Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF building blocks

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:00:13AM -0700, Spencer Chirume wrote:
> Can anyone provide me the 'building blocks' of a basic and or
> intermidiate digital radio for general reception>Looking at the
> Component parts the physical parts(a/d & other components) the
> software for demodulation & stages preceding and past the demod stage
> nescesary for building it from scratch using widely available parts
> from companies like RS componetns and the likes.

The path of least resistance it to buy a USRP with the TVRX
daughterboard.  See http://ettus.com

Using radio shack parts, you're going to be limited to the bandwidth
you can fit through a sound card, and then you'll still need a way to
downconvert and filter to something that will fit.

Eric


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