Thoughts on optimizing gain

This option limits the bandwidth of the signal visible to the ADC to about 3.5 MHz instead of the default 9 MHz. This can be useful in some situations when you have some broadband noise right over the 1090 MHz band. But mind you, reducing the bandwidth of a signal also smooths the transitions between 0 and 1 levels in the time domain. This makes the detection harder or even impossible in some cases.

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