20:25 <DocScrutinizer05> x29a: no matter where on IRC I go, you're already there :-)

20:28 <x29a> DocScrutinizer05: lol, which channel did you join?

20:29 <DocScrutinizer05> ircs://irc.darkfasel.net:6697/#rad1o

20:29 <x29a> ah, lol

21:02 <x29a> DocScrutinizer05: now back to work, finish your awesome gadget :)

21:03 <DocScrutinizer05> will do :-)

21:04 <DocScrutinizer05> just convinced another user to get a second one preordered ;-D

21:04 <DocScrutinizer05> thanks to the awesome dual SIM slot which also works as smartcard reader (and more)

21:05 <Wizzup> I need to check the monies, but I think it is doable :)

21:05 <DocScrutinizer05> wish we could get SDR, but it's not really ready for primetime yet, in power-striving embedded

21:07 <DocScrutinizer05> well, we have some SDR of sorts in NFC, thanks to wpwrak's awesome work

21:07 <DocScrutinizer05> not a generic SDR though, only for one frequency

21:08 <DocScrutinizer05> actually it's rather a hypersmart NFC than a SDR

21:12 <FIQ> SDR? radio?

21:12 <DocScrutinizer05> yep

21:12 <FIQ> ah

21:13 <DocScrutinizer05> I just met x29a in a channel for rad1o (SDR gadget that came with cccamp ticket)

21:13 <FIQ> ah

21:13 <DocScrutinizer05> also see 'hackrf'

21:14 <DocScrutinizer05> this is such an awesome device

21:14 <DocScrutinizer05> basically arbitrary signals RX/TX in a range 50-6000MHz

21:15 <DocScrutinizer05> alas we couldn't get cert for such a device, *ever* ;-D

21:16 <FIQ> Heh

21:16 <FIQ> glhf with that cert

21:17 <DocScrutinizer05> :-)

21:18 <DocScrutinizer05> hackrf/rad1o is power greedy, huge, and expensive. No way to get such stuff into a Neo900 this year or next 2

21:18 <DocScrutinizer05> however see xes_' awesome work regarding RTL-SDR and N900

21:19 <DocScrutinizer05> RTL-SDR is still power greedy but rather small and not really expensive (devices start at 15 bucks)

21:21 <DocScrutinizer05> one downside of all SDR: you need a beefy CPU to process the signal in ... tadaa S_oftware (D_efined R_adio), and _that_ will always be power greedy no matter what, unless you use specialized chips. And then it's again the end of S_D_

21:25 <DocScrutinizer05> rtl2832 based USB dongles have specialized 'CPU' to decode DVB-T but they have an option to get the raw I/Q signals via A/D and USB out of the stick. That's how all SDR works: digitize I/Q (the real and 90° shifted signal of IF) and then process those on a CPU by sw defined algo

22:48 <Oksana> (awesome dual SIM slot which also works as smartcard reader (and more)) I have mentioned to local transport authority that they should produce their transport card in SIM form-factor, for NFC-enabled phones. No response, so far