Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP need antenna?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Ettus
Suvda, With just the BasicRX you can receive some strong stations, but it was never intended to be used by itself. You can use it with a scanner if you wish, or can hack something from MiniCircuits parts. Your best bet, however, is the TVRX board, which covers 50 to 870 MHz, and which will al

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP need antenna?

2005-04-20 Thread kt1023
Hi, Suvda Myagmar wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: As far as I know nobody has said anything about not needing an antenna. You need something. Try a 3 foot long piece of wire. For the broadcast AM band, longer is better. A cheap "FM dipole" works great for the FM broadcast band. By "FM dipole" I mea

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP need antenna?

2005-04-20 Thread Suvda Myagmar
Eric Blossom wrote: As far as I know nobody has said anything about not needing an antenna. You need something. Try a 3 foot long piece of wire. For the broadcast AM band, longer is better. A cheap "FM dipole" works great for the FM broadcast band. By "FM dipole" I mean those really cheap T-s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP need antenna?

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:41:08PM -0500, Suvda Myagmar wrote: > From FAQ on Ettus website I understood that one doesn't need rf > front-end to run basic experiments on USRP hardware. Is that correct > assumption? I have usrp main board and RX, TX daughterboards. I > thought this hw can tune int

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP need antenna?

2005-04-15 Thread Suvda Myagmar
From FAQ on Ettus website I understood that one doesn't need rf front-end to run basic experiments on USRP hardware. Is that correct assumption? I have usrp main board and RX, TX daughterboards. I thought this hw can tune into frequency spectrum up to 50 MHz, which means I can listen AM radio