Red Pitaya board on sale under $200!

[Martin]

I think the RP would go through batteries pretty fast.

Food for thought - http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CrossBand.php  I was
thinking about doing this with a balloon.  The idea would be to use
twin-lead j-poles stacked vertically on a flightline for isolation.



On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> Interesting little gizmo.  I'm concentrating on flying machines these
> days, so I don't want to get diverted.
> Looking at it though  I think that little board has potential as a
> payload.  I have a pretty good imagination, but my programming skills are
> almost non existent.
> A simple ham legal thing that might be fun would be an airborne cross band
> repeater or perhaps transponder.  Would that be hard to implement?
> Fox hunting?  Radio surveying? Dang that's a pretty cool device, wish I
> were smarter and younger...
>
>
> Terry N4TLF wrote on 11/30/2015 10:32 PM:
>
> As Martin said earlier, yes there are some people here that are using the
> Red Pitaya, especially for the basis of a nice SDR.  I just received my
> second one today.  For the money, it’s hard to beat as an SDR building
> block.  With TWO channels of 125 Ms/s ADC and TWO channels of 125 Ms/s DAC,
> plus other I/O, and a nice FPGA with embedded dual ARM9 hardware cores (NOT
> taking up any FPGA fabric), it is a pretty good device.  HF diversity
> reception is one interest, for example.
>
> I’m not sure that I totally buy into the “lab instrument” usage, but for a
> quick-and-dirty device, it’s also useful.  Developed by engineers at CERN
> in their spare time, it has a decent design and backing.
>
> Check out the blog at redpitaya.com for more info.  There is also a
> Google Group for those interested in pursuing the RP as an SDR, SDR-NET.
> I’ve not mastered the “Google Groups” thing yet, but the interest there is
> growing, with people from around the world.
>
> I have no connection with Red Pitaya.  I just know a good SDR block when I
> see one.
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
>
>
> *From:* Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 28, 2015 2:04 PM
> *To:* tacos at amrad.org
> *Subject:* Re: Red Pitaya board on sale under $200!
>
> Are folks on this list using it?
>
>
>
> Terry Fox wrote on 11/26/2015 1:00 PM:
>
> Red Pitaya
>
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