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Re:Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains [pdf] by jjoonathan on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:08AM (#22748597)
That's good advice.

But yes, the best way to cure the ailments of zero-IF is to use low-IF, and the best way to cure the ailments of low-IF is to use high-IF and filters -- and we're back to standard RF architecture.

Nothing will make you respect traditional superheterodyne architecture quite like fighting with software image suppression / signal path correction.

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Re:Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains [pdf] by drmpeg on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:02AM (#22749337)
Or direct sampling. Although they're expensive, there are 10 Gsps ADC's these days.

https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad9213.html

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Re:Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains [pdf] by yourapostasy on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:31PM (#22751308)
Holy moly you weren't kidding, they're nearly $6K USD apiece. Does anyone's SDR kit drive these?
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