Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] re: Low cost hardware option, the "total GNUsolution"

[Marcus D. Leech]

> Hi All,
>
> I've been following the (lowcost) GNU SDR HW development in progress 
> since it started.
> I sure do not oppose to what you are doing and hope you succeed, but 
> is it practical today?
Practicality is a very important aspect of any project like this, and 
it's one that needs to be explored.

Many components that you would choose aren't practical for amateur 
assembly, and once it's assembled, what kind of
  test equipment exists out there to help with verification, etc?

The SDR-Widget + UHD-SDR makes a pretty-good combination, and clearly 
has been assembled by amateurs.  But if you
  want to move beyond that class of capability (greater bandwidth, 
etc), how "practical" is the result for amateur assembly?
  How practical for professional assembly with amateur-scale pricing?

All critical "up front" questions, to be sure.


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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org