software defined radios
anyone use SDRs?
i am looking at the Ciaoradio. it is 349 Euros, and i think it comes with
the software. i may invest in the software alone at first.
i would like an RFspace SDR, because it can record 160 khz band to hard
drive. both that and the Gnuradio hardware are too expensive.
i am using my sound card for DC to 22 khz reception.
my Sony ICF2001 is doing poorly. i suspect there is corrosion in the
potentiometers. and i may have blown out the front end somehow. i hear you
can mess up a front end and the radio will still work, but you can't hear
much of anything.
my choices now a
1. repair the Yaesu transceiver
2. use the Yaesu FRG7 receiver
3. get a Sangean or Ciaoradio
4. focus on ELF with an Maudio card
i'd love to have an SDR, but i still want to decode RTTY and do other
things. so a gen purpose receiver may be easiest.
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