Airspy

Good news, Airspy is coming!

Today, august 2 2014, we finished validating the last technical details and started preparing the production with our partners at Itead Studio and we should have a first batch of 500 units available soon. An email should be sent to the registrants with a link to purchase Airspy directly from Itead's website.

Our special thanks to all the folks on the IRC channel #airspy @ freenode who supported the project from the beginning and helped with code, testing, ideas and encouragements.

What is Airspy?

Airspy is a very tiny (5×3 cm) software defined radio receiver capable of sampling 10MHz of spectrum anywhere between 24MHz and 1.7GHz. It is the fruit of countless hours of head scratching, fiddling and experimenting with the cutting edge Radio and DSP technologies. We believe it will change the way radio professionals and enthusiasts see the spectrum beyond 30MHz.

Frequency hopping GSM signals Early prototype Fitting in the new aluminum enclosure FM Broadcast band in Paris, 1.5km away from the Eiffel tower antennas GSM Band with strong signals 

Technical specifications:

24 – 1750 MHz RX range with no gaps

3.5 dB NF between 42 and 1002 MHz

12bit ADC @ 20 MSPS (80dB SFDR, 64dB SNR, 10.4 ENOB)

Cortex M4F @ 200 MHz and up to 204MHz with Multi Core MCU (dual M0)

1.5 ppm clock

1 RTC clock

External clock input (10 MHz to 100 MHz)

10 MHz panoramic spectrum view with 8MHz alias/image free

IQ or Real, 16bit fixed or 32bit float output streams

No IQ imbalance, DC offset or 1/F noise at the center of the spectrum

that plagues all the other SDRs

Extension ports: SGPIO, 2 x ADC channels, 2 x programmable clocks

Possible usages:

Spectrum Analyzer,

Fast scanner,

Radio surveillance,

Direction Finding,

Passive Radars,

ADS-B,

FM Radio,

Analog TV,

Digital Terrestrial TV,

Ham Radio,

Heck, this is a software defined radio! The only limitation is your imagination

May be you will want to get one or two boards to experience the joy of listening to the radio waves like nobody did before and with software you can hack by yourself? Then register so we can let you know when

the product is ready for purchase! Our special thanks to the all folks who helped debugging and improving the project.

(Source : airspy.com)