Also with SDR console you can have upto 6VFOs running simultaneously within the Carved out spectrum.  In windows I have been able to use the B200 with SDR# and the SDR Radio V 2.2 software. Linux is better if you want to do much more advanced things via Gnu radio etc..

With SDR# you need to load an older FPGA image to use it, it ships with the EXTIO packaged at wiki.spench.net

this is available at http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/USRP_Interfaces

you can do that with b2xx_fx3_utils -I path to fpga.bin file in the directory where you installed the files from the website
then b2xx_fx3_utils - W path to fpga.bin file in the directory where you installed the files from the website

SDR console will work with the current FPGA bin.

both have pros and cons.

SDR# seems better suited for analyzing
SDR console seems better as a radio i.e. with the Multi VFOs and the filters/demodulators seem to be better that the SDR#

I have the B200 it has two RX inputs which is nice, means I can have a general omnidirectional for locating RF activity in the vicinity, then a directional Yagi for source point location. You can switch between the two.

Now this stuff is CPU heavy. I have a dedicated workstation for this, 3770K cpu, 8GB low latency memory and SSD's. and The cpu is averaging 40% utilization with a 32RBW watching a 26Mhz section of bandwidth.

Anyhow this kind of capability would cost megabucks, and you would be paying top dollar for gear from companies like Rhode & Schwarz. SDR is definitely the wave of the future, this is the equivalent of experimenting with radio/deforest tubes in the 1920s :)

Thanks, everyone!  I'll be placing an order shortly...

Cheers!
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: USRP-users [mailto:usrp-users-bounces@lists.ettus.com] On Behalf Of
Benito Horta
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 11:36 AM
To: usrp-users@lists.ettus.com
Subject: [USRP-users] Newbie with pre-purchase questions...

Also with SDR console you can have upto 6VFOs running simultaneously within
the Carved out spectrum.  In windows I have been able to use the B200 with
SDR# and the SDR Radio V 2.2 software. Linux is better if you want to do
much more advanced things via Gnu radio etc..

With SDR# you need to load an older FPGA image to use it, it ships with the
EXTIO packaged at wiki.spench.net

this is available at http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/USRP_Interfaces

you can do that with b2xx_fx3_utils -I path to fpga.bin file in the
directory where you installed the files from the website then b2xx_fx3_utils

• W path to fpga.bin file in the directory where you installed the files
  from the website

SDR console will work with the current FPGA bin.

both have pros and cons.

SDR# seems better suited for analyzing
SDR console seems better as a radio i.e. with the Multi VFOs and the
filters/demodulators seem to be better that the SDR#

I have the B200 it has two RX inputs which is nice, means I can have a
general omnidirectional for locating RF activity in the vicinity, then a
directional Yagi for source point location. You can switch between the two.

Now this stuff is CPU heavy. I have a dedicated workstation for this, 3770K
cpu, 8GB low latency memory and SSD's. and The cpu is averaging 40%
utilization with a 32RBW watching a 26Mhz section of bandwidth.

Anyhow this kind of capability would cost megabucks, and you would be paying
top dollar for gear from companies like Rhode & Schwarz. SDR is definitely
the wave of the future, this is the equivalent of experimenting with
radio/deforest tubes in the 1920s :)

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