Software Defined Radios

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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/Distributor Links

• Elad FDM-77 (discontinued, replaced by FDM-S1)
• Elad FDM-S1
• Flex Radio home page
• SRK QuickSilver QS1R Receiver
• RFSpace Home page
• SoftRock Radio Kits
• TenTec RX340 DSP Receiver (wiki article)
• TenTec RX350D DSP Receiver (wiki article)
• Universal Radio SW Communications Rx page includes several SDR radios
• WinRadio

Reviews

Receivers

• From Dave's Radio Page
  • TenTec RX340
  • JRC NRD545
  • JRC NRD630

Computer Driven

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

Other Receivers

• EHam review of many rxs, including SDR Radios
• UHF Satcom review of the SDR-IQ
• FunCube Dongle

Software Support

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

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

• CuteSDR Open Source Application
  • CuteSDR Yahoo Group

• 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

• HDSDR

• KG-SDR

• Linrad

• Quisk

• Rocky (for the Softrock)

• Shoc

• Shortwave Log
  • The Yahoo group for this software can be found here; however it has its own extensive forums
  • EHam comments on this software can be found here

• SDR# | A Software Defined Radio in C#

• SDR-Radio

• SpectraVue

• Studio1

• SysLabs RadioControl

• Wavebase3

• Winrad

Online Radios

• SDR Radio.com
• Perseus Servers
• N3UJJ On-Line Software Defined Radios for public use

Tutorials

• The Weaksignals Home Page of Alberto, I2PHD has the Software Defined Radio Handbook (Eighth Edition) by Pentek.

Mailing Lists

Yahoo Groups

• DDUtil
• Flex Radio
• Quicksilver QS1R
• Perseus
• RFSpace SDR14
• SoftRadio
• SoftRock 40 Yahoo Group
• SDR Radio.com
• WinRad