SO many good people writing so much neat stuff for LInux... Wonder if anyone on this list is playing with gnuradio or linrad? If unfamiliar, gnuradio is a software defined radio project and is far enough along enable HDTV reception Imagine, off the air or cable, HDTV recording.
linrad is primarily aimed at weak signal reception with guys communicating successfully by bouncing low power (100W) radio signals off the moon. Both will work with your PeeCee soundcard but for HDTV, gnuradio needs an A/D that can handle the bandwidth of the HDTV signal. Have gotten both to compile and run on the Fujitsu A1010 laptop here. Soundcard seems a little noisy but have not compared to anything else. There are soundcards available with 24bits and 96kHz sample rate, so a decent radio for modes with bandwidth up to 40kHz or so can be had for not many $. I'm particularly interested in the hardware aspects of getting the radio signals digitzed. -bob
