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  • What do normal people use SDRs for? I'm genuinely curious. Or is it just cool to do?
    by sigbottle
  • Thanks claude
    by asdff
  • Having done repairs on a ton of older service monitors, and having my hand in SDR, this is amazing! There's a huge amount of machining and hardware to make a service monitor, but with desktop CNC, cheap PCBS, and jelly bean components that go into the 10s of GHz, the sky's the limit.

    I'd add a heat sunk 100 watt DC-5Ghz 20dB fixed attenuator, 0-110 dB switched attenuator, 5 ghz low pass filter, 7-12 Ghz local oscillator/mixer up/down converter, and it would make a small, very high performance service monitor good to 5 Ghz. 8)

    by mikewarot
  • Is this kind of thing why samsung asks you to sign a contract before letting third parties use the FM radios on their phones? Because many phone radios nowadays are software defined?
    by alightsoul
  • Wow that's super cool! It's not DC to daylight but I sure don't know a cheaper way to get a 320 Msps receiver at 5 GHz.
    by aftbit
  • FYI, since it's the same chipset I'm pretty certain this will work on the Banana Pi R4, which has built in PCIe for NVMe.
    by thebeardisred
  • Dope,guys at espargos did the same thing in esp32, there is another 5ghz variant with same LAN port that can give broader sweep and more resolution.

    https://espargos.net/espsdr/

    by ram_rattle
  • This same devloper also built an SDR out of an ESP32 Wi-Fi microcontroller [1], this is awesome!

    This development makes me hope that we'd be seeing more of these on common Wi-Fi cards, so that every random laptop could be used as an SDR for many fun and useful applications on a budget.

    https://github.com/h0m3us3r/eSpDR

    by yonatan8070

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