Wednesday, May 6, 2015

RDF Link

Another RDF Link
A great Doppler page:
http://www.homingin.com/FAQ.html

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Networked RDF Pipe Dream

Networked RDF

A project that has been bouncing around in my head for a few years is the idea of network enabled Radio Direction Finder systems that are deployed around a city or local area, for the purpose of locating interference.

links for doppler RDF
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/16/two-software-defined-radio-hacks-from-our-resident-sdr-guru/
http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/BorIP_Server
http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/SDRDF

SP4T RF switching chip
http://www.skyworksinc.com/uploads/documents/201098D.pdf
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Skyworks/SKY13322-375LF/?qs=WMHGlxXAKT9bvJt5%252bqKKKg%3d%3d&gclid=CLbThJeXq8UCFZBefgod2ZUAVA

goals of the project 
Bearings of signal location
Remote Tuning to various UHF and VHF frequencies.
audio streaming from each receiver

TOA RDF
KW2KW Lew #2 has a similar project in the works with networked RDF systems utilizing Time of Arrival referenced against a precision clock such as Precision Time Protocol
Links for linux based ptp:
PTP daemon
http://ptpd.sourceforge.net/