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posted by janrinok on Sunday April 15 2018, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-for-the-true-hackers-among-us dept.

We’ve become used to software-defined radio as the future of radio experimentation, and many of us will have some form of SDR hardware. From the $10 RTL USB sticks through to all-singing, all-dancing models at eye-watering prices, there is an SDR for everyone.

What about the idea of an SDR without any external hardware? Instead of plugging something into your Raspberry Pi, how about using the Pi itself, unmodified? That’s just what the Nexmon SDR project has achieved, and this has been made possible through clever use of the on-board Broadcom 802.11ac WiFi chip. The result is a TX-capable SDR, albeit one only capable of operating within the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz spectrum used by WiFi.


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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by nitehawk214 on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:22PM (4 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:22PM (#667349)

    Oh it's maybe going to have a SDR, cool.

    What the actual fuck is a SDR?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @08:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @08:43PM (#667384)

    SDR= SystemD Replacement... it's Poettering's next project.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @09:52PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @09:52PM (#667394)

    We are lucky to live in an age where we have a wealth of information at our fingertips. Try learning to make use of it. If you made the effort then you would know what an SDR is and an intelligent person can infer which definition of SDR is appropriate from context.

    You could have found the answer in the amount of time it took you to ask the question.