I was just looking at the N200
Do these hardware components have sensitivity figures ?
I am interested in passive RADAR
I have been using a 1090 MHz receiver and a cheap digital OSCilloscope
commaned under LINUX as a capture device.
I guess that is sort of what the hardware and software of an SDR does ?
My system is very slow
- Andrew -
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus D. Leech" <mle...@ripnet.com>
To: "Andrew Rich" <vk4...@tech-software.net>; <Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: GNU radio
On 09/20/2011 06:14 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
Can I ask some questions about GNU radio ( I think I just did )
Is there a diffinative list of what GNU Radio can do ?
Well, there's the Doxygen DOCs, which are more programmer-friendly than
for someone wanting to get a pithy overview.
http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/index.html
And the www.gnuradio.org site in general has a fair amount of information.
What modes does the GNU radio suite cover ?
A bunch. But keep in mind that Gnu Radio isn't an *end application*, but
rather a DSP/SDR development environment for
*developing* end applications.
Applications are "strung together" from fundamental DSP building blocks,
like modulators, filters, etc. There's a GUI-based application,
called "GRC" (GnuRadio Companion) which helps with that "stringing
together", although one is also free to program using the
pre-defined blocks in either Python or C++. There is also a mechanism
for adding your own processing blocks, which are generally
written in C++, and interface to the rest of Gnu Radio using a formal
interface.
Are there any experimental modes being used with GNU radio ?
I huge fraction of the people using Gnu Radio are using it for
experimentation with communications protocols and new modulation
techniques. Some are students, using Gnu Radio to explore variants of
existing modulation schemes--OFDM, QAM, QPSK, etc.
Is it just the ease of experimentation that is the attraction ?
I guess that's part of the attraction. And it's free--both as in beer,
and "freedom". It supports a growing number of SDR hardware
platforms as well, including the products from Ettus, and the FCD from
the UK. One of the Gnu-Radio based applications that I run
24x7 uses a PC sound card as an RF sampler for VLF radio.
Much of the "early" SDR hardware platforms out there, particularly those
targetted at the amateur-radio market, have a closed,
or nearly-closed API, and often you're "locked in" to the applications
they provide. Which is fine if you think of an SDR platform
as nothing more than a ham-radio "appliance", with a PC GUI instead of
front-panel knobs.
But for those of us who think of SDR platforms as more-generic devices, a
"framework" like Gnu Radio is the perfect vehicle for
experimentation, research, testing, and even end-product "delivery". My
own software-product, IRA, uses Gnu Radio underneath
to do about 80% of the signal-processing functions.
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org
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