[time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion ?

[Chris Albertson]

Yes, but the TV tuners do all the "hard part" that is getting a big chunk
of bandwidth into your computer.   You have to build a mixer and a LO to
down or up convert the RF to what the tuner can handle but LOs and mixers
and filters are the easy part


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Lizeth Norman <normanlizeth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Gents,
> These things are limited in usefulness by themselves. They need decent
> filtering and preamps for any weak signal stuff.
> If all you want to do receive the local channels, then these are for you!
> Norm n3ykf
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Don Latham <djl at montana.com> wrote:
>
> > About $85 US. But a TV tuner type is about $24.
> >
> > J. Forster
> > > Has anyone played with this thing?
> > >
> > > http://microsat.com.pl/product_info.php?products_id=35
> > >
> > > If you add a laptop, is the thing a complete radio? It seems to be far
> > > too
> > > cheap to believe.
> > >
> > > -John
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Chris Albertson
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