I was ready to say you've made my day but unfortunately those rtlsdr dongles use the mostly unwanted Fitipower FC0012 tuner and not any of the better Raphael tu

I was ready to say you've made my day but unfortunately those rtlsdr dongles use the mostly unwanted Fitipower FC0012 tuner and not any of the better Raphael tuners (R820T2/etc) that are most common and expected for rtl-sdr dongles. The frequency range supported and the rtl-sdr software ecosystem for FC0012 are minimal. Elonics E4000 (E4K) 54 - 2200 MHz (1100 MHz-1250 MHz gap) Rafael Micro R820T 24 - 1766 MHz (>1500 MHz is bad w/o tuner cooling) Rafael Micro R820T2 24 - 1766 MHz (>1500 MHz is bad w/o tuner cooling) Rafael Micro R820T2 13 - 1864 MHz (mutability's driver) Fitipower FC0012 22 - 948 MHz Fitipower FC0013 22 - 1100 MHz (FC0013B/C, FC0013G has seperate L band input) FCI FC2580 146 - 308 MHz and 438 - 924 MHz Looking around on aliexpress most at that price at FC0012 tuner based (even if they say R820T). There are a couple actual R828D dongles but the price shown seems to be one time thing "welcome deal"/75% off and the actual price is more like $25. Dang. Still, I'll keep my eyes on aliexpress now as well as ebay, so thanks.