{"id":3639,"date":"2012-03-31T19:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2012-03-31T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:49:17","slug":"software-defined-radio-from-a-usb-tv-capture-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"Software defined radio from a USB TV capture card"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So far, two USB sticks have been tested and the unit with the largest frequency range (64 \u2013 1700 MHz) is available direct from China for $20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/03\/20\/software-defined-radio-from-a-usb-tv-capture-card\/\">Software defined radio from a USB TV capture card &#8211; Hack a Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These cards demodulate the frequency and send\u00a0<em>all<\/em> the data to the computer and is decoded via software.\u00a0If you have one of these capture cards lying around, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/sdr.osmocom.org\/trac\/wiki\/rtl-sdr\">grab the software<\/a>\u00a0and load it up on your *nix box. Right now, the software only writes directly to a file, and may drop a few samples if writing to a hard disk instead of ram. Small problems, but we\u2019re sure this project will pick up steam in the very near future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, two USB sticks have been tested and the unit with the largest frequency range (64 \u2013 1700 MHz) is available direct from China for $20. via Software defined radio from a USB TV capture card &#8211; Hack a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}