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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: theszak on September 27, 2013, 2222 UTC

Title: GNUradio software radio
Post by: theszak on September 27, 2013, 2222 UTC

What's a more basic explanation of what is GNUradio? What is software radio? it's not completely clear what GNUradio/software radio is even for all the information about GNUradio/software radio via
http://google.com/search?q=gnuradio
http://google.com/search?q=software+radio

Title: Re: GNUradio software radio
Post by: Kage on September 28, 2013, 1548 UTC

This may be an oversimplification and I could be wrong but I think it is nothing more than an interface to bridge the high level user software like GQRX (for example) with low level OS software that handles the hardware ports and other items needed to connect with the actual hardware of the SDR radio itself.

I am new to this SDR stuff myself and will be getting a NooElec RTL2832U/R820T dongle soon enough to play with. Already installed the software for linux but still waiting for the radio to be shipped ;D