Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR software

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

If you're willing to do a fair bit of work (and learning and experimenting)
yourself, then I suspect you can SDR for peanuts:

http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/

http://homepages.wightcable.net/~g4zfq/Si570.htm

This is the Softrock kit, versions of which can cover MW apparently.  I have no
experience of these, but the very capable Sdr-radio software can run them (no
cost)....prices under $100 for the hardware kits...when available.



best wishes,

Nick


-- 
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC


 

Quoting "HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>:

> Agree - For me $850 may as well be $1000 or $2000.  I have never owned
> an expensive rig for any bands that I DX on.  Look at the Sony HD Tuner
> for FM DX'ing.  It competes against tuners costing five times as much.
> I can justify a $70 purchase but not a $400 one, just to DX the FM band.
> Plus, I now have a decent tuner for general listening.    
> 
> I am hoping that some less expensive SDR units eventually come to the
> marketplace.  And when I mean "less expensive," I'm talking below $250.
> Obviously since these are not consumerist offerings, there is no mass
> market discounts.  Unless somebody can try to mass market these as
> something like "Tivo for radio" or some other way of generating mass
> interest beyond DX'ers, the prices will probably stay above $500.
> 
> 73,
> Dave in Indy
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 11:44:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR software
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> 
> Thanks Chuck and Nick, although in the one case, we're quibbling over $2
> <g>. 
> 
> Even so, I have trouble justifying $850 though. I don't think I've spent
> that much cumulatively over my years in the hobby, considering two
> HQ-150's and two ICF 2010's. For the record, I bought my first HQ-150
> used in 1969.
> 
> 
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
> Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
> AM:? Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 1/8/11, Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR software
> > To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 1:50 PM
> > Excalibur is $850 at Grove, 
> > Russ....http://www.grove-ent.com/excalibur.html???Detailed
> > review 
> > appeared in DX Monitor just recently...and of course, none
> > of the 
> > analog receivers covered the full BCB either!? Mine
> > cover one channel 
> > at a time, and they need a separate audio recorder for that
> > channel...
> > 
> > A bit more later.???This is an interesting
> > topic, and I'm surprised 
> > how few comments there have been on Mike's post so far.
> > 
> > best wishes,
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
> > At 15:00 08-01-11, you wrote:
> > >I was ( although I didn't say so ) excluding the SDR-IQ
> > completely 
> > >on account of that very big limitation. If you want to
> > cover the 
> > >full BCB, it isn't happening today for under a grand so
> > far as I know.
> > >
> > >Russ Edmunds
> > >15 mi NNW of Philadelphia
> > >Grid FN20id
> > ><wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15';
> > Grundig G8
> > >AM:? Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot
> > >
> 
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