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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Just a follow up to my post, I just
found this in the October 24th edition of the ARRL Contest Update:<br>
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<b>Technical Web Site
of the Week</b> - 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 <a
href="http://slashdot.org/story/12/10/22/0518231"
target="_blank">Slashdot</a> story notes that at the
ToorCon hacker conference in San Diego, Michael Ossmann of Great
Scott
Gadgets <a
href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/10/19/darpa-funded-radio-hackrf-aims-to-be-a-300-wireless-swiss-army-knife-for-hackers/"
target="_blank">revealed a beta version of the HackRF Jawbreaker</a>,
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.<br>
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So it looks as if it may be available soon.<br>
<br>
Paul KA5FPT<br>
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On 10/25/2012 12:02 AM, KA5FPT Paul wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5088C7FB.10704@tx.rr.com" type="cite">Saw this
on the Hack-a-Day feed and wanted to pass it on.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html">http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/10/hackrf-jawbreaker.html">http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/10/hackrf-jawbreaker.html</a>
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I have to say it is very interesting. It reminds me a little of
what Chris Testa, KD2BMH, presented at DCC this year.
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73,
<br>
Paul
<br>
KA5FPT
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