MALAHIT DSP2 Portable ALL MODE SDR Receiver - INSANELY GOOD! 

Wow! That noise reduction setting is indeed impressive. Thanks as always for showing us all the cool radios, and other devices.

Some things to remember when dealing with China and other clones: You must have the seller state what FW version (such as 1.10d or 2.40...etc) it has and ask if it is legal/upgradeable. DSP-2 receivers for those who are not aware, are the LAST model of the receiver using Russian-originated software. The actual Russian Malahit receivers are now at the DSP-3 model, with some significant improvements, including apparently changes to reduce noise from the screen. But ordering direct from Russia remains a challenge at this point. Chinese clone makers have done a very good job of adapting the Russian software to various designs and this is the latest one. The problem with all of these is that there are so many options available in the software for signal processing, such as PREAMP and other settings, that for listening to today's SW broadcasts, you're almost better off using a Tecsun 330 or 990 or H-501. Some people are confusing the MODEL of the receiver (DSP-2 for example) with the firmware (i.e. 1.10d). You're quite correct that build quality on this appears to be substantially better than other units online. And there are TWO antenna inputs which is a good thing, like the old V3 SDR which is still shown as being available online.

When you pressed that noise reduction button I genuilely exclaimed 'Holy shit!'

Can't wait to get my official one ... thank you for your videos always good watching when I can't sleep

Thanks for this video. I currently own a licensed Malahit one but usually use it with a magnetic loop as the telescopic whip mainly picks up the display noise. This one looks worth the money. 73, and have a nice day!

Great small SDR radio! It’s looks so well built for sure. Impressive 😊

Amazing little radio, does everything that my 3 racks full of older receivers does

I bought a DSP SDR exactly the same as demonstrated it took ages to arrive I didn't know the country that made it, after making so checks I found out it was made in RUSSIA, and it's beautiful made in a grey metal case, wished I had left the screen protector on, but I removed it as the demonstrator did I must now get another screen protector, the radio arrived very well packed, and now I have to read the instructions that came with it, I am also a Radio Amateur and I have lots of ham radio friends in RUSSIA and also all over the world, I'm so glad I bought the radio the comment was written by Barry G4DIP!

It looks like to be the new high-end standard for DSP receivers. Tons of controls and settings. Looks good to me!

Impressive radio. Love the colour waterfall, and clear audio with NR.

That little radio sounds epic.. ideal for air shows!

Have just received mine . Beautiful build quality , excellent performance and the audio is better than any of my other radios , including my NRD515 , Kenwood R5000 , Icom IC-R70 .

I just received mine two days ago, exact same one from Deepelec! Yesterday I made a video about how to upgrade the firmware to the latest 2.40 beta that adds FT8 and RTTY decoding. I was just thinking, it would be great if Tech Minds gets his hands on this model and makes a good video covering it, as there are not many videos on RU-vid about it! Well... guess you got one then haha! Amazing SDR receiver, great build quality!

This is an impressive receiver. I've been looking for a "sensible" portable SDR receiver for airband and HF and this is it! Also waiting for the X6100 mark 2....

I just got mine all the way from China. Took almost a month to get to the United States (Utah). I will say already that it is very good for the money! The only thing is all the birdies it generates but it doesn't generate any more than and other synthesized rig, really. Takes a day or two to figure out how to make use of it and optimize it for various bands. For example, the settings you might need to get good reception on AM (MW) would be a bit different than for the nearby shortwave (HF) bands. And VHF and UHF and broadcast FM music stations, all have their optimum settings you will have to fiddle with. I was amazed when I listened to my local AM station on 570 (KNRS in Salt Lake City) at night and could hear another station on 570 (co-channel interference) somewhere else in the USA. But with the Attenuation setting, I took the attenuation all the way up to 20 or so and got rid of the distant station entirely, as my local station was still very strong at 20 db Attenuation, whereas the distant station was no longer receivable. Very versatile and capable little rig! Lots of ways to clear up interference. I've never had a receiver (until now) sensitive enough to get that other 570KHz station from far away, so that says a lot. I only have good AM and SW reception with a High-Z antenna, which I happened to have and put to good use (Airspy YouLoop). Seems like anything below 30 Mhz needs a High Z but I have not tried a lot of other antennas yet so take that with a grain of salt at this point. I just got it the other day. The signal to noise ratio on civilian aircraft (118 to 137 mHz) and military aircraft (225 to 380mHz) is really good, better than my half dozen other radios that have those bands, including my Uniden SDS200. Good S/N ratio on weak air band signals is good to have. Also ham sounds great from HF SSB up the UHF.

Looks and sounds amazing!

Just been looking at one of these, great timing

Finally one that seems the most worth buying. Nice look as well..

Just ordered one... cant wait!

Wow, excellent NR and the audio is fantastic..!!

Nice review :-) This radio is evolving into something really good, far surpassing the popular single chip superhets / baseband dsp radios.

What a time to be alive!

Thanks for the video. Gonna grab one for my travels when I am abroad for work in hotels and airports etc. The performance on that small telescopic antenna is wild!

That screen is outstanding.

Fantastic equipment! 👏👏👏 Thanks for the video. 🙏

If this came out with a Yaesu or Icom badge, everyone would be beside themselves about how those brands had revived their tradition of great receivers. A quick request - could you put some specs in your videos?Ta.

Pretty slick. Price is amazing for what you are getting. I was expecting $1000. Look what it does and compare it to the eaton 750 at $600. This thing at $400 CDN is a steal.

Impressive for its compact size!

Thats brilliant. Got a good deal on one ! ❤

The noise reduction on 40 worked awesomely ! The other day 40 was a bit noisy for me and I hit the NB button on my Yaesu and it did very little!

That's quite impressive DSP performance. I was hoping you were going to ultra-dazzle me and reveal it also might do digital decoding (P25/DMR, etc...) but I suspect that could be possible in later FW/SW updates...

Well, you sold me...I just ordered one. Not cheap, but they look and sound like a quality product...!!! 😊

Hmm nice audio but it should be for that price ! I would have liked to seen a MW and LW scan with it using a loop or just the whip etc plus RDS reception on FM. Yes the NR does a good job also with my Malachite V5 clone

Mine came into today. I am a very active Ham operator. Current main HF rig FTDX101MP and it has the best receiver for a transceiver in the world. So the bar was set really really high in receiver performance , filtering and noise mitigation etc. This thing blew me away, I don’t know how they did it. It’s that darn good.

if only the aor expensive hand held scanner had that sdr display nice one sir

Good Stuff!! Amazing little gadget! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Bought one from AliExpress and can confirm “insanely good”. It came with 2.40 firmware installed. Telescopic antenna reception very good indoors and better outdoors…even better with long wire attacked with alligator clip. Preamp and notch filters excellent. Downsides: poor tuning knobs, manual, and no info re memory saving. Altogether light years above competition.

Wow I Like This Radio Thanks For The Video!!!!

Very nice as some have said if it had an Icom or Yaesu badge it would sell like hot cakes, very impressive

Sounds very good. I've ordered it a few minutes ago. 🙂

I have a Malahit V3 and it is my best receiver since I live in a place with very high levels of noise. Its NB and NR are the best compared to all my best radios. Some come very close such as the Icom IC-R71A (NR) and Yaesu FTdx-3000 (NB).

I was wondering if these existed - portable SDR is awesome

I've now had the radio a couple months and the only thing I don't like about it is it seems easily overloaded by local stations that are strong. I seem to pick up a good bit of spurious signals and harmonics too. Overall happy with it though.

Awesome. Almost unimaginable a few years ago. Good review, thanks.

Wow My next favorite radio!

Seems like an excellent receiver. I was just curious about the bandwidths offered for SSB and CW. Airband sounds great! The NR is really superior compared to other receivers.

I bought one of these. The build quality is absolutely beautiful, but the reception just doesn’t seem nearly as sensitive as on the original Russian Malahit DSP2. When using the Hi-Z setting on this 2023 version, I can barely hear anythin at all. On the 50-Ohm setting with the telescopic antenna, it’s better, but still doesn’t pick up as much as the original DSP2. Listening on 40 meters today, the Russian DSP2 picked up tons of signals, but the 2023 clone only got a few of the strongest ones. Maybe I got a dud or something?

Great video. Is the bandwidth adjustment for each mode a continuously variable adjustment or are they fixed settings? Thanks.

Really excellent!

Very tempting.

With respect to the versions sold ~1yr ago It seems they added some bells and whistles and they almost doubled the price! Similar display, same bandwidth192KHz and so on. Cool

Very interesting radio friend. Got lot stations around of world. Blessings

On Ch38 the Italian guy always comes in strong when mother nature in our favour for the UK roughly 10:00 utc but the guys in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, always talk straight over lol 😂 It’s coming strong now I’ve got my 2 element quad faced your direction. Hopefully I can hear you 🇦🇺👍

I reached the conclusion that the only good portable self-contained SDR SW receiver for less than a grand was a transceiver in terms of being able to quickly tune and get to where you want to listen. I have an older Malahit which is kind of usable, apart from the gummy tuning knob that goes backwards almost as much as it goes in the intended direction, but I can’t see the screen outdoors, even when it’s cloudy. This model might change my mind.

As always...great review and YT production. You've got real style. Question for you: Can the Malahit DSP2 be used while charging (or while connected to a battery bank? Thanks!

Thanks for your review. Would you recommend an SMA Terminator on the unused Antenna port?

KD6TXB nice radio thanks for the review

Just ordered mine

Thanks for the video, very informative. I want one…

Love this and would buy it in an instant but I want my next all mode listening device to have onboard recording. Please let me know if you come across anything with these features that will also take an SD card and can record with a touch of a button.

can you get an external ariel to fit this if so what do i need as iam a nofice many thanks

Why don't you use the telescope input HI-Z and turn on the preamp?

Just got one. Wow. Incredibly good. Only niggle is the encoder which has to be spun sometimes. Other than that, absolutely brilliant.

Thats one right nifty receiver. Can you show some time what its like on CW esp its filtering. 73 de EI6DP

The only fault I would point out is the inability to connect a PC to manage memories or stored frequencies. Otherwise, the DSP2 looks really good and I would buy it for portability or trips, but I don't know where I would store the mentioned frequencies, which I would then like to tune again from my home workplace. Thx for nice rewiev.

One of your AE links has it at £228 inc vat and shipping. Is that one also fully licenced?

Your description says that items shown in your videos are also available through your Amazon storefront. But this one is not offered. Please update by adding it to your listing. Thanks

I have one question for you, what is the widest it can receive and display at one time? Is it anything like the RSP1a's 10MHz or is it limited like the inexpensive RTL-SDR type of dongles?

Nice device. Can this see TDMA/CDMA? Not demod. See on a spectrum analyzer?

The audio and sensitivity are amazing especially on that antenna. What would be really good is if it had a second mode where it could operate as a traditional VHF/UHF scanner at high scan speed.

Would love to see you review this radios performance on the Medium Wave band.

Nice Video Nice Receiver reasonable price

This looks pretty decent Im im the market for a radio with a waterfall display. I only listen as im not licenced, so this could save a decent amount of money until i get the licence. I enjoy the ft817 but id like a waterfall.

Have you done a video on the best antenna for this product?

Just ordered one .Regarding the static on 40mtrs I have this interference here,any idea what it is

Good video looks nice how much are they to buy just asking can you pick up air band on it just asking where do you get these radio from

Could I connect this to a PC via the USB-C port to use as a traditional USB RTL-SDR and/or of the likes to use something like SDR#?

This version finally looks practical enough to make me order one. Its performence looks really good and the buildquality and user interface looks very good. This has been asked before but does somebody know what the difference between the two Aliexpress offers is? Only one version ships to my place anyway but still, 100$ difference should have some reason, right?

The interesting thing from this clip was the comment the person made on the airwaves @05:56 the decommissioning of 3G mobile phone signal. As a Blackberry curve user I will lose my internet since only 4/5G will be available. I believe that they will fall back to 2G for only voice and text. So that was a very interesting catch on the airwaves.

Hi, is there a massive difference between the DSP 1. Same design.

Nice, looks like a great tool to locate noise sources. Is 192 kHz he maximum band scope span? DSP3 should be released soon

A little bit pricy, but really good performance. Dear Santa, I've been very good this year....

how high did you have the audio out of the unit while listening?

I was impressed by this tiny Portable receiver.What about its batteries?Is it available and what is it's price?

That first guy speaks proper Finnish rally English. :) greetings from Finland.

Do you need an external antenna to use this receiver? I’m new totally new to this hobby, so any advice would be helpful. Thank you

I am very intersted in this, I have 1 question though. How hard is it to change the battery. Sooner or later the rechargeable battery is going to die, and if I am dropping over 300 bucks on a radio, I want to make sure it doesnt become a paper wieght when the battery dies

Impressive

I noticed this video was from about 4 months ago and that time have you had any problems with this radio?

Can this unit scan? Can it record frequencies (either built in or to a separate recorder via headphone jack)? Is there any video output (for displaying on a larger monitor when at home)?

Can you adjust the tuning step(s)? The display seems to show ".000" most of the time. (Similar question for bandwidth, especially for the 30 MHz and below frequencies.)

I just got mine, and I'm really impressed with it. One minor niggle is that the FM station RDS is not working, even with strong stations and all the settings carefully checked. Have you had this problem? A few letters came though just for a second but nothing since.

Please can you tell us how the encoders are Are they notched, are they optical, does it skip values? In short, are they of good quality or medium THANKS

Is this the "silver" unit or is it black in color? Mad at you Tech Minds - always got me spending my hard earned money.

Can i subject-buy and easy-job, this is changeable from walkie-talkie to radio(entertainment and news or sales)?

If you still have this receiver, can you make the same test you made with the RSP2pro trying to listen to ultrasonics bats' sound. Regards.

Can you please do a video showing 700 and 800 mhz digital trunked reception Does it show the talk groups? Can it do DMR? NXDN? PRO VOICE? THANKS

The website, Aliexpress says it cannot be shipped to my address? Looks like they cannot ship to the USA.

Anyway this reciever is chinese clons branch. Russian original reciever now has DSP3 version.

Can this do a phase 2 Digital Simulcast trunking 700 mhz system? Like a Uniden SDS200?