Welcome to WB5RVZ.COM
Welcome to my website. I have built this site to allow me to provide to hams worldwide the resuts of my labor of love, the documentation - in a Heathkit style - of the construction of the several "Softrock" Software-defined Radio (SDR) kits designed and distributed by my friend, Tony Parks.
SDR Theory and Information
John, W4JKL, has provided this list of valueable resources for those interested in diving deeper into the theory behind SDR. These reference, plus the "Theory of Operation" sections in each of the kits documented here on the WB5RVZ site, should take the reader a long way toward appreciating this truly fascinating aspect of our shared hobby.
- Go here for the original SoftRock-40 "SDR sampler project". This page (the kit was long ago "retired") has an excellent and east to follow exposition of the basic architecture that is applied in the kits documented on the WB5RVZ site.
- Go here for "A Software defined Radio for the Masses" QEX articles: which is the intellectual basis for Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR's, FlexRadio products.
- Go here for an introduction to the all-important mathematical foundation for SDR as an applicationm of Digital Signal Processing (DSP):
- Go here for Doug Smith's seminal tutorial on DSP (4 part series in QEX magazine)
- Go here for the latest table of contents of the Softrock40 Yahoo Group (reflector: you must join to see) files
Contents
Over time, I hope to add to this site, so you may want to come back periodically for updated info. The offerings are in the following categories:
- The SDR Builders' Notes series
- A new area, describing the ongoing efforts to put on a "SDR Buildathon" for a ham club
- Another new area, the WB5RVZ/s Genesis Radio Kits area (describing my adventures with a new series of SDR transceiver
kits from GenesisRadio, beginning with:
- the Genesis G40 (no SMT!) 40m Transceiver augmented by WB5RVZ expanded G40 documentation.
- the Genesis G3020 (no SMT!) 30/20m Transceiver augmented by WB5RVZ expanded G3020 documentation.
Current Documentation Projects
MOBO4.3 Kit (beta builders' notes - under construction
TX ES 73
DE Robby WB5RVZ