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[Discuss-gnuradio] Suggestions for newbies?
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James Longstreet |
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Suggestions for newbies? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 May 2006 15:40:39 -0500 |
Hello,
I recently started reading about Gnu Radio, and I think it would make
a great project for my university's ACM chapter. My EE/radio
experience is pretty much limited to RadioShack kits and building a
shortwave receiver, but I have lots of programming experience. I'm
confident that I can wrap my head around the concepts at least enough
to make things work.
From everything I've read, it seems that the USRP is the way to go
for hardware - relatively inexpensive, designed to work with Gnu
Radio, and general enough to allow for just about anything. What can
I hope to accomplish with a USRP - AM/FM radio? TV? HDTV?
Also, what kind of timeframe would be reasonable for playing around
with this? Should I expect to be able to receive FM radio the day I
take my USRP out of the box, or will I have to fiddle with things for
a few weeks/months? I don't mind spending time with it, but I'd like
to know what I'm getting myself into before I spend $700 on it.
What reading should I do to get up to speed on concepts I'm going to
be running into? I understand radio at a conceptual level, but DSP
and things like that are foreign to me.
Thank you,
James Longstreet
System Administrator
Association for Computing Machinery
University of Illinois at Chicago
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