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.