Over The Air – Page 2

OTA: LimeSDR Mini 2.0 Production Update, Discovery Dish, a Wok Antenna, and More

There’s an update for LimeSDR Mini 2.0 orders placed before the 19th of October and forming part of the current production run: hardware will be reaching customers by early December. “All the PCBs and components for the next manufacturing run have been delivered to the assembly house. However, there was…

OTA: The Lime SDR Accelerator, A Multi-Carrier Base Station, the Portable SDRDock, and More

Lime Microsystems has announced an accelerator programme which will see SDR projects receive discounts on components and crowdfunding fees and additional support and promotion — and the programme’s first participant has been confirmed. “We’re proud to announce the launch of our new Lime SDR Accelerator initiative and its first participant:…

OTA: uSDR and XTRX Campaigns Draw to a Close, a Dipole Deep-Drive, Post-Apocalyptic QRP, and More

Wavelet Lab’s uSDR crowdfunding campaign, for a Lime Micro LMS6002D-powered compact single-sided M.2 software-defined radio board backed by a browser-based software platform, has successfully reached its funding goal — with hardware due to ship in February next year. “uSDR is an embedded software-defined radio (SDR) board that is optimized for…

OTA: The LimeSDR XTRX Launch, File Transfer via GNU Radio, Low-Cost LNB Conversion, and More

The crowdfunding campaign for the open-hardware LimeSDR XTRX, an updated and fully-supported successor to the Fairwaves XTRX, is now open, with hardware expected to ship to backers at the end of November. Designed as a drop-in replacement for the discontinued Fairwaves XTRX, the LimeSDR XTRX puts a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M…

OTA: Wavelet Labs Starts uSDR Crowdfunding, A Sign in Space Progress, URTI Updates, and More

Wavelet Lab has officially opened crowdfunding for its compact uSDR M.2-format software defined radio board and browser-based control platform, with a little under a month left to reach its funding goal for production. Based on the Lime Micro LMS6002D field-programmable radio frequency chip and an AMD Xilinx Artix-7 field-programmable gate…

OTA: The WebUSB-Enabled uSDR, IQEngine, Alien Signals from Mars, and More

Wavelet Lab is looking to make software-defined radio more accessible, using a compact M.2 SDR module dubbed the uSDR alongside a WebUSB-connected browser-based software bundle with some impressive collaboration features. “uSDR is an embedded software-defined radio board that targets ease of use and collaboration,” Boston-based Wavelet Lab says of its…

OTA: Augmented Reality Satellite Tracking, A Sun Noise Monitor, Black-Box Wi-Fi Optimisation, and More

Gabe Emerson, of YouTube channel “saveitforparts,” has built a low-cost augmented reality system which lets you peer into the skies and see satellites as they pass – acting as a microwave-frequency camera. “I’ve dabbled in radiotelescopes before, mostly as a way to use old TV satellite dishes,” Gabe explains. “However,…

OTA: Portsdown Gets LimeSDR Mini 2.0 Support, RFNM Preps a Lime Daughterboard, A Sculpture Becomes an Antenna, and More

The British Amateur Television Club (BATC)’s Portsdown digital TV transmission platform has received an update, bringing with it drop-in support for the using the new LimeSDR Mini 2.0. “The previous facilities that worked with the LimeSDR Mini V1 and the LimeSDR USB now also work with the LimeSDR Mini V2,”…

OTA: Vodafone Shows Off a Palm-Size 5G Base Station, OpenBTS-UMTS Gets Rebooted, Osmocom CNI Updates, and More

Vodafone has shown off a palm-size 5G base station, powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer with Lime Microsystems software-defined radio technology inside – in an effort to make private cellular networking and edge computing more accessible. “We looked at what Raspberry Pi did for computing, in terms of…

OTA: LimeSDR Mini 2.0 Ships, CyberEther on iOS, SDRangel on Android, a DECT “Playground,” and More

Backers of the LimeSDR Mini 2.0 have started to receive their hardware, following delivery of the first production batch – with enough to fulfil all existing orders and more. “The first batch of LimeSDR Mini 2.0 boards have been manufactured, tested, and delivered to our UK headquarters,” Lime Micro’s Andrew…

OTA: Satellite Imagery, GRCon22 Talks, Osmocom Funding, SIM Simulation, and More

LimeSDR users have been showing off their satellite imagery successes on social media, capturing data from NASA’s Terra, Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, and more and decoding it to great effect. “Here it is,” writes Peter Kooistra on Twitter, while sharing images including the one adorning this newsletter. “My first Terra with…

OTA: A Double LibreCellular Milestone Month, LimeSDR Mini 2.0 Updates, Vintage Cellular, and More

It’s been a bumper month for the LibreCellular project with not one but two major milestones to celebrate: The first end-to-end test of the continuous integration (CI) system and the first basic service network offering connectivity to real-world 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices. “We are pleased to report that…