Radio Ramblings

Musings of an amateur nature

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Softrock Lite v8.1 + XTALL

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The latest version of Tony Parks’ Softrock is soon to be released.  The first reviewer said:
> Realizing the drawbacks of the “aliasing” using no filter it was sure
> a lot of fun jumping from 80M to 40M to 20M with just the DIP switch
> freq select. Of course “you” shouldn’t do this but I [...]

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Playing with GRC (I)

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I must admit, I’m pretty disappointed with the state of software defined radio in the amateur world. We have great hardware available to us - USRP, FlexRADIO, HPSDR, Softrock and soon hopefully uWSDR - and decent software, but there doesn’t really seem to be any sign of people doing anything new.
GNU Radio should make [...]

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Tags: SDR