{"id":31786,"date":"2018-04-27T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31786"},"modified":"2018-04-27T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:52:35","slug":"turning-the-raspberry-pi-3-b-into-a-stand-alone-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/turning-the-raspberry-pi-3-b-into-a-stand-alone-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ into a stand-alone SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: RTL-SDR.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Nexmon SDR: Using the WiFi chip on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a TX capable SDR<\/a><\/h2>\n

Back in March of this year\u00a0we posted<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0Nexmon SDR<\/a>\u00a0which is code that you can use to turn a\u00a0Broadcom\u00a0BCM4339 802.11ac WiFi chip into a TX capable SDR that is capable of transmitting any arbitrary signal from IQ data within the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi bands. In commercial devices the\u00a0BCM4339 was most commonly found in the Nexus 5 smartphone.<\/p>\n

Recently Nexmon have tweeted that their code now supports the\u00a0BCM43455c0 which is the WiFi chip used in the recently released Raspberry Pi 3B+. They write that the previous Raspberry Pi 3B (non-plus) cannot be used with Nexmon as it only has 802.11n, but since the 3B+ has 802.11ac Nexmon is compatible.<\/p>\n

Combined with\u00a0RPiTX<\/a>\u00a0which is a Raspberry Pi tool for transmitting arbitrary RF signals using a GPIO pin between 5 kHz to 1500 MHz, the Raspberry Pi 3B+ may end up becoming a versatile low cost TX SDR just on it’s own.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at RTL-SDR.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: RTL-SDR.com) Nexmon SDR: Using the WiFi chip on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a TX capable SDR Back in March of this year\u00a0we posted\u00a0about\u00a0Nexmon SDR\u00a0which is code that you can use to turn a\u00a0Broadcom\u00a0BCM4339 802.11ac WiFi chip into a TX capable SDR that is capable of transmitting any arbitrary signal from IQ data within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[627,3,158],"tags":[2627,6949,6238,157,4087],"class_list":["post-31786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-software-defined-radio","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberry-pi-3-b","tag-rtl-sdr-com","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8gG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24542,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-a-flightaware-ads-b-feeder-with-a-raspberry-pi-3-and-rtl-sdr-dongle\/","url_meta":{"origin":31786,"position":0},"title":"Making a FlightAware ADS-B feeder with a Raspberry Pi 3 and RTL-SDR dongle","author":"Thomas","date":"March 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been nearly a year since I acquired both the RTL-SDR\u00a0(above) and Rasperry Pi 3\u00a0(below)r. 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