Over The Air – MyriadRF

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…

OTA: Radio World Goes Ga-Ga for SDR, a Raspberry Pi Pico Build, Homebrew Antennas, and More

Software-defined radios represent “the next level of shortwave radio listening,” says convert James Careless – writing a piece espousing the technology’s benefits for Future Publishing’s Radio World magazine. “Where have these things been all my life,” James rhetoricises after being introduced to the world of software-defined radio systems. “There is…

OTA: LibreCellular Gets a Versatile RFE, Lime Suite NG Ported to Android, DME with a LimeSDR, and More

The LibreCellular project, which aims to provide an end-to-end open-source technology stack for cellular networks, has celebrated another major milestone with the development of a new, highly-versatile radio-frequency front-end (RFE) offering 2×2 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) operation. “This is designed to be connected to an SDR and provides uplink and downlink…

OTA: Wavelet Lab Unveils the xMASS SDR, LimeNET Micro 2.0 Orders Open, a Raspberry Pi Pico SDR, and More

Boston-based Wavelet Lab has launched a high-performance software-defined radio system dubbed the xMASS SDR, using Lime Micro LMS7002M-based modules to deliver 8×8 multi-input/multiple-output (MIMO) connectivity – or up to 16×16, by linking two boards. “xMASS SDR is a modular, high-performance MIMO transceiver optimised for industrial, academic, and advanced software-defined radio…

OTA: LimeNET Micro 2.0 Coming Soon, Lime Suite NG Launches, Bluetooth Reaches Orbit, a DIY Radar, and More

Orders for the new LimeNET Micro 2.0 all-in-one software-defined radio platform, powered by the LimeSDR XTRX and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, are to open soon – in the form of a “Developer Edition” kit. “LimeNET Micro 2.0 DE (Developer Edition) is a modular radio platform that leverages the Raspberry…

OTA: A LimeSDR DMR Tier III Trunked Base Station, EM Eye Eavesdropping, Software-Defined GPS, and More

QRadioLink developer Adrian Musceac has written up a project to build a working though self-admittedly “limited functionality” software-defined Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Tier III trunked radio base station transceiver powered by a LimeNET Micro or LimeSDR Mini. “It seems desirable to study the properties of a trunked radio system and…

OTA: GRCon24 Call for Participation Opens, “Wireless Open Source Supremacy” with Osmocom, Scrap Antennas, and More

A call for participation in GRCon24, this year’s GNU Radio Conference, has opened – ahead of the event itself taking place this September – and interested parties have until the 17th of June to get their abstracts in. “Packed with valuable content, the GRCon technical program is one of the…

OTA: LimeNET Micro 2.0, Decoding Moon Messages, Gqrx for Windows, and More

Lime Microsystems has published the first details of LimeNET Micro 2.0, a radio front-end carrier board for LimeSDR XTRX and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4), which is used as the basis of the 5G network-in-a-box developed in partnership with Vodafone. The new LimeNET Micro 2.0 design brings increased performance,…

OTA: Ebrahim Bushehri Talks LimeSDR XTRX and LMS8001, LibreCellular Progress, Clever Antennas, and More

Lime Microsystems chief executive officer Ebrahim Bushehri rounded out 2023 with an appearance on the December Crowd Supply Teardown Sessions, talking through the history of the company and the LimeSDR – as well as the upcoming LimeSDR XTRX and a new chip dubbed the LMS8001. “Quite a few people have…

OTA: LimeSDR on Crowd Supply Teardown, LimeSDR XTRX Update, Laser Cats in Space, and More

Lime Microsystems chief executive officer Ebrahim Bushehri is to be featured in the next Crowd Supply Teardown Session, diving deep into the LimeSDR family of open-source software-defined radio devices – taking place on the 29th of December at 1700 UTC. The 40th in an ongoing series of interviews and hands-on…

OTA: New Lime Suite Release, IET Award, TETRA Crypto Goes Public, a True Ham Antenna, and More

A new version of the Lime Suite software bundle for the LimeSDR family of software-defined radio (SDR) devices has been released, bringing with it support for the new LimeSDR Mini 2. Lime Suite 23.11.0, available now from GitHub and in the Ubuntu Personal Package Archive (PPA) as a pre-built package…