{"id":22,"date":"2014-10-17T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-10-18T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T19:54:53","slug":"projects-rtl2832-software-defined-radio-and-fm-stereo-transmitter-from-adafruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Projects: RTL2832 Software Defined Radio and FM Stereo Transmitter from Adafruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a few items from Adafruit including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/1497\" target=\"_blank\">RTL2832 Software Defined Radio USB Stick<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/1958\" target=\"_blank\">Stereo FM Transmitter with RDS breakout board<\/a>.\u00a0 Not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with the FM Transmitter but I think it will be something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeyancey.com\/FM-Stereo-Broadcaster.php#\" target=\"_blank\">FM Transmitter<\/a> that my friend Mike Yancey KM5Z made a few years ago.\u00a0 The Software Defined Radio stick will probably come with me on my travels so I can sniff the airwaves while bored in my hotel room.\u00a0 Lady Ada has a good <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/getting-started-with-rtl-sdr-and-sdr-sharp\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial for the SDR<\/a> and it looks like a lot of fun &#8212; will apparently pick up signals from 24 MHz to 1.8 GHz and supports narrow and wide FM, AM, sideband, and CW.\u00a0 She also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/adafruit-si4713-fm-radio-transmitter-with-rds-rdbs-support\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial for the FM transmitter<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll make some postings to the blog when I start playing with these things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(published from Hagerstown, MD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased a few items from Adafruit including an RTL2832 Software Defined Radio USB Stick and a Stereo FM Transmitter with RDS breakout board.\u00a0 Not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with the FM Transmitter but I think it will be something like the FM Transmitter that my friend Mike Yancey KM5Z made a few years ago.\u00a0 The Software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[10,11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ad8bc.com\/bc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}