Forum: GNU Radio USB-3 40MHz BW 300MHz -3.8GHz SDR Transceiver 400 USD

For those who didnt see it yet.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bla...

How about these guys ?  http://www.thinkrf.com/products.html



They already have a GNURadio compliant product line.



From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+bill.pretty=xplornet.com@gnu.org
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Behalf
Of Edmund Humenberger
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:54 AM
To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] USB-3 40MHz BW 300MHz -3.8GHz SDR 
Transceiver
400 USD






For those who didnt see it yet.



http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bla...
ed-radio



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William,


Thanks for making me aware of this:

100Khz - 20Ghz for their SDR boards, but their Front ends are:

RFE0108 100 kHz to 10 GHz Radio Front End
   High performance radio receiver front end with frequency tuning range 
of
100 kHz to 10 GHz and capable of processing up to 450 MHz of 
instantaneous
RF bandwidth.

All Impressive INDEED!

I wonder what the pricing for ThinkRF products are and what will the 
BladRF
USB
be priced at?

That is the question, but ALL gorgeous stuff no doubt!

Sincerely,



Martin

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:37 AM, William Pretty Security <

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Martin O'Shield
<martin@windycitysdr.com>wrote:

> of 100 kHz to 10 GHz and capable of processing up to 450 MHz of
> instantaneous RF bandwidth.
>
> All Impressive INDEED!
>
> I wonder what the pricing for ThinkRF products are and what will the
> BladRF USB
> be priced at?
>
>
The bladeRF is definitely nowhere close to what the thinkRF folks are 
doing
- but the market segments are different as well.  The thinkRF guys are 
much
more into high performance/SIGINT whereas bladeRF is good performance 
and
highly integrated yielding a lower cost at the sacrifice of bandwidth.

The bladeRF is based on the LMS6002D RF transceiver with documentation 
here:

  https://github.com/chemeris/lms6002-documentation

The $400 price tag along with the 300MHz - 3.8GHz tuning range, 28MHz of
instantaneous bandwidth and bus powered over USB 3.0 superspeed to get
5Gbps full duplex are the biggest selling points.  Full schematics can 
be
found on the support page or directly:

  http://nuand.com/bladerf.pdf

It's a good SDR for a very palatable price.

Brian

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 01:18:46PM -0500, Brian Padalino wrote:
> [stats about hw]

I'd like to remind people of the
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Hardware
wiki page, which tries to collect a list of GNU Radio-friendly
hardwares, as well as the fact that anyone can edit this page :)

MB
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