Great stuff, imagine doing radio astronomy with this more capable RFSoC SDR platform with 50% discount for academics at around USD2K [1]. It also has free textbook to go with it [2].
Anybody has experience using rasdr4? What is it capable of?
0xEF · 18h ago
It's a bit niche in the radio hobby, but very cool. That said, it is marketed to a very specific type of radio hobbyist which is probably best explained by looking at the first few sections of the manual, specifically around section 2a if you want to get a better sense of who this is for
I feel like 2a just says "It's for radio astronomy", is that what you mean?
0xEF · 18h ago
Sort of. We have to understand what a SARA project is, how and where DSP would be employed, etc...hence why I mentioned its pretty niche. Radio astronomy, from my outsider understanding, is not something a newbie just walks in the door and picks up on. You have to have some experience with typical SDR use, data collection, etc.
pfdietz · 17h ago
> Radio astronomy, from my outsider understanding, is not something a newbie just walks in the door and picks up on.
[1] RFSoC 4x2 Kit:
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program/aup-boar...
[2] RFSoC book:
https://www.rfsocbook.com/
User Manual: https://rasdr.org/release/1.2.4/RASDR-Users-manual-v1.7.5.pd...
Unless you're Grote Reber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Reber
>For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer.