[Bradford] Introductions

[Alice Kaerast]

On 7 February 2013 11:12, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:
> On 4 February 2013 20:34, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:
>
> <<SNIP>>
>
> Ah, very cool — I'm a big fan of SDR (I say "fan" because I cannot,
> sadly, claim to understand the maths which makes it work!)
>
> I take it you've seen BladeRF?
>
>   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defined-radio

There's a couple of similar projects in the "will be ready soon" phase
which look quite exciting.  OpenBTS is great fun, and the talks from
people who have hacked on it are fascinating - the bugs they've found
in GSM implementations are quite something.

My SDR is a first-gen Funcube Dongle.  It's deaf as a post without a
front-end filter, but it was a really cheap way of getting started
with the software.  I'm a little disappointed in the Linux offerings
for SDR so far, they are mostly Gnuradio-based amateur python scripts
which are far from some of the polished Windows-based software.  It
doesn't help that Python is a language I don't personally get along
with.

Alice Kaerast