Kenneth Barlee, assisted by Dale Atkinson, gave a most interesting talk with demonstrations of SDR – Software Defined Radio – at the meeting of the LRS on 27th April 2016. Kenny is a 2nd-year Ph.D student at Strathclyde University and is already a co-author of a text-book on SDR.
1. Introduce SDR in general.
2. Talk about the RTL-SDR – go into details about its discovery + architecture, why it is different from previous SDRs, and MATLAB and Simulink support.
3. Explain about the signals the RTL-SDR can receive (25MHz to 1.75GHz) – give demos of receiving cell tower signals etc.
4. Talk about the purpose of the book (www.desktopSDR.com).
5. Give a couple of demos from the book – eg transmitting images and audio using a cheapy FM transmitter to a Simulink based RTL-SDR receiver model.
Kenny has kindly given permission for his lecture slides to be shown here:
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Many thanks to Kenny and Dale for their great presentation
and good luck to them in their Ph.D course at Strathclyde University.
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