{"id":5555,"date":"2012-09-12T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:14:32","slug":"wide-band-software-defined-radio-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/wide-band-software-defined-radio-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide band software defined radio (SDR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some very cool stuff out there, you just have to look for it. Software defined radios are in that category. Many things come with a SDR, including a built in spectrum analyzer, continuously variable IF bandwidth and so on. Many manufactures have build SDR&#8217;s; ICOM, AOR, TENTEC, WInRadio, etc. Until recently, a SDR would set one back a pretty penny.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the Ultra Cheap Software Defined Radio based on a RTL2832 USB Television tuner.\u00a0 Someone figured out that the TV tuner covers from approximately 60 MHz to 1700 MHz and it&#8217;s raw output can be used by any number of free, open source software programs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0hEquzLsWU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interface and program and be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.spench.net\/wiki\/USRP_Interfaces\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.spench.net\/wiki\/USRP_Interfaces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>List of compatible devices can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RTLSDR\/comments\/s6ddo\/rtlsdr_compatibility_list_v2_work_in_progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RTLSDR\/comments\/s6ddo\/rtlsdr_compatibility_list_v2_work_in_progress\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google discussion group: <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/ultra-cheap-sdr\" target=\"_blank\">Ultra Cheap SDR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radio software information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdsdr.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">HDSDR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gnuradio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GNUradio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winrad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WinRadio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found a Newsky TV28T USB tuner on Amazon for about $30.00.\u00a0 I figured, what the heck, it is only thirty dollars.\u00a0 There are some sources that have the ezcap EzTV668 on dealextreme for less than $20.00, however, I could not find that particular model.\u00a0 In any case it looks like a fun project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some very cool stuff out there, you just have to look for it. Software defined radios are in that category. Many things come with a SDR, including a built in spectrum analyzer, continuously variable IF bandwidth and so on. Many manufactures have build SDR&#8217;s; ICOM, AOR, TENTEC, WInRadio, etc. Until recently, a SDR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/wide-band-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wide band software defined radio (SDR)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}