Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Juha, there's a lot of devices that do your job. From the classic commercial-grade devices of the USRP line, to cheaply available rx modules like the (in)famous dvb-t dongles. You can use the tuners on old PCI tv cards and a ton of other stuff. It all depends on what you need to do: What

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Brian Padalino
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Marcus Müller master.of.knowle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Juha, there's a lot of devices that do your job. From the classic commercial-grade devices of the USRP line, to cheaply available rx modules like the (in)famous dvb-t dongles. You can use the tuners on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Juha Vierinen
I'm talking about antenna tuners. This is a device that matches the impedance of an antenna to a radio. An example of a device I'm looking for is the LDG AT-100PC. Unfortunately LDG doesn't make them any more. PS. 20 MHz isn't that much bandwidth to handle in software nowadays. juha On Mon,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I believe he is looking for something more like an antenna coupler/tuner used in HF applications to tune and impedance match for maximum power transfer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_tuner As for not talking about hardware on the GNU Radio mailing list - I find that a little silly.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Marcus Müller
As for not talking about hardware on the GNU Radio mailing list - I find that a little silly. While GNU Radio is more about a framework for processing baseband signals, there's also the real need to interface to the outside world. Dynamic range, gain, and all the little hardware bits in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Jeff Scaparra
Sorry didn't finish my email for hitting send. Marcus there are some things you need to be aware of. First the bandwidth of a small magnetic loop, like your describing is really small (2-6 KHz) for the frequency range that your describing. Assuming that is ok I don't know of a commercial

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-13 Thread Jeff Scaparra
Marcus there are some things you need to be aware of. First the bandwidth of a small magnetic loop, like your describing is really small On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Marcus Müller master.of.knowle...@gmail.com wrote: As for not talking about hardware on the GNU Radio mailing list - I

[Discuss-gnuradio] Computer controllable antenna tuner

2013-05-11 Thread Juha Vierinen
Hi, Does anyone know a good antenna tuner with a serial port, usb or ethernet connection that allows you to tell the tuner what frequency to tune to? I could really use something like this. Also, does anyone know of a good commercially available magnetic loop antenna for the HF band (1-20 MHz)?