Integrating Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a Standard Transceiver. Revision 3

Published on: 2020/11/19

Author: Chavdar Levkov LZ1AQ

For a long time (from 2008), I have been using a homemade solution for antenna switching and audio path switching. Small but useful improvements were made during these years, which were result of obtained experience. Since I am convinced that this is a very useful device, I decided to make proper PCBs out of it and to offer it to the ham radio community as a ready product.

Go to https://sdrswitch.active-antenna.eu/ for more details.

There are also two videos:

This integration transforms your station into a state of the art setup: two independent or synchronized receivers and simultaneous waterfall display. You can use for receiving the TX antenna or a separate RX antenna even if your TRX does not have separate RX antenna input.

Links:

1. Integrating Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a Standard Transceiver
2. Integrating Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a Standard Transceiver. Revision 2