[Fourlanders] SDR info

[Bob Lear]

I got this from the Roadrunners reflector.  Thought there might be some 
interest here in these SDR developments.  It will obviously generate more.

Bob

SDR

Technical Web Site of the Week - Software-defined radio is rapidly 
approaching a tipping point where it becomes so affordable it will start 
crowding out traditional radio architectures. For example, this Slashdot 
story notes that at the ToorCon hacker conference in San Diego, Michael 
Ossmann of Great Scott Gadgets revealed a beta version of the HackRF 
Jawbreaker, It can both read and transmit signals from 100 MHz to 6 GHz. 
At Ossmann's target price of $300, the versatile, open-source devices 
would cost less than half as much as currently existing software-defined 
radios with the same capabilities. The Defense Advanced Research 
Projects Agency (DARPA) pitched in $200,000 last February as part of its 
Cyber Fast Track program.

http://slashdot.org/story/12/10/22/0518231

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/10/19/darpa-funded-radio-hackrf-aims-to-be-a-300-wireless-swiss-army-knife-for-hackers/