64: Software Radios

Pragmatic returns to talk about a recent melding of traditional radio technology and software that are now dominating the telecommunications world.
With Carmen Parisi and John Chidgey.

Miscellaneous Links:

• Reverse Engineering a Qualcomm baseband (PDF)
• Morse code
• Radio
• Narrowband
• Pragmatic 39: Look Ma, No Wires
• Pragmatic 5: The Next Ubiquitous Thing
• Quadrature amplitude modulation
• Frequency mixer
• Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
• Digital signal processor

IQ modulation tutorials:

• Alan Wolke W2AEW
• Analog Zoo

Intro to SDR Kits:

• Software Defined Radio: $40ish SDR using a hacked European HDTV setup (RTL2832U). The chip has a feature where it can spit out the raw IQ data instead of the specific demodulated TV stream. It’s definitely hacky and it can’t transmit but it’s a relatively low cost intro into SDRs.
• Adafruit SDR: Basic set-up from Adafruit that’s all contained in one easy USB dongle using the same IC as above.
• Ossmans Kit: Not exactly a beginner’s kit in the sense that it’s cheap ($300 plus antenna) but probably one of the most full-featured starter’s out there sold by Mike Ossmann. He’s currently got a 9 video course available online to go with the HACK RF.
• Mike Ossmans Video Course or he also teaches two day seminars on SDRs at security conferences across the globe.

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