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

[Daniel Metcalf]

I did a quick search for "Linux SDR software" and came to this site:
http://radio.linux.org.au/?sectpat=SDR

Based on several replies I am going with the following packages for my
experiment:

GNURadio, Gqrx and Linrad

73,
Dan -- KB3UUN


On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 08:19 -0400, Daniel Metcalf wrote:
> 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
> 
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