{"id":8655,"date":"2014-01-22T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2014-01-22T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:43:11","slug":"video-build-your-own-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/video-build-your-own-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Build your own SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: <a title=\"Ham Radio Now TV\" href=\"http:\/\/HamRadioNow.tv\" target=\"_blank\">HamRadioNow<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0the <a title=\"Southgate ARC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/2014\/january\/hamradionow_episode_116.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28Southgate+Amateur+Radio+News%29#.Us_iVWRDvLi\" target=\"_blank\">Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Need that title decoded? MDSR = Modulator\/Demodulator Software Radio. DIY = Do It Yourself (DOH! I knew that), and SDR&#8230; can you guess? Yes! Software Defined Radio. OK?<\/p>\n<p>So, in this episode,\u00a0<strong>Alex Schwarz VE7DXW<\/strong>\u00a0will tell you about doing SDR on the cheap, using stuff you already have (a conventional SSB radio and your computer), plus their inexpensive interface. You pull RF out of your radio&#8217;s IF (some are easier to get into than others), run it thru their board, and into your computer for demodulation, filters&#8230; all the usual SDR stuff. And they&#8217;re just introducing the Transmit side of the equation.<\/p>\n<p>Their web site is:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/myspace\/mdsr\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/myspace\/mdsr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch HamRadioNow Episode 116 from the DCC: MDSR (DIY SDR)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCaE1sxh6dI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: HamRadioNow\u00a0via\u00a0the Southgate ARC) &#8220;Need that title decoded? MDSR = Modulator\/Demodulator Software Radio. DIY = Do It Yourself (DOH! I knew that), and SDR&#8230; can you guess? Yes! Software Defined Radio. OK? So, in this episode,\u00a0Alex Schwarz VE7DXW\u00a0will tell you about doing SDR on the cheap, using stuff you already have (a conventional SSB radio [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,158,304],"tags":[2530,2529,2531,157],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-software-defined-radio","category-videos","tag-diy-sdr","tag-ham-radio-now","tag-mdsr","tag-sdr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35530,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-nsas-software-defined-radio-application-redhawk-is-now-open-source\/","url_meta":{"origin":8655,"position":0},"title":"The NSA&#8217;s Software Defined Radio application &#8220;RedHawk&#8221; is now open source","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrew, who writes: Not kidding, a friend told me that NSA released a bunch of software to open source, the main list being here: https:\/\/code.nsa.gov\/ While looking at the list of projects on that page, halfway down the page, I found a project called\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/REDHAWK_ScreenShot_scaled.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/REDHAWK_ScreenShot_scaled.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/REDHAWK_ScreenShot_scaled.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/REDHAWK_ScreenShot_scaled.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23468,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/cloud-sdr-a-remote-access-system-for-a-number-of-popular-sdrs\/","url_meta":{"origin":8655,"position":1},"title":"Cloud-SDR: a remote access system for a number of popular SDRs","author":"Thomas","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Sylvain (F4GKR), who writes: I am Sylvain, from Cloud-SDR, a new company selling software to get remote access to your existing SDR receivers through the Internet. 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