Software Defined Radios

What is Software Defined Radio (or SDR)? Wikipedia gives a definition...

• Wikipedia:What is Software Defined Radio?

In short: an SDR is a radio with no IF, Modulator, or Demodulator stages as we generally understand those terms: a receiving RF preamp feeds directly into a (very fast) A-to-D converter, which is connected to a computer DSP/CPU to tune a signal and extract the modulated audio or data; on the transmit side, the CPU and DSP generate the modulation directly, and feed it to an RF power amp.

In the HF and ham world, it has appeared in 2 distinct phases; in use in high end amateur transceivers and receivers, and utilizing a PC as a controller, letting external software define how the SDR is addressed and utilized.

Please add any appropriate links for SDR here. The forum for this wiki can be found here

Manufacturer Links and Other Pages

• 3DB SDR
• AFEDRI SDR-Net
• Airspy
• Andrus SDR Mk1.5
• BladeRF
• CommRadio CR-1
  • Review of the CR1 Software Defined Radio
• Cross Country Wireless SDR-4 General Coverage Rx
• Elad FDM-S1
• Elad FDM-S2
  • FDM-S2 review and comments from SDR forum
  • ELAD FDM S2 Unboxing, Installing and a First Recording
• Ettus USRP
• FA-SDR
• FiFi SDR
  • Purchase site for FiFi (in German)
• Flex Radio
• Funcube Dongle
• HackRF
• Hoka TitanSDR
• iSDR (for Apple iPhone and iPad)
• Lima SDR (page is in German)
• Peaberry SDR kit
• Per Vices Noctar
• Nooelec TV301U/E4000, TV28T v2/R820T, and EzTV645 DVB-T(FC0013) USB
• PM-SDR
  • PM-SDR vendor
• RFHamFox
• RFSpace
• RF-System PM-SDR
• RTL-SDR
• Soft66 Series
• SoftRock Radio (built and kits
• ThinkRF's WSA5000 < $8K -- Freq: 100 kHz to 20 GHz, Scan Rate: 200 GHz/s @ 122 kHz RBW, etc.
• Software Radio Laboratory QS1R Receiver
• WiNRADIO SDR Receivers

Reviews

Receivers

• SWLPost - Software Defined Radio Reviews
• The RFSpace NET SDR (PDF)

eHam Reviews

• CommRadio CR-1
• Cross Country SDR-4
• Elad FDM-S1
• ELAD FDM-S2
• Eladit FDM-77
• Net-SDR
• Software Radio Laboratory QS1R
• Realtek RTL2832u DVB-T Tuner
• RFSpace SDR-14
• RFSpace SDR-IP
• RF System PM-SDR
• SDR Andrus MK 1.5
• Softrock Ensemble II Built Radio
• Softrock Ensemble II SDR Receiver Kit
• Soft66AD SDR
• Soft66LC4 Software Defined Radio

Specific Models

AFEDRI

• AFEDRI SDR-NET
• The AFEDRI SDR-Net Some Impressions (PDF)
• The Afedri SDR-NET - First Looks

Funcube (all versions)

• Funcube
• Funcube Dongle Pro Plus
• The Funcube Dongle Pro V2.0 on Shortwave (PDF)

Perseus

• NASWA Review of the Perseus
• N9EWO Perseus Review
• An additional review of the Perseus can be found in the September 2009 MT article by Larry Van Horn, 'Perseus Software Defined Radio - A Whole Universe of Listening Possibilities' pp.66-68
• Microtelecom Perseus (eHam review)
• The Perseus SDR (PDF)

RF Space SDR-IQ

• RFSpace SDR-IQ
• RF Space SDR-IQ (PDF)
• UHF Satcom review of the SDR-IQ

Winradio (all models)

• The WinRadio G31 DDC Excalibur SDR (PDF)
• The WinRadio G33DDC Excalibur Pro (PDF)
• WinRadio G303e
• WinRadio G303i
• WinRadio G313e / G313i
• WinRadio G315i
• WinRadio G31DDC Excalibur
• WinRadio G39DDC Excelsior

Software Support

SDR Specific Applications

• BobCAT (for the Perseus)

• Bonito RadioJet Developer Page

• Cross County Wireless SDR AD9850

• CuteSDR Open Source Application (supports RFSPACE NetSDR and SDR-IP radios or the SDR-IQ/14)
  • CuteSDR Yahoo Group

• DSP Radio (Mac OSX, FA-SDR, FUNcube dongle, FiFi and Lima SDRs)

• GNU Radio (Linux)

• Gqrx (Linux, OSX)

• HDSDR

• KG-SDR (supports ALINCO DX-R8A and DJ-X11)

• Linrad (Linux and Windows versions available}

• Quisk (supports SDR-IQ or Softrock)

• Rocky (for the Softrock)

• SDR# | A Software Defined Radio in C#

• SdrDX

• SDR-Radio

• SoDiRa (DRM)

• SpectraVue (supports RFSpace products)

• Studio1

• Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) Useful for piping audio from a SDR back to your PC like a real soundcard

• WebSDR (Linux server application for remote control and streaming of SDR receivers via Java client)

• Winrad (now HDSDR)

Other Applications That Support SDR

• Commander
  • DX Lab Yahoo group
  • eHam comments on Commander

• Ergo
  • Supported radios can be found here
  • The Yahoo mailing list for this software can be found here

• Ham Radio Deluxe
  • Comments on EHam about Ham Radio Deluxe can be found here

• Shoc

• SysLabs RadioControl

Digital Decoding and SDR Support

Hobby Level Software

• Bonito Radiocom6
  • Supported radios are listed here
  • Comments on EHam for this software can be found here

• Ham Radio Deluxe
  • Ham Radio Deluxe support forum
  • Ham Radio Deluxe Yahoo group for version 5.x versions only

• MixW Reportedly works with the Funcube Dongles

• Multimon-NG

• MultiPSK
  • Main English site
  • US Mirror site
  • MultiPSK Yahoo group

• Sigmira

• Sorcerer (digital decoding)

• WinRadio Advanced Digital Suite
• WinRadio Universal FSK Decoder
  • See this page at the WinRadio site for receiver compatibility

Professional Software

• Hoka Code 300-32p (Perseus Support)

• Hoka Code 3-32P (Perseus Support)

• Krypto 500

• W-Code by Wavecom

Tutorials and Websites

• Ham Radio Science Many SDR and software reviews
  • Ham Radio Science Forums
• SDR Topics on DX-Zone
• The Weaksignals Home Page of Alberto, I2PHD has the Software Defined Radio Handbook (Eighth Edition) by Pentek.
• SDR# / SDR Sharp Wiki
• Installing BladeRF under Windows 7
• List of SDRs (Wikipedia)

Mailing Lists

Yahoo Groups

• AFEDRI-SDR
• Cross County Wireless
• DDUtil
• Elad SDR
• Flex Radio
• Funcube Dongle Pro
• Funcube Dongle Pro Plus
• Software Radio Laboratory QS1R
• Perseus
• RFSpace SDR14
• PM-SDR
• SoftRadio
• SoftRock 40 Yahoo Group
• SDR Radio.com
• WinRad
• SDR#