected the sma conncetor with aluminium tape, and made the machanics more compact for less noise, and overall we retaped the aluminium for less noise , we are using rtl sdr v3, and powering wide band ampliefier and lna from our laptop, for soft ware we are using sdr sharp with if average, we use polaris for background and capture our galaxy for signal but how many times i do it i wont show on the live fft or the averaging window there is no signals just flat i still cant find the problem other i have compared with references but still no answer, does anybody have an idea for this fail. (the waveguides parameters are a little bit off from the theoraticall parameters but i dont think i is that bigg of a diffrence to just give no signals, we found out that when faced to the place with a group of antennas onthe root the whole spectrum goes up the whole floor

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u/SpecificTie2345 — 2 months ago