Listen to radio station fm or am

GNU Radio
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Hi,

I wanted to try connecting to a radio station and listening to it. Is
there a command for this? … such as usrp_fft.py (which is for other
use), etc?

I have 2rfx1800 and the 64mhz stock clock.

Thanks in advance,
Walter

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Hi Walter,

you can use usrp_wfm.py, it is on the gnuradio examples. However you
must
worry about frequencies if you inted to listen comercial AM or FM
stations,

Edmar

2011/7/25 Walter B. [email protected]

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Thanks all for the answer! I believe though that I cannot listen to
radio stations because the daughterboards RFX 1800 range from 1.5GHz to
2.1GHz which is only for cell phones?

4

Hi,

There is an (older) article on listening to FM radio in Linux Journal
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7505

It’s good to understand how GNU Radio and the demod chain works, and
what the parameters of usrp_wfm.py do.

However, on the hardware side you need the TVRX or WBX board to tune to
the right frequencies.

Matthias

Am 26.07.2011 um 13:48 schrieb Walter B.:

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On 26/07/2011 7:48 AM, Walter B. wrote:

Thanks all for the answer! I believe though that I cannot listen to
radio stations because the daughterboards RFX 1800 range from 1.5GHz to
2.1GHz which is only for cell phones?

That is correct, Walter.

Can I suggest that if you’re going to head down the path of Software
Defined Radio development that you get yourself a couple of
books to give you the necessary background in both radio and signal
processing?

   o Any recent edition of the ARRL handbook has very good

introductory chapters on radio
o Handy set of references here: