Explore Software Defined Radio

Introduction

For several years in my travels online, I kept hearing and reading about SDR, or software-defined radio. It seemed interesting, but (at least at first) I didn’t have the time or motivation or learn more about it.

I gradually picked up a news item here or a Reddit post there, but I still didn’t know the details of SDR. All I knew for sure was that the topic was complicated and it allowed you to use your computer to pick up radio signals. Instead, I concentrated on more easily learned things like partial differential equations and making the perfect soufflé.

Then, not too long ago, I got an email from my editor. “Hey Wolf,” he wrote. “How would you like to do a book on SDR? Ever heard of it?” It was time to jump into the pool again, ...