Anyone ? - An SDRplay Radio Used As The Core Module
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:47 pm
( I'm having difficulty putting this into words .... please be patient. )
( What's got me wondering about this .... )
- I have an SDRplay Receiver and use it with SDRuno Software - they are very impressive.
- But ... It seems to me that the receiver module could be used as the core of a more
. comprehensive receiver .... and I am wondering if anyone has done this yet ?
(background)
A long time ago my ham receiver was a Drake R-4B. Other than being somewhat
less mechanically rugged the Drake design seemed to take much of its direction from
that of the Collins 75S Receiver .... especially the permeability-tuned RF Preselector.
(Back to the present)
- Several users have commented on difficulties with images, overloading from
. nearby AM broadcast station, etc.
I am wondering if anyone else has looked at their SDRplay Receiver and went 'Hmmm',
envisioning the little-gray-box being mounted in a larger (possibly cast aluminum) box,
with proper submineature coax connecting the SDRplay Receiver to a tuned preselector,
perhaps a small RF switch and, somewhere in the coax 'plumbing', a diode-protector ?
This idea could be taken further by someone running client software in LINUX (or similar)
such that a stand-alone receiver might be viable.
Are people working on these ideas ?
- Paul, WB5AGF
( What's got me wondering about this .... )
- I have an SDRplay Receiver and use it with SDRuno Software - they are very impressive.
- But ... It seems to me that the receiver module could be used as the core of a more
. comprehensive receiver .... and I am wondering if anyone has done this yet ?
(background)
A long time ago my ham receiver was a Drake R-4B. Other than being somewhat
less mechanically rugged the Drake design seemed to take much of its direction from
that of the Collins 75S Receiver .... especially the permeability-tuned RF Preselector.
(Back to the present)
- Several users have commented on difficulties with images, overloading from
. nearby AM broadcast station, etc.
I am wondering if anyone else has looked at their SDRplay Receiver and went 'Hmmm',
envisioning the little-gray-box being mounted in a larger (possibly cast aluminum) box,
with proper submineature coax connecting the SDRplay Receiver to a tuned preselector,
perhaps a small RF switch and, somewhere in the coax 'plumbing', a diode-protector ?
This idea could be taken further by someone running client software in LINUX (or similar)
such that a stand-alone receiver might be viable.
Are people working on these ideas ?
- Paul, WB5AGF