{"id":361,"date":"2014-03-15T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-03-15T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T18:29:42","slug":"software-defined-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Software Defined Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been intrigued by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software-defined_radio\">software defined radio<\/a> (SDR) for some time. The basic premise is that many of the components of a radio that were traditionally implemented in hardware, can now be done in software. This includes filters, mixers, amplifiers, modulators, etc.<\/p>\n<p>RTL-SDR came about when someone discovered that with a little software, a cheap USB TV dongle can be used for wider SDR, and I had to see this in action. After a little research, I decided to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Terratec-Receiver-Low-Cost-Software-Defined\/dp\/B00CRDF5WQ\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394907793&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=terratec\">Terratec T-Stick Plus<\/a> (sheesh, the price has risen dramatically) because of the chip used. This particular dongle has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamradioscience.com\/the-rtl2832u-elonics-e4000-sdr-radio-aka-the-20-sdr\/\">Elonics E400o chipset<\/a>, supposedly one of the better choices.<\/p>\n<p>The software was a bit of a beast to set up (first I tried on OS X, big mistake) but I finally have something going. I haven&#8217;t fiddled with it much yet, but I can&#8217;t wait to try and put that RF school-learning to some proper use. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-362\" alt=\"RTLSDR\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RTLSDR-300x217.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RTLSDR-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RTLSDR-1024x742.png 1024w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RTLSDR-900x652.png 900w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RTLSDR.png 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been intrigued by software defined radio (SDR) for some time. The basic premise is that many of the components of a radio that were traditionally implemented in hardware, can now be done in software. This includes filters, mixers, amplifiers, modulators, etc. RTL-SDR came about when someone discovered that with a little software, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software Defined Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}