[NLRS] More SDR hardware, BladeRF and Noctar

[Doug Reed]

Just ran into this item in the SDRSharp forum.

BladeRF- USB3.0 and RX-TX from 300MHz to 3.8GHz for $400. Can run up
to 28MHz wide data channels. Or slower of course. I will be
interesting to hear if it works for narrow band modes. They say they
will have additional modules to cover bands from 0 to 10GHz.
<http://www.nuand.com/>
<http://hackaday.com/2013/02/02/bladerf-your-next-software-defined-radio/>

Noctar- PCIe plug-in card, RX-TX from 100KHz to 4GHz for $850. Can
support up to 250MHz bandwidth. Probably not too good for
portable.....
<http://www.pervices.com/>

Big question would be if any of them would be stable enough for ham
GHz narrow band use. The BladeRF says it has a 1PPM 38.4 MHz TCXO but
that probably wouldn't be stable enough for us and I don't know
anything about the phase noise.

I'll stick with my $10 dongle for now, although I would like something
with a low power TX side....

73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.