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Software Defined Radio (SDR) Kits - have fun homebrewing your QRP radio ! GenesisRadio.com.au is based in Sydney, Australia. We are a small radio kit manufacturer supplying hardware and software solutions to amateur radio kit builders world wide. Currently we offer monoband, duoband and multiband SDR kits for 160m to 6m band.
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A Software Defined Radio (SDR) system is a radio communication system
where components that have typically been implemented in hardware
(e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators,
detectors. etc.) are instead implemented using software on a
personal computer or other embedded computing devices.
While the concept of SDR is not new, the rapidly evolving
capabilities of digital electronics are making practical many
processes that were once only theoretically possible.
A basic SDR may consist of a computer (PC) equipped with
a sound card, or other analog-to-digital converter,
preceded by some form of RF front end.
Significant amounts of signal processing are
handed over to the general purpose processor,
rather than done using special-purpose hardware.
Such a design produces a radio that can receive and
transmit a different form of radio protocol
(sometimes referred to as a waveform) just by
running different software.
In the long term, software-defined radio is expected by
its proponents to become the dominant technology in radio
communications.
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A typical amateur software-defined radio of home
made design uses a direct conversion receiver and
low power transmitter. Unlike direct conversion
receivers of the more distant past, the mixer technology
are now based on the quadrature sampling detector and
the quadrature sampling exciter. The receiver
performance is directly related to the dynamic
range of the analog to digital converters (ADCs).
First generation SDRs used a standard PC sound card
to provide ADC functionality. The newer software defined
radios use embedded ultra-high performance ADCs that provide
higher dynamic range and are more immune to noise and RF
interference.
A fast PC performs the digital signal processing (DSP)
operations using software which is usually amateur-written,
specific for the radio hardware. The SDR software performs
all of the demodulation, filtering - both radio frequency
and audio frequency- signal enhancement. Uses include every
common amateur modulation: Morse code, single sideband modulation,
and a variety of digital modes.
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