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Backers of the LimeNET Micro are set to receive a boost in computing power and storage thanks to a last-minute switch in Raspberry Pi Compute Module model, while shipping has now been pushed to the end of March. “As you all know, there were quite a few changes to the…

The amateur transponder on board the Es’hail-2 satellite, launched back in November, has been activated and qualified as ready for amateur use – and use it amateurs most certainly are. Launched in November 2018 by Qatari communications company Es’hailSat, the Es’hail 2 satellite is located at 25.5 degrees East and…

The MarconISSta mission, which saw a LimeSDR and Raspberry Pi installed on the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully completed its first phase and has been safely deinstalled and stowed. “MarconISSta was deinstalled on Saturday, February 9th 2019, by NASA astronaut Anne McClain,” writes project lead Martin Buscher in what…

A video demonstrating the integration of a LimeSDR Mini with the modular, Raspberry Pi-based PiTop laptop has been released – and all it took was a few laser-cut parts. “The PiTop is a rather cool modular laptop that you build yourself and which is based around the Raspberry Pi platform.

The LimeNET Micro campaign has posted a demonstration of an alpha-status project dubbed LimeSCAN, taking advantage of the ability to run software defined radio and general purpose processing tasks on a single standalone unit to scan for radio spectrum usage data and share it via a private Ethereum blockchain. “The…

The 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35c3) played host to antenna engineer Friederike Maier, whose talk on software defined radio basics and modulation theory serves as a great introduction to the concepts for beginners. “Encoding or decoding random radio-waveforms doesn’t need incredible expensive hardware any more, which offers new possibilities for…

The board design files for the LimeNET Micro v2.0, which includes expanded bandwidth for the radio portion as well as making more features of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 available, have now been published to the Myriad-RF GitHub repository. First announced back in October, the LimeNET Micro v2.0…

Popular software package SDR-Console is set to get transmit support on the LimeSDR range, from version 3.0.4 onwards – once beta testing is complete. The new feature of SDR-Console v3.0.4 was teased by Jason Fairfax on Twitter late last month. “Calling CQ SSB on 144.300 MHz from IO81rk,” he…

The LimeNET Micro has received a few upgrades since its crowdfunding campaign, now in its last two weeks, launched, including considerably improved RF bandwidth, active Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), and both DSI and HDMI display connectivity. Designed to meld the LimeSDR with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 to create a fully-standalone…

The LimeNET Micro crowdfunding campaign continues, and has brought with it a welcome change to the design which will greatly increase the radio’s available bandwidth and sample rate while also adding support for camera and display accessories. Announced via a crowdfunding campaign late last month, the LimeNET Micro is the…

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…

Lime Microsystems has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the LimeNET Micro, an all-in-one device which combines the LMS7002M field-programmable radio frequency (FPRF) chip with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, bringing the LimeNET family to its lowest price point yet. Designed with narrowband applications in mind, the LimeNET Micro operates…