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Re:HackRF, an open source SDR platform by aray on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:11PM (#6136149)
It's also almost $900, and PCIe (not USB), and doesn't look very portable at all:

http://www.pervices.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product...

At that price point you might as well start looking at USRPs.

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Re:HackRF, an open source SDR platform by yyao on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:46PM (#6136375)
They are very different.

If you are looking for something that you can run from a USB cable, this could be the perfect tool. Someone called this the Bus Pirate of RF and I think its a great way to describe this tool.

The SDRs from Per Vices are geared towards low latency and high bandwidth. You can't squeeze 4x PCIe bandwidth into a USB cable. Neither can you get sub microsecond latencies. You can't get this over an ethernet connection either. This is the application where the Per Vices SDRs come out as clear winners.

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