Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF building blocks

[Robert McGwier]

And at $550-ish,  the TVRX/USRP are underpriced.  Thanks Matt!  I would 
suggest
more realistic pricing on future components.  There is little hope of 
long term viability,
time for support,  upgrades, etc. without sufficient capitalization.   I 
know that even this
is more than many can afford.  Nevetheless,  it would be better if  Matt 
made enough
per board to have a development budget of some sort and new toys to help 
us get new
toys.  With all of the GPL software, it would be a bargain at much more.

IMHO.  Throw tomatoes now please.
Bob





Eric Blossom wrote:

> 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
>