Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low cost SDR hardware

[Evan Merewether]

I get the feeling that you would like something significantly lower cost to
support 100 units.  Arrow Electronics partnered with several manufacturers
to develop the BeRadio (http://www.arrownac.com/solutions/beradio/).  There
is no driver/FPGA build for an interface to Gnuradio, but with enough
students working on it, it should not be a problem. Single part price is $79
but I expect Arrow may give a significant price break for a university.

Evan Merewether - Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let every new year find you a better man - Ben Franklin
 
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Manu T S <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> A professor in my university wants to revive lab course on communication.
> He wants to introduce some experiments involving SDR. For that we need
> about 100 pieces of hardware( both receiver and transmitter). Buying 100
> USRP is not a viable solution for us. We can go for RTL SDR but it has
only
> transmitter. Does anyone know of a good solution for low cost hardware,
> (transmitter + receiver or just transmitter) preferably GNU Radio
> compatible, that we could opt for?
>
There is of course the (quite awesome) HackRF[1] which will eventually be
sold for roughly $300 (not sure what the price break for 100 units might
be). That being said, it's still in beta and there aren't anywhere near
100 units available at the moment. You might be able to get in touch
with mossmann (CC'd) to see if you could use his production contacts to
do a small production run.

Cheers,

- Ben

[1] https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf