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Would you like to review the NI USRP B206mini-i?

OwainM

We are exploring the opportunity to offer you the USRP B206mini-i from NI   to review.
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What is the B206mini-i?

The NI USRP B206mini-i is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) / cognitive radio witha frequency range of between 70 Mhz to 6 GHz. It contains a user-programmable AMD Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA and the RF front end uses the Analog Devices AD9364 RFIC transceiver with 56 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. The board is powered by USB 3.0, and includes connection for GPIO, JTAG, 10 MHz clock reference or PPS time reference input signal.

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https://www.ni.com/en/shop/hardware/software-defined-radios/model-usrp-b206mini-i

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/usrp-b206mini-i-specs/page/specs.html 

https://learn.ni.com/learn/article/getting-started-with-usrp 




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  • yeah wow cool toy, I am not sure I could do it justice but some experiments I would love to be able to run are

    1. attempt Passive Radar - detect pasing aircraft by correlating direct signal against reflections from the airplane
    2. a home EMC Survey - sweep 70 MHz to 1 GHz for all the worst RF polluters, I have done this a bit with a TinySA and you find some cool things emitting RF
    3. I had a car stolen recently (I ended up finding it randomly abandoned in next suburb) but it has made me think of checking out the reply attacks on my car remote control
    4. see if I can measure the Doppler shift of individual satelites by capturing raw satellite signals for GPS tuned to 1575.42 MHz
    5. see if I can have a 2.4GHz Household RF Map watch Wi-Fi channels, Bluetooth hopping, Zigbee sensors, and microwave oven leakage coexist in real time. Turn devices on and off, identify each protocol purely by signal shape before confirming with a decode tool.

    good luck all!!!

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  • yeah wow cool toy, I am not sure I could do it justice but some experiments I would love to be able to run are

    1. attempt Passive Radar - detect pasing aircraft by correlating direct signal against reflections from the airplane
    2. a home EMC Survey - sweep 70 MHz to 1 GHz for all the worst RF polluters, I have done this a bit with a TinySA and you find some cool things emitting RF
    3. I had a car stolen recently (I ended up finding it randomly abandoned in next suburb) but it has made me think of checking out the reply attacks on my car remote control
    4. see if I can measure the Doppler shift of individual satelites by capturing raw satellite signals for GPS tuned to 1575.42 MHz
    5. see if I can have a 2.4GHz Household RF Map watch Wi-Fi channels, Bluetooth hopping, Zigbee sensors, and microwave oven leakage coexist in real time. Turn devices on and off, identify each protocol purely by signal shape before confirming with a decode tool.

    good luck all!!!

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