Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF front end

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:30:04PM -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> So, basically you're looking for something that takes in RF at,
> say 2m or 70cm, and then converts it to an intermediate frequency
> that could be fed directly into a sound card?  Oh, and make
> it easy for the random hobbyist to build. :-)  

Exactly!

> Would something like the front end of the DSP-10 (see the articles
> at http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/sdr.html) be similar to what you're
> looking for?  TAPR produced a kit for that
> (http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fdsp10.html), perhaps they could be
> persuaded to help with this too. :-)

Looks like the DSP-10 would work fine.  Too bad they're out of kits.
If someone has a DSP-10, hooking it up to use GNU Radio shouldn't be
too difficult.  If any one's interested, please post to the list.

> Cheers,
> Tanner Lovelace
> KB4TYE

Eric