Hi All,
I would like to purchase a good quality SDR to receive VHF and above. I am in a fairly dense signal environment and my ICOM R7000 and R8500 receivers work well. So I would like the SDR to be not only sensitive and selective but reject any images too. Like strong pager and other VHF/UHF signals.
I was thinking of possibly the USRP (either B200 or USRP1 with daughterboard installed). Or possibly another make such as the new Airspy.
For windows programs it should be able to run SDR# or HD-SDR or others and use virtual audio cable to port the audio to DSDPlus, WinDSD, or Unitrunker.
On the Linux side it would be great to run OP-25
(I have a LiveUSB bootable drive with Ubuntu and GNUradio installed)
Finally instead of using the SDR's daughterboard tuner for VHF etc. would it be better to interface the SDR to the 10.7 IF output of the ICOM receiver? Or even tap to the 455KHz IF and use that. I know the USRP LFRX daughterboard can go down that low. Using the 455 KHz would provide triple conversion already in the receiver.
thanks,
Joe
I would like to purchase a good quality SDR to receive VHF and above. I am in a fairly dense signal environment and my ICOM R7000 and R8500 receivers work well. So I would like the SDR to be not only sensitive and selective but reject any images too. Like strong pager and other VHF/UHF signals.
I was thinking of possibly the USRP (either B200 or USRP1 with daughterboard installed). Or possibly another make such as the new Airspy.
For windows programs it should be able to run SDR# or HD-SDR or others and use virtual audio cable to port the audio to DSDPlus, WinDSD, or Unitrunker.
On the Linux side it would be great to run OP-25
(I have a LiveUSB bootable drive with Ubuntu and GNUradio installed)
Finally instead of using the SDR's daughterboard tuner for VHF etc. would it be better to interface the SDR to the 10.7 IF output of the ICOM receiver? Or even tap to the 455KHz IF and use that. I know the USRP LFRX daughterboard can go down that low. Using the 455 KHz would provide triple conversion already in the receiver.
thanks,
Joe