Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software defined antenna

[rhubbell]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 16:20 -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> rhubbell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After being on-frequency here for a little while I can see that the
> > range of experience/expertise is wide. Which is great.
> > 
> > I'm curious if any long-timers have begun to look at software defined
> > antennas?  Or is there any effort at all anywhere in the public domain?
> > I guess military and universities don't really count for public as much
> > as they once did, but I'd guess they're working toward SDA also.
> 
> I'm not sure just what you mean by "software defined antenna" but Vic 

An antenna defined by software.
Apparently it's known as beam-forming. But I don't know much about it.

> Kean, K1LT, has been using an array of short vertical antennas fed to 
> multiple ADCs and phased in software to receive on the 160M amateur 
> band.  I don't have URLs handy, but I know he's made some postings about 
> his work.  Searching for "K1LT" and "SDR" would be a good start.

Thanks will have a look.


> 
> John