[Discuss-gnuradio] Macrovision and HDTV

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Schear
I'm trying to determine how widespread the use of Macrovision protection is on HDTV. I'd appreciate any of the list members with a scope who could test their Component Analog Video signals and get back with my off-list. I'm particularly keen to hear about signals related to PBS, DiscoveryHD,

[Discuss-gnuradio] IBM VC calls for 'open' hardware

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160502705 MONTEREY, Calif. — A revolution is coming to the electronics industry, says Juan-Antonio Carballo, partner in IBM's venture capital group — and it's based on "open" hardware that will foster the kind of collaborative effort that Linux

[Discuss-gnuradio] Fear and loathing of GNURadio in D.C.

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Schear
Does Open-Source Software Make The FCC Irrelevant? Daniel Fisher, 10.18.05, 10:00 AM ET Should the FCC try to crack down, the hackers have a powerful weapon: The First Amendment. An

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs

2005-12-17 Thread Steve Schear
All it means is that inexpensive Component Analog Video to HD-SDI converters, primarily targeting professionals but widely available to anyone with a CC, will appear and consumer gear will start sporting HD-SDI inputs. Steve ___ Discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:02 PM 12/21/2005, Seth David Schoen wrote: Steve Schear writes: > All it means is that inexpensive Component Analog Video to HD-SDI > converters, primarily targeting professionals but widely available to > anyone with a CC, will appear and consumer gear will start sporting HD-SDI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Do I need a FCC license?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:30 AM 1/9/2006, LRK wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:35:57PM -0600, Eunsoo Seo wrote: > Hi, guys. I'm a newbie. > I'm planning to buy some USRPs and start learning gnu radio. > > By the way, somebody told me that I need a license from FCC to use gnu radio. > And he said that getting a li

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-like Spartan development board

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Schear
Has anyone looked into these? http://www.comblock.com/com1200.htm ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Scientific American article on Cognitive Radio

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Schear
The March issue contains an introduction to SDR and cognitive radio by Steven Ashley. Vanu is mentioned but not GNURadio, even as a source for further information. Interesting mention of MEMS-RF and the absence of WLAN telephony due to carrier resistance but nothing about the controversy of S

[Discuss-gnuradio] Scientific American article on Cognitive Radio

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Schear
The March issue contains an introduction to SDR and cognitive radio by Steven Ashley. Vanu is mentioned but not GNURadio, even as a source for further information. Interesting mention of MEMS-RF and the absence of WLAN telephony due to carrier resistance but nothing about the controversy of S

[Discuss-gnuradio] Congress raises broadcast flag for audio

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Schear
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6045225.html Another excellent reason not to refer to or associate this project with being a radio... its a digital signal capture, analysis and generation tool kit. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnurad

[Discuss-gnuradio] ATSC changes

2006-04-19 Thread Steve Schear
The ATSC has published revisions of several key standards--including A/52, the Digital Audio Compression Standard (AC-3); A/53, the Digital Television Standard; and A/110, the Synchronization Standard for Distributed Transmission. New versions of all three documents were approved by the ATSC me

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP - FX2 / gpif / EEPROM / firmware questions

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:42 PM 5/10/2006, John Gilmore wrote: > I am developing a hardware project similar to the USRP > in that it uses the 100-pin FX2 USB micro and houses > several FPGAs (Xilinx in this case), as well as a dual > ADC. Great! Any chance that we can use your hardware (or its design)? There are l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MovieBeam

2006-06-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:40 PM 6/2/2006, David I. Emery wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:30:36AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: Obviously basically a means of funding PBS stations, unclear as to what percentage of the OTA bandwidth it uses or whether this is dynamically assigned (replacing (otherwise) null packe

[Discuss-gnuradio] Galileo (EuroGPS) cracked

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Schear
Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret. That means free access for consumers who use navigation devices -- including handheld

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Record the entire RF spectrum.

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:18 AM 8/30/2006, you wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:24 +0100, mat holton wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > I sent Eric and email asking if it was possible to record the entire > spectrum and about the possibilities that would result if this was > possible. After an excellent reply, I continu

[Discuss-gnuradio] A good reason for an invigorated passive radar project

2007-01-30 Thread Steve Schear
2006-05-30 By James Renner Cleveland Free Times http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=423757 Last week, a fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Good

[Discuss-gnuradio] SSV-online

2007-02-01 Thread Steve Schear
One relatively popular feature of sci-fi is the assumption that if ETs did visit Earth's surface using physical vehicles they would use some sort of stealth technology to hide their craft from discovery. Such speculative fiction is far afield from the hard science and technology of this list bu

[Discuss-gnuradio] Sony May Stop Cell Chip Development

2007-02-13 Thread Steve Schear
In yet another sign of trouble for the big consumer electronics vendor, Sony may stop developing its cell processor, which is at the heart of the PlayStation3. Why? Budget reasons, mostly. The company is exploring a wide range of possibilities, including out-sourcing chip production. http://ww

[Discuss-gnuradio] A5/3 and GEA3 Algorithms

2007-02-18 Thread Steve Schear
Specification of the A5/3 Encryption Algorithms for GSM and EDGE, and the GEA3 Encryption Algorithm for GPRS Get'em before their not (as in there) http://cryptome.org/a53-gea3/a53-gea3.htm ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

[Discuss-gnuradio] Intel introduces steerable beam antenna for WiFi

2007-03-30 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=198701336 ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio