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QRadioLink developer Adrian Musceac has shown off how the LimeSDR Mini can be connected to a smartphone for on-the-go software-defined radio reception and transmission, in the latest demonstration update to the Crowd Supply campaign. Using the GNU Radio-based QRadioLink running on an Android smartphone, a USB battery pack,…

BT and Lime Microsystems have launched a competition for all LimeSDR, LimeSDR Mini, and LimeNET users: build a radio access project and pick yourselves up a LimeSDR with official aluminium case plus the potential to publish your creation in the LimeNET app store. Designed to encourage the development of…

Welcome to the ninth episode in the LimeSDR Made Simple series. Since the first we’ve been gradually adding more tools to the SDR toolbox and if you have followed the series along, by now the operation of the LimeSDR should be well and truly demystified. Last time we looked…

Campaign backers eagerly awaiting their LimeSDR Mini boards have something to whet their appetite in the form of a demonstration using SDRangel, the open-source signal analyser and general-purpose transceiver application. In a video posted to the Crowd Supply campaign page and visible to all, Andrew Back demonstrates how Edouard…

The third instalment of the Wireless Masterclass series has now been published to YouTube and this takes a look at the real radio link, with Dr Danny Webster covering topics including the noise floor and line-of-sight link budgets, bad neighbours, and receiver and propagation effects on received signals. This is…

Karl Woodward’s LimeSDR Made Simple series headed into its eight instalment this week with a look at how to program the LimeSDR from a Linux host. “Very early on in episode one we promised to work from SDR novice to API programming examples in small, bite sized chunks,” Karl…

Welcome to the eighth instalment of the LimeSDR Made Simple series. Very early on in episode 1, we promised to work from SDR novice to API programming examples in small, bite sized chunks. Having done many of those steps it’s now time to take the final one and start programming.

The LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign has come to its close with almost three times its target raised, meaning production is now on-track for the first units to ship to backers by the end of the year. A post-campaign update from Andrew and the LimeSDR Mini team provides thanks…

The second video in the Wireless Masterclass series has been published to YouTube and in this Dr Danny Webster introduces the LimeSDR and takes a look at the LMS7002 FPRF architecture, covering the analogue and digital halves of the chip for both transmit and receive chains. The highly integrated…

The LimeSDR family now has a new accessory in the LMS8001 Companion Board, an add-on designed to extend the frequency coverage up to 10GHz. To launch alongside the LimeSDR Mini later this year, the LMS8001 Companion Board features a four-channel frequency shifter compatible with any version of the LimeSDR…

Receiving and transmitting ASK/OOK signals in GNU Radio Welcome to the seventh instalment of LimeSDR Made Simple. In this post we pick up where we left off in the previous, trying to mimic the simplest of radio devices. In the last instalment we got to a point where we could…

If you’re looking for an in-depth deep dive into digital radio and the inner workings of the LMS7002M and LimeSDR you’ll want to look out for Dr. Danny Webster’s Wireless Masterclass series, the first of which has been uploaded to YouTube. Based on presentations from the LimeSDR Workshop…