[SMCARA] RADXA and SDR ordered so let the experiments begin.

[Daniel Metcalf]

So as planned I just placed the order for the following SDR Receiver:
100KHz-1.7GHz Full Band UV RTL-SDR USB Tuner Receiver/R820T+8232 Ham
Radio 01
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PIBZ76I/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and two of these single board computers:

Radxa Rock Pro RK3188 Quad-core 1.6 GHz 2G RAM 8G Flash open source
Single-board Computer Supported Linux, Android, FreeBSD

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KTHXDNK/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The experiment is to see if any of the single board computers I
currently own or am about to receive (I still have a few Beagle Bone
Blacks, a Raspberry Pi B and tomorrow I will have two of these Radxa
Pro(s)) will decode the SDR's signals in a reasonable amount of time and
efficiently. Efficiently being defined as not using more then 50% of the
processor's capability and not more than half of the system's ram. 

My hypothesis is that the single core processor boards are going to
choke in that they may decode the signals and I might hear some audio
but I expect the processor is going to be be pegged at close to or at
100% utilization.

I do have mush higher hopes for the Radxa boards.

Now the question I have for the group is what SDR software do I use
being all systems are Linux. Any ideas other the GnuRadio? I expect to
run several software packages for comparison hoping that one package may
be more efficient than another and I was already planning to start with
GnuRadio.

73,
Dan -- KB3UUN