My first SDR was the little SDR-IQ made by RF space, I have seen them in the $400 range on Ebay.. it is the whole HF spectrum....
there are cheaper single band kits and real cheap VHF / UHF SDR thingys.. I think the best bargain though is the Flex 3000 they can be had for a bit over $1000 and its full 100watts built in ant tuner and so fourth... I had one and sold it after my wife bought me a maxed out Flex 5000 as an aniversary gift.. ( I have an amazing wife,.. ha ha) .. There are people using the SDR boxes with regular old fashioned Ham Radios just for the displays.. I heard a guy n the air with a big dog ICOM 7800 (about $10000) with a flex 3000 hooked into the IF just so he had the FLEX display... A lot of guys use the little RFSPACE SDR box as an IF display on many kinds of old fashioned Ham radios, there is a lot on that over on Youtube... Well anyway, its soething I am passionate about ...haha Eddie (NU5K) -----Original Message----- From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:49 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Cc: Jonathan Guthrie Subject: Re: [BVARC] Software Defined Radio (SDR) users. It seems to me that pretty much all of the SDR stuff is pretty high end stuff. I mean, the ANAN-10E is $1000 and you still need a pretty powerful computer to actually do something with it. The SDR kit (the Peaberry) that's been 95% assembled on my bench for a couple of months now is even $200 and that doesn't count the hours and hours of surface-mount soldering it requires to build. On 8/19/2015 10:43 AM, Rick Hiller via BVARC wrote: > Gary, > > Are you familiar with TAPR -- Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (Google it) > > The have a group dedicated to HPSDR's....pretty high end stuff. > > GL.....Rick -- W5RH > > -----Original Message----- > From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Sitton > via BVARC > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:22 AM > To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> > Cc: Gary Sitton <[email protected]> > Subject: [BVARC] Software Defined Radio (SDR) users. > > SDRers: > > I would like to get in touch with anyone using Flex or ANAN > SDRs. I am a DSP consultant and amateur radio enthusiast. If > possible I would like to form a group of interested Hams using or > wanting to use SDRs. My goal is to educate, where possible, and > gather information from amateurs regarding their concerns or problems with high end SDRs. > > TNX & 73, > > Gary Sitton, K5AMH > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org -- Jonathan Guthrie KA8KPN _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
