Lime Micro has the Lime RFE amplifier. It has a very steep learning curve (mine is pretty much a very expensive dust magnet), but at least there's something. DK if there's actual support for it in GNU radio but their Lime Suite includes a tab for it. And the Lime SDRs include GPIO pins for keying amplifiers and sequencing preamps, etc. Again, not sure how much support is there for generic SDR programs.
At one time the charters of the various US government regulatory agencies included language that mandated they not only regulate but also promote the industries they control. So the FCC's charter included promoting use of radio, the FAA's encouraged aviation, etc. Not sure when that language was removed, but it seems to me the various "letter agencies" would be more in tune with niche and hobby corners if they actually were promoting use. I'm in the small UAV (drone) business, which grew out of hobbyists. Now everyone's getting into the act, and we see what's happening in Ukraine. But before that the FAA was so hostile to the hobby community it took an act of Congress for them to relent. Unfortunately that backfired as the community failed to police themselves, but at least the FCC isn't shutting down amateur radio, although it would only take a few high profile incidents with free-banders or other idiots to bring the hobby into a negative light.
Ready - Thanks for the feedback on the LimeSDRs. Those are definitely better developed (and in fairness, they're designed to be more sophisticated hardware) than the ADALM-PLUTO that I cited. So yes, the new LimeSDR Mini 2.0 would be a better radio stage for my imagined UHF SD Transceiver.
I've had two peripheral involvements in the aviation industry in my day jobs and what I remember was that the dual mandate to regulate AND promote were sometimes in direct conflict. I *think* that it was ultimately decided that the regulatory mission was primary, and the "promotion" was dropped, especially given that commercial aviation had become a behemoth of an industry, quite capable of promoting itself. I don't ever recall hearing about a similar "promotion" mission for the FCC - only regulatory. Yeah, Amateur Radio regularly gets dealt a "black eye" when some idiot with a radio and a bad idea does something really dumb and gets caught... and happens to have an Amateur Radio license. K1MAN comes to mind...
Lime Micro has the Lime RFE amplifier. It has a very steep learning curve (mine is pretty much a very expensive dust magnet), but at least there's something. DK if there's actual support for it in GNU radio but their Lime Suite includes a tab for it. And the Lime SDRs include GPIO pins for keying amplifiers and sequencing preamps, etc. Again, not sure how much support is there for generic SDR programs.
At one time the charters of the various US government regulatory agencies included language that mandated they not only regulate but also promote the industries they control. So the FCC's charter included promoting use of radio, the FAA's encouraged aviation, etc. Not sure when that language was removed, but it seems to me the various "letter agencies" would be more in tune with niche and hobby corners if they actually were promoting use. I'm in the small UAV (drone) business, which grew out of hobbyists. Now everyone's getting into the act, and we see what's happening in Ukraine. But before that the FAA was so hostile to the hobby community it took an act of Congress for them to relent. Unfortunately that backfired as the community failed to police themselves, but at least the FCC isn't shutting down amateur radio, although it would only take a few high profile incidents with free-banders or other idiots to bring the hobby into a negative light.
Ready - Thanks for the feedback on the LimeSDRs. Those are definitely better developed (and in fairness, they're designed to be more sophisticated hardware) than the ADALM-PLUTO that I cited. So yes, the new LimeSDR Mini 2.0 would be a better radio stage for my imagined UHF SD Transceiver.
I've had two peripheral involvements in the aviation industry in my day jobs and what I remember was that the dual mandate to regulate AND promote were sometimes in direct conflict. I *think* that it was ultimately decided that the regulatory mission was primary, and the "promotion" was dropped, especially given that commercial aviation had become a behemoth of an industry, quite capable of promoting itself. I don't ever recall hearing about a similar "promotion" mission for the FCC - only regulatory. Yeah, Amateur Radio regularly gets dealt a "black eye" when some idiot with a radio and a bad idea does something really dumb and gets caught... and happens to have an Amateur Radio license. K1MAN comes to mind...