The times when you had to juggle with inductors and tuning capacitors to receive shortwave signals belong to the past, a concept called Software Defined Radio (SDR) having taken over big time. SDR utilizes the PC’s computing power rather than hardware to do the tuning, signal filtering and decoding, all heavily relying on the soundcard.

 

Elektor’s SDR has been an unprecedented success in terms of publication and sales and now’s a final opportunity to get one at an unbeatable price, together with the associated Preselector board. The SDR comes a ready assembled board. Since its publicatoon, various software control utilities have been written and released by enthusiatic users.

 

The Elektor SDR can be watched in action in a short video featuring designer/author Burkhard Kainka,

 

Tune into the Elektor OUTLET now, stocks are limited and the offer is only valid for a week from Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12.00 am CET through Thursday, October 27, 2011, 12.00 am CET, or until stocks are exhausted.