GNU Radio Foundation Launches Interest Check for London Symposium

GNU Radio Foundation president Ben Hilburn has launched a questionnaire to gauge interest in a UK event for GNU Radio users and developers, tentatively titled the GNU Radio Symposium, which would run along with the existing European GNU Radio Days and GNU Radio Conference events. Originally developed by Eric Blossom…
GNU Radio Crowd

OTA: EMF Camp Base Stations, LimeSDR in Space, GNU Radio, and More

LimeSDR units will be a key feature of this year’s Electromagnetic Field (EMF Camp) event, taking place in the UK this weekend, powering a local GSM cellular network for attendees’ use. Part camping festival, part gigantic temporary hackspace, Electromagnetic Field is this year held in Eastnor, UK, and on…
LimeSDR BTS, for EMF Camp 2018

OTA: LoRa Testing, Homebrew Antennas, Reactor Monitoring, and More

Engineer Mark Zachmann has posted of his work using the LimeSDR Mini to test low-power long-range LoRa radios, as part of an Internet of Things (IoT) project. “I’m working on a LoRa system at 915MHz. LoRa is a frequency modulation method used on low power IOT devices. Being able to…
Acoustic Communications at Argonne National Laboratory

OTA: LimeSDR Shipping, 6G Cellular, New Osmocom, and More

Work to deliver outstanding LimeSDR, LimeSDR Mini, and associated devices continues, but there’s been a major change in the background: Crowd Supply is now in full control of inventory management and distribution, which is going to make future fulfilment considerably smoother at the cost of a moderate delay in the…
LimeSDR (cased)

OTA: LimeSDR Cases, HDSDR and GNU Radio Support, SDR Hacks, and More

Fulfilment of the LimeSDR Mini pre-orders continues, with the optional aluminium cases for the bundles having gone through assembly and testing ready for Crowd Supply to send them on. Delivered late last week and pictured in a campaign update, the LimeSDR Mini aluminium cases are designed to provide protection…
LimeSDR Minis in Cases

OTA: LimeSDR GPIO, Mini Give-away, SpaceX Sats and More

The LimeSDR General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Board, designed to make it easier to interface the LimeSDR with external hardware, is beginning its journeys to backers following a minor delay in the assembly process. Designed to expand the LimeSDR’s capabilities, the GPIO Board provides individually-configurable bi-directional level-shifted input/output pins for the GPIO…
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

OTA: Masterclass Videos, RFI, C-Band Reuse and More

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…
LimeSDR Mini on a LattePanda

OTA: LimeSDR Mini, GNU Octave, SDR on a Watch and More

Lime Microsystems has officially opened a crowdfunding campaign for the LimeSDR Mini, a reduced-size and reduced-cost version of the LimeSDR which offers one TX and one RX channel for just $99 for Early Bird backers and $139 thereafter. Taking place on Crowd Supply over the next month – the…
LimeSDR Mini (Render)

Over The Air: Ebrahim Bushehri Interview, ERASynth Update, LimeSDR 4G Repeater, Lime Hackathon Deadline, QB50 Satellites, Drone Hijacking, LTE IMSI Catcher, Chazwazza VNA, Fixing a Bent Antenna, and Focus On Alexandru Csete

EEWeb’s Paul Dillien has published an interview with Ebrahim Bushehri, chief executive of Lime Microsystems, describing the goal of the LimeSDR and related projects as no less than “to become the Arduino/Raspberry Pi for the wireless engineer.” Paul’s interview with Ebrahim concentrates primarily, and unsurprisingly, on Lime’s ongoing crowdfunding…
ISIS Cubesat

Over The Air: LimeNET, IMT-2020 Requirements, LTE-U, Universal Radio Hacker, GNU Radio Blocks Explained, SDR on FPGAs, and a Global SDR Radiotelescope

Over The Air is our fortnightly round-up bringing you the latest on topics of interest to the software defined radio community, as curated by technology journalist Gareth Halfacree. Lime Microsystems and Canonical are putting together the finishing touches to the LimeNET wireless-network-in-a-box crowdfunding campaign with a view to launching a…
LimeNET