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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Actually, the software on your pc turns off the decoder in the dongle and takes I and Q directly, then decodes it on the PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Probably won’t work for TV reception here (besides, the bandwidth you get that way is ‘only’ about 2MHz wide), but NBFM, WBFM, AM, PSK, FSK, blah blah blah can all be decoded if they run in under 2MHz bandwidth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Rusty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Derek Trotter<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: gnuradio, sdr, DAB USB dongles, and so forth?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Sounds interesting, but if it won't work with U.S. digital tv, how would you test it? Wouldn't it only be useful overseas?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 01/23/2013 08:13 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>So, has anyone here been playing with SDR?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Specifically I am thinking of using one of those USB TV receivers (from overseas - they work with DAB or DVB+T which isn’t our standard over here in the states) and either gnuradio or something else.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There was an article in QST (a ham radio magazine) ‘recently’ about it, so I rushed out and bought one of the USB thingys and now I’m trying to get all the pieces in the right place. I’ve tried SDR#, gnuradio-companion, and probably a few other things. The controls for SDR# don’t seem to work for me, and also I don’t seem to be able to get the receiver and the software tied together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is anyone else playing with this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in'>Rusty<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>