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Re:LimeSDR Now Backed by the European Space Agency by tomswartz07 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:37PM (#16495390)
It would be a good proxy for those radios, but if you're licensed and are simply looking for an inexpensive transceiver, Baofeng UV-5R radios can be found on Amazon for ~$20 and will get you working right out of the box.

If you try to mock up a station using a TX/RX SDR system, it would probably much more expensive and require significantly more hardware.

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Re:LimeSDR Now Backed by the European Space Agency by cschmittiey on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:50PM (#16495524)
He's probably looking for an HF rig -- baofengs definitely don't do HF. As someone else said, the LimeSDR would work well, just need an amplifier because the power out is on the order of milliwatts.
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Re:LimeSDR Now Backed by the European Space Agency by znpy on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#16506074)
> He's probably looking for an HF rig

Indeed.

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