Revisiting the cable modem spectrum analyzer
I actually hit the front page of hackaday writing about this one, and I’m still being honest that this was NOT my discovery, I just made a few observations about…
Yet another new OS for radio things
Yeah, I’m drinking the Mac kool aid now. While I still have Linux doing some things and windows PCs around, I bought a Mac for school and because I like…
Cable Modem Spectrum Analyzer
Another solution in search of problems, right? I work every day with spectrum analyzers and receivers – so it’s natural that they would have a place on my workbench. When…
Icom 706 mkIIg IF tap
just my experience using the PAT IF buffer from SDR-KITS.COM. power pick off point… 7.8VDC on recieve First IF tap point and coax connection to the PAT board. Note the…
SDR# as a visual panadaptor
It was a fun contest – this year’s sweepstakes threatened to not be a sweep for me – then again, i didn’t put a serious effort into it. I used…
Return Loss, Part 2, or SDR VNA
After my last post on return loss, I ended up scouring eBay for a return loss bridge – or a set of directional couplers – to measure antennas and other…
RSSI correlation
One interesting aspect of the BCD-996 and similar radios is the digital command and status protocol. In digging into the software, I learned that there is a RSSI (Relative Signal…