San Francisco Meetup (#16)

We're back! And with new wireless mics!

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgbepw3G-uo

IRC: #cyberspectrum on Freenode

Agenda:

• "GNU Radio Tutorial Part 2" with Neel Pandeya

The tutorial series will continue! This time we will look at how to construct an FM radio receiver, and decode the RDS digital subcarrier. This will include:

• Explain concepts behind commercial FM and RDS

• Receiving mono FM using a from-scratch flowgraph

• Showing how to build 'gr-rds'

• Demonstrate stereo FM+RDS reception using 'gr-rds'

• Building GQRX

• Demonstrate FM reception using GQRX

Make sure you bring along your laptop and SDR!

• "Understanding the LTE Physical Layer" with Sandor Szilvasi (@sszilvasi (https://twitter.com/sszilvasi))

LTE is an incredible, yet complex, cellular networking standard. Sandor will break it down and explain how a LTE signal is constructed. He will also live demo the demodulation and decoding of local carriers.

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• "Interactive Install & Setup-fest" with the group

We would like to open up the forum to those who wish to get set up with SDR (hardware and/or software). Bring along your equipment, and as a group we can look at/debug the steps required to get you up and running. This could also include setting up an app, or fixing an Out-Of-Tree module, or even an environment issue on your laptop.