RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] radio front end ?

[Stephen Nichols]

>I was speaking of the module which we bought from Microtune, on a
>development board.  Most cable TV tuners downconvert to channel 2,3, and/or
>4, which are 50+ MHz.

You're right. It was one of those old cable converter boxes people used
before all the tvs became cable ready.

>If you are serious about SDR, I think your best option is to buy the same
>tuner board we have.  It connects to a parallel port, has software written

I looked thru to message archive and found this
"FYI, it's a Microtune 4937DI5 3x7702 module.  Tunes from 50M to 860M..."

I checked their web site and didn't find that specific model number listed.
What looked close was http://www.microtune.com/products/49xx_Series.html

While googleing around I also found an into to sdr type article
http://www.spectrumsignal.com/Wireless_Systems/05_News_and_Events/01_Feature
_Stories/Under_SDR_Reqs_.pdf

I know this
http://www.spectrumsignal.com/Products/_Datasheets/SDR-WDS_dsheet.cfm would
cost several times what my car costs I just had to stop and drool over it.

An introduction to digital radio with a little of the companies product info
mixed in
http://www.etools.de/produkte/pdfs/wp_engdigradsystems.pdf

stephen