Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HF transmitter hardware solutions

[Ron Economos]

There's a transverter for the bladeRF.

https://www.nuand.com/blog/product/hf-vhf-transverter/

hackRF specification has been changed to 1 MHz to 6 GHz.

https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

Ron

On 04/06/2016 07:02 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> What solutions are people using for transmitting on HF bands (1 - 30 MHz)?
>
> There is a lot of information online about upconverters for receiving
> the HF bands.
>
> However, like receivers, many of the SDR transmitters only seem to cover
> bands above 30MHz[1] e.g.
>
> HackRF:     30MHz - ...
> bladeRF :  300MHz - ...
> USRP B2x0:  50MHz - ...
>
> Is anybody using a downconverter or is there some other SDR model that
> natively supports the HF spectrum and is accessible to hobbyists?
>
> Some other things come to mind:
> - power amps for HF bands
> - RF switches for using a single antenna in half-duplex mode,
> alternating between receive and transmit
>
>
>
> 1.
> http://www.taylorkillian.com/2013/08/sdr-showdown-hackrf-vs-bladerf-vs-usrp.html