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OTA: An LMS8001 Demo, Signal Generation, Satellite Backhaul Security Woes, and More

Lime Micro’s Andrew Back has demonstrated how the LMS8001 Companion Board, a programmable frequency-shifting add-on for software-defined radio boards, can expand the capabilities of the LimeSDR Mini and other SDR families to 10GHz and beyond, without the need for any special software or hardware modification. “In this simple demo, we…

OTA: LMS8001 Companion Board Documentation, SDRing Like it’s 1977 and 1994, Selfies from Space, and More

Documentation for the Lime Microsystems LMS8001 Companion Board has now been made publicly available, including full details on what’s changed since its limited production run in 2017. “We are pleased to announce that documentation for LMS8001 Companion has now been published,” Lime Micro’s Andrew Back wrote in the latest campaign…

OTA: LMS8001 Companion Board and its 3cm/10GHz Band Performance, a Literal “Watch Tower”, and More

The LMS8001 Companion Board’s crowdfunding campaign is now live, and the response has been fantastic – including with questions from backers eager to use the device on the 3cm/10GHz amateur radio band for Earth-Moon-Earth communication, satellite tracking, radio astronomy, and more. “Years after the initial release of engineering samples of…

OTA: A New LMS8001 Companion Board, A LimeSDR XTRX M.2 Adapter, Biometrics via Wi-Fi, and More

Lime Microsystems has opened pre-launch registrations for a crowdfunding campaign to deliver a new LMS8001 Companion Board – a four-channel frequency shifter which can boost the frequency range of a software-defined radio up to 10GHz. “Lime’s LMS8001 Companion Board can extend the frequency range of any of the boards in…

OTA: Seeing Through Walls with a LimeSDR Mini 2.0, Better LibreCellular Hardware, Satellite AI, and More

Researchers Ben Pearman and Anand Kumar have put a LimeSDR Mini 2.0 to use in a very unexpected way: seeing through walls, with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We humans inhabit a world of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. We cannot directly perceive the electromagnetic fields…

OTA: A Unified LimeSDR Gateware, Bouncing Signals off Venus, SignalAtlas, and More

The LimeSDR family is set to get a new, more flexible gateware for its on-board field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips – in a complete rewrite which will unify all the various models together. The LimeSDR GW Project, launched this month for the LimeSDR Mini v1 and v2 and the LimeSDR…

OTA: LimeSDR USB Type-A Returns, DMR Transmission, Open Source VoWiFi Client, and More

Lime Microsystems has announced the relaunch of the LimeSDR USB Type-A, the full-size two-full-duplex-channel alternative to the popular LimeSDR Mini and LimeSDR Mini 2.0 – now in stock on Crowd Supply. “The LimeSDR is based on Lime Microsystem’s latest generation of field programmable RF transceiver technology, combined with FPGA and…

OTA: Swiftly Dominating the Airwaves, a Wi-Fi Visualiser, Wearable Meshtastic, and More

Software developer Stephen D. has turned a LimeSDR USB into a device for flooding the airwaves with Taylor Swift songs, covering the whole FM band at once: the Taylorator. “For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been working on constructing the Taylorator,” Stephen writes of the project. “The Taylorator…

OTA: Lime Suite NG Release, LibreCellular Progress, Satellite Bouncing, SSTV, and More

LimeSDR users can now enjoy the first officially-tagged release of Lime Suite NG, the next-generation software stack – delivering a range of improvements over the legacy Lime Suite bundle. “Lime Suite NG was first announced back in May of last year and amongst other things provides greatly improved support for…

OTA: LimeNET Micro 2.0 Gets a Raspberry Pi CM5 Upgrade, Microcontrollers as SDRs, Ancient Satellites, and More

Lime Microsystems has announced a new revision of the LimeNET Micro 2.0 which adds compatibility with the newly-launched Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 – delivering at least twice the performance and unlocking support for improved cellular capabilities. “We are delighted to announce that LimeNET Micro 2.0, the eminently compact 5G/4G…

OTA: LimeFEA for the LimeSDR XTRX, Kirigami Antennas, Cheap Coax Hacks, and More

Lime Microsystems has announced a new entry in the LimeSDR XTRX family, a front-end adapter which combines a 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio-frequency front end (RFE) with a full-size PCI Express carrier: the LimeFEA mPCIe. The LimeFEA mPCIe is designed to accept the LimeSDR XTRX mini-PCI Express software-defined radio module…

OTA: Modern “Magic Eye” Tuning Tubes, Multi-Radio SDR On-The-Move, Faster SatDump, and More

Don Pivo is single-handedly bringing back the vintage “Magic Eye” indicator tube, designing modern digital replacements in 3D-printed housing – with his latest being an LCD-powered alternative to the 6U5. “Tuning indicator tubes have hardly been manufactured the last 50 years, and some types are scarce, e.g. the 6U5,” Don…