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Offline Labviewguru

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$100 SDR
« on: September 01, 2013, 0105 UTC »
I went to the Shelby Hamfest today and met Sam from 3dbSDR. He was offering an assembled SDR for $100. After talking him to death about SDR and noting that it didn't say "Collins" or "Hallicrafters" anywhere on it, he demonstrated it for me.

http://3dbsdr.com/

This thing was awesome. I'm going to get one. This is better than internet porn. This is a 1.8 - 30 mHz receiver - only system. They are working on a continuous coverage receiver to 1 Ghz.

Please note that I have no connection whatsoever with the company and I don't receive any remuneration whatsoever from your purchase. I'm not giving up Collins, Icom and Hallicrafters, but this thing was neat to operate.
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Re: $100 SDR
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2013, 0214 UTC »
Well Labview, I've been looking for an affordable way to dip my toe into the SDR waters.  Thanks for the heads up.  I will pre-order one of these also.  That way, if I likee, I will spendee more later on.  Who knows.  Mebbe even Mr. Fansome will be tempted by this...
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Re: $100 SDR
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2013, 0050 UTC »
What surprised me:

He has a short antenna up, and the freq he was on was receiving some splatter from another station. He just grabbed the skirt of a filter in a window and moved it down a bit - splatter was gone!

It hit me while I watched the "spectral" window - I can use this thing as a test instrument!

Now, I'm all about setting at me desk slowly twisting the dial on a receiver - and there isn't much better than the smell of dust cooking on top of a 5U4 vacuum tube - but this was awesome. I was thinking - I've done a lot of microcontroller programming - maybe I can put a knob on an "L" bracket and every time the micro sees a pulse from the encoder, it sends a virtual "frequency- down - arrow." A real radio has knobs, after all.
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Re: $100 SDR
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2013, 0514 UTC »
Anyone know if this sdr will work w/ any of the *nix flavors?
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Re: $100 SDR
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2013, 2248 UTC »
Anyone know if this sdr will work w/ any of the *nix flavors?

It does not work with Raspberry
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Re: $100 SDR
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2014, 2125 UTC »
Ths Softrock Ensemble II SDR receiver kits are also a very good deal at $68. You just have to be able to assemble them yourself. They cover the same frequency range. This may be one of the best entry-level SDR units available.
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