On 7/2/25 2:20 AM, Adrian Musceac wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 July 2025 17:13:21 EEST Richard Owlett wrote:My father was a ham in the 50's. I had a 2nd class commercial license in the 60's. I had never even heard of "software defined radio" until multiple replies in debian-user a week ago mentioned SDR dongles.Hi, There is an excellent online book explaining in simple language some software defined radio topics here: https://pysdr.org/content/intro.html
That and Christoph's link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio resolve my confusion.
In my original debian-user post[1] I asked was there a USB device that would tune to a particular FM station and emit audio &/or MP3 data.
The responders, having seen "computer" and "radio" close together, jumped to *confusion* declaring SDR the solution, [ignoring that I was working and thus my CPU was otherwise engaged ;].
Thank you both [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/06/msg00413.html