USRP N210 and SBX transceiver will give you coverage of all those bands. Matt
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Andrew Rich <vk4...@tech-software.net>wrote: > Maybe I can list my aims and you can tell me if GNU and N200 can do this ? > > 1. Receive on 1030 MHz - BW not sure yet > 2. Receive on 1090 MHz - BW not sure yet > 3. Receive on 2700 - 2900 MHz - BW not sure yet > 4. Classify signals on these bands. > 5. Perform PPM decode - Pulse Position Decode on the 1090 MHz band > > Using a hardware device and GNU radio > > The computer would be a MAC MINI running openSUSE LINUX > > or > > MacBook PRO Laptop running LINUX > > with either USB or Gigabit ethernet. > > What would be the suggested software and hardware combinations ? > > Can I use the N200 as a very basic spectrum analyser and a capture device ( > I guess the capture device would be just continuous) > > I undestand what I want to do and I have started decoding singals on 1090 > MHz already > > I just want to turbo charge the process and make it as fast as my Mode S > 1090 MHz receiver I have now, which is a 1090 MHz front end and FPGA > > > - Andrew - > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus D. Leech" <mle...@ripnet.com> > To: "Andrew Rich" <vk4...@tech-software.net> > Cc: <Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:47 AM > Subject: Re: GNU radio > > > On 21/09/2011 11:34 AM, Andrew Rich wrote: >> >>> I was just looking at the N200 >>> >>> Do these hardware components have sensitivity figures ? >>> >> That depends entirely on the daughterboard you chose. Although most of >> them have noise figures in the 4-5dB range at maximum gain. >> If you're just interested in RX in the 1090MHz range, I'd suggest the >> DBS_RX2. Sensitivity is dominated by noise figure. If you need >> lower noise figures you'll have to put a band-specific LNA in front, >> which is what I do for radio astronomy. >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> In an SDR, nearly-all the processing is done on the host computer, so >> you need a fastish computer. Overall compute requirements >> are roughly proportional to sample_rate * complexity-per-sample. >> >> >> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/discuss-gnuradio<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio> >
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