[NJARC] A $40 Software-Defined Radio - IEEE Spectrum

[Al Klase]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the link. The video is a good introduction to thia subject.

I've been messing around with these "dongles" for a while now. In fact 
the last three I bought were 9 bucks a pieces, shipped, from China of 
course, via E-bay. They actually work fairly well, especially when you 
consider that there's virtually no money involved. You need to buy or 
build an up-converter if you want to tune below the bottom limit of the 
dongles frequency range which is something like 24 MHz.

There are a number of free software packages available. My current 
favorite is SDR-Console Version 2. http://v2.sdr-radio.com/ Stuff like 
this even decodes FM stereo. There's some potentially confusing 
software-geek things that need to be done to get the proper drivers 
loaded so the PC can talk to the radio, but it's not too time consuming.

I've had a lot of fun exploring software-defined radio. Talk to me if 
you need help.

Best regards,
Al

On 12/29/2013 10:14 AM, TrainBee at aol.com wrote:
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>      I understand it will not tune below 25 mHz with a  modification.
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> Joe Devonshire
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
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