SDRPlay Radio Installation Notes

Overview

These notes pertain to the installation and implementation of an SDR (Software-Defined Radio) on Linux and Windows-based machines.

I was able to get the SDRPlay device installed for Windows and for Linux.

Windows Installation

Early on, my attempts to install SDR software on a Linux Ubuntu 14.04 machine failed due to, apparently, missing modules on the workstation.

So, I decided that, if I could get it to run under Windows, it would prove that the device worked and would give me confidence that it could be installed under Linux.

The Windows 7 Pro installation went well and I was able to get an SDR running in that OS.

Linux Ubuntu 14.04 Installation

Linux was tricky.

The following links were useful to get this running:

1. http://cubicsdr.com/
2. http://sdrplay.com/linux.html
3. https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR/wiki/Build-Linux
4. http://www.sdrplay.com/linux.html

The order of the steps was not correct in the Build-Linux document. In short, the support modules, listed at the end of the document, must be compiled first before the other items. This is not, for a new user, an obvious requirement.

GNURadio Installation

These notes pertain to installing the GNURadio software.

In short, I have no clue as to how this GNU Radio is useful. Today...


More later...

REFERENCES:

1. https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki
2. https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/InstallingGR
3. https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/HowToUse#Graphical-signal-processing-development-The-GNU-Radio-Companion-GRC
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