Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ask : USRP Mode-S/ADS-B project

[Bino Oetomo]

Hello
Eric A. Cottrell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The code is still a work-in-progress.  The hardware used, the USRP and 
> DBSRX board, costs as much or slightly more than the RadarBox or 
> SBS-1.  It might be possible to do a simplified hardware board but I 
> am not a hardware engineer.  Mode-S/ADS-B has a 1 Megabit symbol rate 
> which is way above what a sound card can do.
Nice to hear that it's still in active stage.

Obout the Receiver cost : I understand that, still ...
++ with this we can do some OpenSource and flexible solution
++ Hope ettus will consider to produce 1 port board. I reallize that the 
price cut will not that big ... since the core component (i.e : FPGA) 
still the same ..... but there is a "cut" anyway :)

About Symbol rate : hmmm what about DVB rx card .... i'm not sure if we 
can customize their demodulation to handling mode-s/ads-b ... but they 
capable in handling up to 45 megabit/sec symbolrate , and capable of 
handling freq around 1 Ghz cmiiw.
Arrrggh ... looks like we need to do firmware work (too many work).

Thanks for your enlightment
-bino-