Title: Software Defined Community Radio Using Low Cost Hardware and Free Software
Year of Publication: | May - 2016 |
Page Numbers: | 51-55 |
Authors: | Amean Al-safi, Lalith Narasimhan, Bradley Bazuin |
Conference Name: | 2016 Universal Technology Management Conference
(UTMC)
- United States |
Abstract:
Community radio is the third model of radio broadcasting besides the commercial and public systems. It aims to provide individuals with local news and information that are important to a small community. This paper presents a new software defined radio approach to implementing community radio using Raspberry Pi, GNURadio, USB RTL – SDR sticks, and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). The main goal is to define and demonstrate a low cost, flexible transmitter and receiver using cost effective devices such as Raspberry PI computer, RTL-SDR dongle and USRP.