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Feedback Requested - Brand New SDR

pope

Hey everyone,

We’re building the next generation of RF technology at krtkl and are reaching out to the community for input.

If you’re an engineer, researcher, or developer working with SDRs or wireless systems, we’d love to hear from you. We're especially interested in understanding your current challenges, workflows, and where existing tools fall short.

If you're up for a quick chat (or even just want to share your thoughts in the thread), drop a reply or shoot an email to pope (at) krtkl (dot) com.

Thanks in advance!

- Micah @ krtkl

  • Hi,

    Some initial thoughts from my perspective (I might add more later):

    1. Decent software drivers for Linux (ideally source and releases. Buildable for x64, ARM) as well as a decent driver for Windows. Bonus points for Mac.

    2. Example demos for transmit and receive with Python, Matlab, GNU SDR, C++.

    3. Top quality exceptional documentation for (1) and (2). If you don't have the resources for that then hire someone, rather than pretend the problem doesn't exist. SDRs fail miserably at all or some of items 1 to 3.

    4. Ideally capable of operation down to at least 40 MHz if not lower, so that it can work with IF at such frequencies.

    5. To guild the lily, an evaluation kit with a popular single-board computer (SBC) supplied, and examples using that SBC.

    6. Some genuine reviews. No-one wants to be the guinea pig, they want to see some unbiased information before purchasing.

  • I pushed your question topic through Gemini.  This sounds like the kind of SBC technology used in drone applications.  I am "none of the 3" you asked about.  What a cool idea.  Does that help you? 

  • in reply to shabaz

      shabaz, thank you so much for your feedback, this is super helpful. If you'd be open to a brief call we'd love to speak with you! 

  • I am just a casual user of SDR, but I would like to see more options to analyze the signals and decode the information within a given frequency.

    I am still amazed at the SDR technology.

    I learned RF communications over fifty years ago and at one time held an FCC second class license.

    I also worked on the USAF integrated communications, Navigation, identification Avionics project where we used common hardware to access, decode and use various CNI sources within a single package.

    A lot of the technology in that program was later used to build the SDR capability.