Simple SDR + FLDigi

Figure 1: The graphic shows the layout of SDR, as utilized by hams.  Click to enlarge.

I decided to utilize the simple SDR hardware by using Quisk as the SDR software, and FLDigi as the digital mode software. It was simply a matter of stopping the WSJTx process and starting FLDigi. The FLDigi software picked up the audio feed with no manual intervention. After launch, it presented itself in the Pulseaudio control app (pavucontrol) recording tab, as …

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A Shortwave Receiver for the “Homemade” Tablet

Figure 1: The “soft66 Lite” SDR (software defined radio) board. It’s a fun thing to build in a spare three hours, and even more fun to operate!

Recently I’d integrated a “homemade”  tablet into the station, for things like receiving weather faxes and BPSK31 transmissions.  I’d been using external receivers to do that, but mentioned that I really wanted to put a “shortwave” receiver board inside the tablet, for an all-in-one effect…

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