NotPike Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 (edited) So... yah... The Maker/Hacker space that I'm apart of received a donation a wile back of around $6K worth of Ettus Research SDR Peripheral's and accompanying daughterboards... Like literally, these radios where sitting in a box for years now and no one wanted to play with them! Because I'm the resident subject matter expert on SDR for the club (which isn't saying much lol) I'm now responsible fore these bad mama jamas. I'm sitting on 3 USRP's, 1x USRP1, 2x USRP2's, 21x daughterboards with Tx/Rx frequency ranges of 1-2500MHz, and box full of accessories. The USRP2's and most of these daughterboards are legacy and there's no more support for them I bet they can still do a thing. So my question to you guys is what fun "Activities" should I do with them? I'm trying to create a small demo to show off the capabilities to the club to create internist in SDR. My first thought was a build an OpenBTS base station on the ISM band but the UHF daughterboards I'm working with (FLEX900) doesn't want to work. Another Idea I had was to create a RX time share and host it on the clubs web sight but that might be a wile before that's potable. I'm open to Ideas. Here's the list of what we have. 1X USRP12X USRP22X BasicTX 1-250MHz Tx3X TX Daughterboard 1-250MHz Tx2X FLEX2400 2400-2500MHz Tx/Rx2X FLEX400 400-500MHz Tx/Rx2X FLEX900 750-1050Mhz Tx/Rx2X DBSRX 800-2400MHz Rx2X DBSRX-LF 800-2400MHz Rx3X RX Daughterboard 1-250MHz Rx2X BasicRX 1-250MHz Rx1X TV Tuner Edited May 8, 2016 by NotPike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 the UHF daughterboards I'm working with (FLEX900) doesn't want to work. I know nothing about the subject, but I'd say your best bet is to elaborate a bit on this and maybe bring this up with the OsmoComm folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Josef K Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) If you're looking for some ideas for SDR, check out the Defcon presentation of Balint Seeber "All your RFz are belong to me" [1]. It's VERY inspirational. The coolest part IMHO is when they reboot a 36 year old satellite [2] by leveraging the USRP and the Arecibo [3] telescope in Puerto Rico (from the James Bond movie Goldeneye). [1] https://youtu.be/1bgC3AjCnA4?t=6m06s [2] https://www.ettus.com/blog/2014/07/contacting-a-36-year-old-space-craft-why-not [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory Edited May 10, 2016 by Josef K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotPike Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 If you're looking for some ideas for SDR, check out the Defcon presentation of Balint Seeber "All your RFz are belong to me" [1]. It's VERY inspirational. The coolest part IMHO is when they reboot a 36 year old satellite [2] by leveraging the USRP and the Arecibo [3] telescope in Puerto Rico (from the James Bond movie Goldeneye). [1] https://youtu.be/1bgC3AjCnA4?t=6m06s [2] https://www.ettus.com/blog/2014/07/contacting-a-36-year-old-space-craft-why-not [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory Yah that was a good talk, I remember seeing that a wile back. I just bought The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR so I'm sifting threw that book ATM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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