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H**R
Good Radio Guide.
Good guide to using the RTL radio chips. Has a lot of helpful information.
M**S
A bit outdated but still good.
It has A LOT of information and tutorials. It was written 10 years ago if Im not mistaken. But still useful. It has tutorials for both Linux and Windows, and I think for even more operating systems but still haven't read it completely yet.
C**7
Informative and Chock-full of How-Tos, with step by step directions
Although I've not yet implemented any of the information in the book, it seems to be clear enough and full of information, including links to get the software needed for each kind of usage. Why not five stars then? Because the field of SDR is growing and changing so fast that no print document can stay current. I got the downloadable version and there's supposed to be a way to contact the publisher to get the latest update, but it seemed to me there could be a way to assure that the one I bought was the latest--I'm not sure and haven't gone to the trouble to contact the update source.
M**K
Good book getting started in SDR
Very good reading about SDR radio It is a must have to use on listening on shortwave radio. Alot of tips also.
A**R
The Missing RTL-SDR Manual
I think this book should be called “The Missing RTL-SDR Manual.” It explained everything I needed to know in order to make my SDR dongle work, and this was especially important because the dongle came with absolutely no instructions. After covering the basics with detailed but simple written directions, screenshots, and a troubleshooting section (which I needed), the book goes into more advanced topics such as receiving digital communications from airplanes, tracking aircraft, displaying live images from NOAA weather satellites, using the Orbitron satellite tracker program, receiving images from the Meteor-M N2 polar orbiting Russian weather satellite, receiving and decoding weather balloon radiosondes, etc., etc. There is an antenna guide, an audio piping guide, a general frequency guide, a section for radio astronomy enthusiasts... The list goes on and on. If there were a Pulitzer Prize for easy-to-understand, useful, and complete instruction manuals covering a wide range of topics for beginners, I think this remarkable book would win it. The author, Carl Laufer, is to be commended for his truly excellent work!—Joe Benson
P**S
'Too Much Sugar For A Dime' or... this is all you'll need to enter into SDR
This book is a compilation of current data in the up and coming world of Software Defined Radio. If there is any doubt in you mind as to the future of SDR, this book quickly displays the possibilities of the science and gets your attention.I've noticed that even discrete radios are coming out now with internal SDR functions, allowing for more 'bang for the buck' so to speak, in the purchase of feature rich devices.I've been involved in electronics and radio since the days of vacuum tubes. This relatively new science has me fascinated and spell-bound to say the least. Even scanner radios are incorporating software defined functions that make tedious frequency inputting a matter of just entering a zip code! Just imagine that feature.Actually, SDR is like adding another dimension to physical radios. Once the physical world is translated into the digital world, the sky is the limit. If you doubt this at all, buy this book and skim through its various paragraph headers; or the detailed table of contents that in itself is the result of software sorting and publishing.I have a Kindle, but haven't as yet figured out how to 'move' the book onto it. The author mentions that this is an option, but I'm failing to accomplish that as of this writing.
K**R
So-so guide. Poor print quality
Print quality is poor. The font size used on the pages is so small you can barely read it without a magnifying glass. The print is also very light on many pages. I’ve only read the first two chapters, some of the material seems outdated. Do not recommend this book. Most of the information is available online for free.
C**B
Lots of information about a wide range of subjects.
This is a great place to start learning about sdr. It has tons of information and projects, but nothing too in depth. I find myself skipping around a lot, based on what seems interesting. You might out grow this pretty quick once you start specializing, but I think it will always have a place on my shelf because its a great starting place for most projects the sdr can handle.
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