Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

[Paul Miller]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Frank Brickle <address@hidden> wrote:
> If what you want is to get your fingers into the software, assemble your own
> soft radios, you definitely, positively, absolutely want to use GNU Radio as
> the software backend. That's one of the things it's for and it does the job
> wonderfully. Once you get the hang you can put together a new application in
> minutes. I myself am right now in the process of developing some new
> features for DttSP and am prototyping them all in GNU Radio first.
>
> A decent soundcard is a must, though.

I'm pretty sure GNUradio is the way I want to go then.  You, and
others on this list-thread, seem to suggest the sr40 can indeed be
used with GNUradio, iff you have a decent sound card.  ... am I
reading that right?

I'm just trying to get my feet wet on the subject, so the $8 - $50
pricetag is easier to swallow than $700-$1400.  I'm assuming there's a
huge amount of limitations with the sr40 over the USRP, but it can be
used successfully.  That's interesting.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Stan Slonkosky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD, in March 2006, said he had made a crude  first
> version of a demodulator for the softrock. See
> http://www.zerobeat.in/gnuradio/sr40 .

Everything about the sr40 seems "crude" but it's interesting to note
that I wouldn't even have to start from scratch.


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