SDR Nooelec
This article documents the saga of trying to fight interference and flaky USB port on the NOOELEC stick. It is otherwise a capable SDR but has some flaws, namely overheats to hell, has a lot of interference, and has a wobbly port. For first experiments with the RF spectrum it was well adequate though.
This project ended with me getting a good stick instead (the RTL-SDR Blog one)