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Progress On My Software-Defined Radio

My homebrew software-defined radio tunes and captures 8MHz of FM broadcast spectrum, and I demodulate it using GNU Radio. Continue reading

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Software Radio Baseband Digitizer PCB

I’m plugging away at building an inexpensive, high-bandwidth software-defined radio receiver. I built a bunch of PLL+VCO boards, filter boards, and quadrature mixer boards. But I still don’t have a good ADC to sample the signals I’m receiving. No longer! … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 3)

In the last two parts, I used my homebrew software-defined radio to receive weather image signals from the NOAA-19 satellite and spent some time trying to calculate the satellite’s speed using frequency shift measurements. This time around, I’m going to … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 2, and a Chronulator contest)

Quick recap: In part 1, I captured weather satellite signals with my software-defined radio prototype, using the audio input on my laptop. So, what can be done with these captured signals? The first thing I did after recording the NOAA-19 … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 1)

I attempt to receive weather satellite signals with my software radio prototype — with surprisingly good results! Continue reading

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