build your own w/ software defined radio

[Ted Gould]

You can't.  It would only really be useful for FM in the states.  The
antenna part would be fine, but the demodulator is for the DVB-T
standard where we use VSB here.  I'd be surprised if they didn't have
another model that did VSB though.

Ted

On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 15:01 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> they say it was for tv in the uk. How could we use it for tv here?
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> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Derek Trotter
> <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         Can the software tune the digital audio now broadcast by some
>         FM stations?  Also are there any other devices with this chip
>         in them?  Why buy one when you already have a device that will
>         work?  This sounds like fun.  I'll have to see about getting
>         one of these.  I can see one use for this.  If you're
>         travelling away from home, leave one of these set up at home.
>         Then when you're out of town, you can connect to it and listen
>         to radio from your hometown and keep up on local news.
>         
>         
>         On 08/18/2013 01:28 PM, der.hans wrote:
>         
>         > 
>         > moin moin, 
>         > 
>         > build your own radio. I still listen to FM stations. This
>         > looks like a 
>         > cool way to make that easier and more flexible. 
>         > 
>         > http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/a-40-softwaredefined-radio 
>         > 
>         > Hardware on ebay for $20. 
>         > 
>         > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Newsky-TV28T-v2-USB-DVB-T-RTL-SDR-Receiver-RTL2832U-R820T-Tuner-MCX-Input-/160896092118#vi-content 
>         > 
>         > And there's a command line interface :). 
>         > 
>         > ciao, 
>         > 
>         > der.hans 
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>         
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