GNU Radio - create your own software-defined radio device

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I don't have much familiarity with GNU Radio, and as people have mentioned, it doesn't have much recent activity. However, if you want to hear a software defined radio in action you can listen to and tune one here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

Also, if you are interested affordable SDR check out the SoftRock yahoo group. They are very active and the hardware is inexpensive (~$70 USD).

73 N1JER

Not the most informative URL to share for the project -- like the top of the page says, most of the action seems to be in the mailing list (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2009-05/t...) and trac (http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki)

Yay, with a front page prominently showing off the latest release, in March 2007. Feels alive!

From maddan's link to http://gnuradio.wordpress.com/

"You’ll need a frontend hardware to capture the signal, preferably the USRP (which could cost as much as $1500 with daughterboards)"

Ouch, $1,500! I would love to tinker, but $1,500 is a solid investment.

It does seem very expensive but the things you can do with it seem awesome, for instance a GSM base station http://www.kestrelsp.com/FieldTest/index.html. I guess you could even use it to do some van eck phreaking.

here is also a good resource: http://gnuradio.wordpress.com

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