Douglass Turner writes: > I'm starting to get up to speed on SDR and had a question about the extent > to which a given SDR device can morph chameleon like into another. For > example, could a WiFi AP be implemented via SDR so that it could play the > dual role of a RFID reader?
We (the Public Software Fund, http://pubsoft.org/) are funding Eric Blossom to work on SDR full-time. He's working on a volksSDR, to be interfaced via USB. Bad news: it's slow. Too slow. Nowhere near the 900 Mhz band, even, much less 2.4 Ghz. And even at that slow rate, it's expensive: estimated to be $300-400 with availability 4Q this year. The DACs will only go up to 50 Mhz, the ADCs up to 200 Mhz. Lots of good info at http://gnuradio.org/ . -- --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Rebecca's incredibly neat Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | County Fair quilt is now 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | at http://rebeccanelson.com/ Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | quilt/index.html -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
