Sorry, I misuderstood you.
The USRP has given those interested in gnuradio software radio a common platform on which to meet and experiment. From what I can tell from nothing more than seeing names and emails go by on the gnuradio list, there are a good number of very talented people working off USRP, but that number is not yet large. Given these names and addresses are taken presumably from all over the world, it may be tough at this point to get a SIG going around gnuradio on USRP in SoCal.
But I agree: gnuradio gives the ordinary technophile and technlogist the ability to do real software radio. How cool is that.
And note that "radio" means most anything within the radio spectrum, not what laypersons traditionally think of as radio.
A few weeks ago, John Gilmore (who got the project going as an FSF project) gave me a demo at his home. Much mind-blowing involved, for someone who is not a technologist. '-)
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