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Revision as of 14:48, 23 February 2013
What is Software Defined Radio (or SDR)? Wikipedia gives a definition...
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
Contents
Manufacturer/Distributor Links
- AFEDRI SDR-Net
- BladeRF
- CommRadio CR-1
- Cross Country Wireless SDR-4 General Coverage Rx
- Elad FDM-77 (discontinued, replaced by FDM-S1)
- Elad FDM-S1
- FiFi SDR
- Flex Radio home page
- Funcube Dongle
- RFSpace Home page
- Distributor list for SDR-IQ, NetSDR, and SDR-IP
- RF-System PM-SDR
- TV301U/E4000 and TV28T v2/R820T USB
- SoftRock Radio Kits
- SRK QuickSilver QS1R Receiver
- WinRadio G31DDC Excalibur
- WinRadio G39DDC Excelsior
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
- Microtelecom Perseus (eHam review)
- The Perseus SDR (PDF)
- Other Receivers
- The AFEDRI SDR-Net Some Impressions (PDF)
- The Afedri SDR-NET - First Looks
- FunCube Dongle
- The RFSpace NET SDR (PDF)
- RF Space SDR-IQ (PDF)
- UHF Satcom review of the SDR-IQ
- The WinRadio G31 DDC Excalibur SDR (PDF)
- The WinRadio G33DDC Excalibur Pro (PDF)
- eHam Reviews
- AFEDRI SDR-NET
- Elad FDM-S1
- Eladit FDM-77
- Funcube
- Net-SDR
- Quicksilver QS1R
- RFSpace SDR-14
- RFSpace SDR-IQ
- RF System PM-SDR
- Soft66AD SDR
- Soft66LC4 Software Defined Radio
- WinRadio G31DDC Excalibur
- WinRadio G39DDC Excelsior
Software Support
SDR Specific Applications
Other Applications That Support SDR
- Ham Radio Deluxe
- Comments on EHam about Ham Radio Deluxe can be found here
Tutorials
- The Weaksignals Home Page of Alberto, I2PHD has the Software Defined Radio Handbook (Eighth Edition) by Pentek.
Mailing Lists
- Yahoo Groups