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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

Reviews

Receivers

From Dave's Radio Page

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

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

Tutorials

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

Mailing Lists

Yahoo Groups

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 ==Manufacturer/Distributor Links==
+* [http://www.afedri-sdr.com/ AFEDRI SDR-Net]
+* [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defined-radio BladeRF]
+* [http://www.commradio.com/ CommRadio CR-1]
+* [http://www.crosscountrywireless.net/sdr-4.htm Cross Country Wireless SDR-4 General Coverage Rx]
 * [http://ecom.eladit.com/epages/990298944.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/990298944/Products/%22ELAD%20FDM-77%22 Elad FDM-77 (discontinued, replaced by FDM-S1)]
 * [http://ecom.eladit.com/epages/990298944.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/990298944/Products/%22ELAD%20FDM-S1%22 Elad FDM-S1]
 * [http://www.flex-radio.com/ Flex Radio home page]
+* [http://www.funcubedongle.com/ Funcube Dongle]
 * [http://www.srl-llc.com/ SRK QuickSilver QS1R Receiver]
 * [http://www.rfspace.com/RFSPACE/Home.html RFSpace Home page]
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 * [http://www.tentecwiki.org/doku.php?id=rx-340 TenTec RX340 DSP Receiver (wiki article)]
 * [http://www.tentecwiki.org/doku.php?id=rx-350d TenTec RX350D DSP Receiver (wiki article)]
+* [http://www.amazon.com/NooElec-RTL-SDR-RTL2832U-Software-Packages/dp/B008S7AVTC/?tag=vglnk-c818-20 RTL-SDR Software Dongle (via Amazon)]
+* [http://www.amazon.com/Receiver-RTL2832U-Compatible-Packages-Guaranteed/dp/B009U7WZCA/?tag=vglnk-c818-20 TV28T and RTL-SDR Receiver (via Amazon)]
 * [http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/commrxvr.html Universal Radio SW Communications Rx page] includes several SDR radios
 * [[WinRadio]]