It's good - far better than the other options you noted as it has an inbuilt LNA and a 1090MHz filter to remove all but the ADS-B signals. The non-LNA, non filtered SDRs will need an (expensive) external filtered LNA to be any better. And without that will be far inferior.
#ADSBexchange.com ADS-B SDR
honest mango
honest mango
For use with SDRs that don't have an inbuilt filter.
verbal rover
The internal filter in the blue stick is after the LNA. In some cases, where there's a very strong out of band signal (e.g. you're very close to a cell tower), the LNA can get overloaded, and adding an external filter can mitigate that.
honest mango
You expect the people in marketing to actually know anything about the product before they do the illustration?
lethal coral
dseven already explained the reason it's displayed how it is.
just because it's not necessary for most installs doesn't mean it's not a valid product.
let me rephrase: i see nothing wrong with that image.
finding good explanations of the available hardware and everything is a bit tricky i suppose.
and those product pages don't explain it.
swift bay
I would bet the majority of people here do.
Because marketing isn't going to put a picture of a competing product there, so they used the official product as a representative of how to connect it not that it needs to be added to that SDR.
swift bay
No the advertisement implies you MAY buy a saw filter to put on the ADSBx which is completely true, and a though not commonly needed is a very valid use in some high RF situations. No one is attacking you, we are just answering your questions and correcting your misconceptions.
nova mortar
does the ADSBx Blue radio include a bias tee?
honest mango
does the ADSBx Blue radio include a bias tee?
No