Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] to prevent damages

[Matt Ettus]

Vincenzo Pellegrini wrote:

> hi, 
> I've just been reading the thread about the broken RX board.
> some days ago I've just denied to one of my fellows the permission to
> connect an amplified HF antenna to the LFRX for fear it could overload
> the input...we used a passive half-wave (@ band centre) dipole
> instead.  
>  
That should not be a problem.

> just to be sure about what we can or cannot do with our fantastic piece
> of hardware, is there anything published detailing exactly what we must
> avoid and what we can feel free to do?
>  
0 dBm, or 1 mW into a receiver will not damage it. 

Matt