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Re:No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does by yincrash on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:03PM (#8336986)
Software defined radio[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio

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Re:No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does by teraflop on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:32PM (#8337136)
Bad example; SDR existed in prototype form as early as the 80s, and the USRP has been commercially available since 2005.
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Re:No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does by theshrike79 on Friday September 19, 2014 @05:01AM (#8339580)
Yes, but today you can order a USB SDR radio for under $10 and you have a crapton of FOSS software to use with it.
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