A Shortwave Receiver for the “Homemade” Tablet

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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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