If I offered you the secret to the $11 spectrum analyzer & software-defined radio, what would you promise me? Your firstborn? Treasures of gold and diamonds. Well, I'll consider the latter. Here it is ...

When the first USB DTV receivers came out with tuners covering 54–806 MHz, I wondered if any of them could be modified into an inexpensive spectrum analyzer. Thanks to RealTek and some Linux kernel ...

Two years ago, I wrote about using an inexpensive RTL2832-based DVB/DAB USB dongle as a spectrum analyzer and receiver. (See “Software-Defined Radios Help Explore RF Spectrum,” July 11, 2012). It is ...

Radio seems to be an unofficial theme for The Hackaday Prize, with a few wireless frameworks for microcontrollers and software defined radios making their way into the quarterfinal selection.

Software-defined radio (SDR) is a very powerful concept. Its technologies provide software implementation of modulation, interference management, and capacity enhancement techniques over a broad ...

ThinkRF Corp., a software-defined spectrum analysis solution provider, has released the ThinkRF R5700 Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer with GNSS. Unlike other handheld portable spectrum analyzers, the ...

One of the best known of SDR suppliers to both military and civilian customers is the RF Communications Division of Harris Corporation. Harris, selected by the DoD's JTRS Joint Program Office for the ...