Getting started with the Elektor SDR shield

The SDR shield for Arduino published in the July/August issue of Elektor magazine is a complete universal radio receiver, suitable for listening to radio signals from 150 kHz to 30 MHz. In this second video, the designer of the SDR shield explores the options offered by SDR programs for optimizing the reception of radio stations.

Elektor has built and published a lot of radio receivers over the years. Back in 2007 we published a project for a software defined radio (SDR) with a USB interface. Now we have updated the previous design to create a new version in the form of an Arduino shield.

This shield is based on the extremely popular SDR-project published in the May 2007 issue of Elektor Electronis. The original author Burkhard Kainka also made this new design, now as a shield for an Arduino Uno (-based) microcontroller board. The antenna preselector section was omitted and the CY27EE16 programmable oscillator replaced by a SI5351 from Silicon Labs.

This shield is based on the extremely popular SDR-project published in the May 2007 issue of Elektor Electronics. The original author Burkhard Kainka also made this new design, now as a shield for an Arduino Uno (-based) microcontroller board. The antenna preselector section was omitted and the CY27EE16 programmable oscillator replaced by a SI5351 from Silicon Labs.

Today all & sundry, devices included, have to be “connected”, 24/7, all year round. You may have a Facebook account, but what about your oscilloscope? Does your multimeter tweet enough? Is your soldering iron linked in? You may be a non-communicative nerd but your bench power supply may be craving for social interaction.

Today all & sundry, devices included, have to be “connected”, 24/7, all year round. You may have a Facebook account, but what about your oscilloscope? Does your multimeter tweet enough? Is your soldering iron linked in? You may be a non-communicative nerd but your bench power supply may be craving for social interaction.