Random tidbits Bdale thinks are worth documenting.

Bdale Garbee
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SSRP Assembled
I sat up tonight putting together a semi-kit of David Carr's Simple Software Radio Peripheral, which is more or less an "RF to USB 2.0" interface. I'm going to use this as a platform for learning more about GNU Radio.

I'm looking forward to getting a USRP board soon, which I intend to use in the EME station I'm building. In the meantime, the SSRP board looked like an easy way to get started, particularly since it uses essentially the same parts of GNU Radio as the USRP...

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It Fits
I found a suitable right-angle 50-pin header for the SCSI card while wandering around in the Fry's in Palo Alto earlier this week. This evening, I managed to extract the straight header without damaging the board, and installed the new connector. The board fits in the backplane just fine now... and with a power cable swiped from a dead ATX supply and a suitable SCSI cable and drive from the pile, the card still seems to work.

I need to find or make up another cable for the silly MMJ serial connectors, and then I'll be able to try loading ancient Unix...

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