I too saw the article - slashdot got it from hackaday I think..
In any event, hackaday links to useful sites. That particular model does ~1mhz bandwidth at 8bit.. The range in the videos that ive seen indicate quite a large spectrum.. Somewhere between 0-500mhz I think. Some model I know go a little higher than that and are still cheap.
Im going to be playing with this, my father ordered one a few days ago... Im sure other members will be playing with them too.
Next year at muug someones going to have to do a presentation on this stuff and sdr in general.
Rob
Sent from a mobile device near you. On Apr 8, 2012 7:08 PM, "Mike pfaiffer" high.res.mike@gmail.com wrote:
I saw an article on Slashdot the other day which suggested it mightbe possible to get some hardware using the RTL2832U chipset for $11.00. A quick search of Google seems to indicate it is fairly well supported with Linux. Since the article was about Software Defined Radio (HF) rather than the TV part of the device I was wondering if anybody locally had tried it out... I would guess apart from the article, the only info I'd be able to get would be about the TV part. What are the ranges of the chipset? How reliable is it? One fellow from the Seniors Radio Club suggested a kit for around $20.00 which should have a similar range (minus the TV). Is the idea even worth following up?
I think for around $11.00 it would be a good introduction to SDRand digital TV.
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