[time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion ?

[Magnus Danielson]

On 08/06/2013 05:30 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> 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
Your HF you can force-feed inbetween the tuner-chip and the RTL chip if
you got a bit of LNA to get the swing up. There are some tuners that has
a bypass option to enable. The RTL has a limited tuner itself.

There is a few interesting software and hardware hacks. It's quite
capable platforms, considering that it was intended for a different
application. :)

Cheers,
Magnus