Monday, December 15, 2008

QEX: A Software-Defined Radio for the Masses, Part 2

Part 1 gave a general description of digital signal processing (DSP) in software-defined radios (SDRs).1 It also provided an overview of a full-featured radio that uses a personal computer to perform all DSP functions. This article begins design implementation with a complete description of software that provides a full-duplex interface to a standard PC sound card.

To perform the magic of digital signal processing, we must be able to convert a signal from analog to digital and back to analog again. Most amateur experimenters already have this capability in their shacks and many have used it for slow-scan television or the new digital modes like PSK31.

More at http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/020910qex010.pdf

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