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Relative to that topic, is there any how-to, guide or documentation anywhere to improving and tuning reception quality on your KiwiSDR?

I do not think there is anything in one spot. There are many excellent posts here in this forum. Here's a summary of my experiences:

• Have a reasonably good antenna and keep it away from known RFI sources.
  
• Be conscious of things like MW BC overload and apply filters as required
  
• Avoid switching PSU, some are quiet but most are not so try to use linear PSU
  
• Understand Common Mode Interference, read up on it, applies the easy remedies like use of ferrite core and intermediate grounding on your feedline
  
• Watch for spurious using the [SPEC] display on a KiwiSDR client webpage, much noise can be noted by "lumps" of noise or spurs carriers at repeating spacing across a band
  
• ID noise spurious by turning things on/off within your dwelling ot near the antenna
  
• a partial list...
  

Relative to that topic, is there any how-to, guide or documentation anywhere to improving and tuning reception quality on your KiwiSDR?

I do not think there is anything in one spot. There are many excellent posts here in this forum. Here's a summary of my experiences:

• Have a reasonably good antenna and keep it away from known RFI sources.
  
• Be conscious of things like MW BC overload and apply filters as required
  
• Avoid switching PSU, some are quiet but most are not so try to use linear PSU
  
• Understand Common Mode Interference, read up on it, applies the easy remedies like use of ferrite core and intermediate grounding on your feedline
  
• Watch for spurious using the [SPEC] display on a KiwiSDR client webpage, much noise can be noted by "lumps" of noise or spurs carriers at repeating spacing across a band
  
• ID noise spurious by turning things on/off within your dwelling ot near the antenna
  
• a partial list...
  

rating receivers is pretty tricky... I see few ranking sites that are indicative of actual usefulness of receivers

Marti DRM loud here in NY this afternoon

Update: after noting that they were running 9 KHz BW, I pulled the corners of the passband in a tad and got an SNR improvement. China Radio Int'l sits right on the top corner of the 10 KHz passband

adaptive would be great but just allowing the DX label PB value to force the BW rather than DRM forcing it would suffice

I bought one of the ~$50 NanoVNA and a great little device for testing and aligning coax, filters etc. Here's a shot of my notch filter box using it. NanoVNA-H is the thing to buy, see Google

all working/routing seems OK...

After using connmancrl as above I found I need to be sure that the kiwiSDR always found wlan0. I locked the macs for both interfaces in my router. 192.168.1.73 for wlan0 and 192.169.1.173 for eth0. I used a static address in the kiwi network setup to use 192.168.1.73. (73 is site specifc, yours will vary). It works and now I wait for a smarter person than me to tell me a better way

192.168.1.173 allows me to get in locally via wire if needed

I have successfully made my BBAI based kiwiSDR accessible by both eth0 and the AI's internal wlan0. I'll post more details after more testing.

Incremental report....

Following this precedure gives you a wifi client, to your central router, persistant across power cycles

I don't think I am alone in having issues finding the search function the first time. A reminder, it is at the bottom right corner of the page index