Perseus SDR Receiver

Several SDR receivers are available as commercial products. Among them is the Perseus, which can tune and display an 800 kHz segment in the range of 10 kHz to 30 MHz.

FlexRadio Transceiver

A well-known example of an SDR transceiver is the FlexRadio FLEX-5000. This transceiver covers the HF and 6-meter ham bands with 100 W output, and general coverage receive. Reviews were published in the February 2008 issue of CQ Magazine and in the July 2008 issue of QST. A review on eHam.net is available here.

Introduction

Software Defined Radio has a wide range of implementation in HF amateur radio today. Available applications range from commercially-produced full-powered transceivers and receivers costing thousands of dollars to simple QRP transceivers and receivers in kit form that are priced in the tens of dollars. The selected links on this blog provide SDR background information and views of current activity.