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You can also "hack" Plutos pretty easily to essentially be a USRP. The 9363 is just a derated 9361 which can go down to 70mhz, so they'll usually work if you s
by AnarchismIsCool 2y ago
You can also "hack" Plutos pretty easily to essentially be a USRP. The 9363 is just a derated 9361 which can go down to 70mhz, so they'll usually work if you swap the FPGA software load.
- mschuster91 2y agoYeah but as said going down to 70 MHz alone won't give you that many popular ham bands (at least not the ones allowed in Germany). An SDR that can transmit down to the 160m band (1800 kHz) however... that would be practically the end of ICOM, Yaesu, Kenwood and other high-price brands.
- AnarchismIsCool 2y agoHonestly, there are a bunch out there at similar price points to the big names, but I think the critical mass of the ham community is too geriatric to understand what IQ means and just wants to ragchew on 20m. Based on what I've seen the younger crowd is all up in the V/UHF space playing with digital radios but that's where SDR has seen the least penetration because you need something spicier than a repurposed AF ADC for the available bandwidths. I've literally seen people on reddit pleading for the ability to dump the entire 2m band at once from an HT and practically, that's pretty trivial, there's just no hardware. I'm starting to wonder if the big radio manufacturers are trying to market segment the AD9xxx/ADRV9xxx chips away from the consumers and towards to military customers. They're more expensive but you can get 9363s and 7010s for $20 ea, so total list price around maybe $500.