GNU Radio

Max Hyre writes "Apropos (!= man -k :-) RIAA, web radio, and other such data-dispersal disagreements, here's a new way to do it your way: a fully software-driven radio receiver; just strap some off-the-shelf DAC hardware into a generic computer, and let the software do the rest. While I can just barely spell `sideband', this looks like it could be more fun than any set you ever had before, especially after those in the know build up some kewl apps for the great unwashed like me. They're also dreaming of GPS, cellular phones, &c.. My only gripe is that the web pages proper don't seem to have any cookbook recipes for the hardware; maybe that's in the docs with the source, or maybe this is strictly for the experienced, for now."

Comments

Ahhh I can imagine the hordes of geeks now

[Anonymous Coward]

All boasting "I've got a brand GNU radio and it runs Linux"

Great!

[epsalon]

Now I can try out tempest for eliza without need to actually use a radio!

Watching grass, er, multiply

[leonbrooks]

Besides, if you ever HAD monitored cellular, you't realize it's about as interesting as watching grass grow.

That depends on whether you've got a `transmit' button or not.

One place I worked at left a scanner running in the main office (the boss was more than a bit weird), and one day we got an entire 20-minute conversation between husband (on mobile) and wife (on land-line) discussing the previous weekend's partner-swapping exercise, ratings and so on, exploring the prospects for a repeat and so on.

Towards the end wife asked if it was wise to discuss this on the 'phone and husband returned copious assurances that since he was on a mobile (but evidently sitting still) the conversation would be chopped up across channels and nobody could make head or tail of it.

And me with no transmit button. Sigh.