Eric Mortensen3:13 PM

So, we're lucky to have a sizable GNU Radio contingent here today, and I'd love it if everyone involved could write a little about who they are and what they do within the org.

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Derek Kozel3:14 PM

Bios!

Martin Braun3:15 PM

I'm more of a UEFI guy

Derek Kozel3:15 PM

troll

Derek Kozel3:15 PM

I'm enthusiastic. I think that's the biggest point. I did my university in electrical and computer engineering and joined the Amateur Radio club after the first year.

Marcus Müller3:16 PM

so, how did you end up with GNU Radio, by the way?

Wetwork3:16 PM

Good Day everyone

Derek Kozel3:16 PM

I was really fortunate that it had some ancient equipment and neglected in the corner a software defined radio

Mike Anderson3:16 PM

@Derek Are you still a HAM?

Derek Kozel3:16 PM

Yes I am. MW0LNA in the UK

Derek Kozel3:16 PM

and K0ZEL in the USA. mostly "active" in the microwave bands

Clayton Smith3:17 PM

That's a pretty sweet call sign!

Mike Anderson3:17 PM

@Derek, Cool, I'm WB4PHJ here in just outside of Washington, DC.

Martin Braun3:17 PM

Derek gets more ham cred just for his call signs than others for their gear :)

Derek Kozel3:17 PM

Marcus, I got into GNU Radio during my masters. I did an evolutionary algorithms project optimizing digital modulation and used GNU Radio as the simulator

Derek Kozel3:17 PM

I forget why I knew about it at that point

Derek Kozel3:18 PM

I ended up presenting that work at GNU Radio Conference in Washington DC, 2014

Mike Anderson3:18 PM

Is GNU radio being used in any commercial transceivers?

Marcus Müller3:18 PM

@Mike Anderson indeed, it is!

Marcus Müller3:18 PM

There's a company running satellite base stations, for example.

Derek Kozel3:18 PM

Absolutely

Mike Anderson3:18 PM

Cool, which ones if you can think of any?

Martin Braun3:18 PM

That said, we often have a hard time finding out about who is using GNU Radio

Derek Kozel3:19 PM

I can't think of anyone openly selling radios intended for the general public that use GNU Radio

Derek Kozel3:19 PM

but there are a fair number of commercial specialized systems that use it, often designed by the company actually using the systems

Mike Anderson3:19 PM

I can imagine that not many users are willing to say that publicly. But, under GPL, don't they have to reveal that?

Nate3:19 PM

I'm one of the GNU Radio Project Officers. I have been involved with organizing the upcoming GNU Radio Conference 2018 in Henderson, NV. I’ve rebuilt the gnuradio.org site to migrate it from a WP arch. One of the pet projects I am working on is a web/browser based version of GRC/frontend for GNU Radio.

Martin Braun3:20 PM

While we're at it: I'm the community manager for GNU Radio, and have done various activities for the project over the last 10 years. Also a member of the foundation.

Eric Mortensen3:21 PM

Thanks for the intros. Nice to meet you! Here's a question from @Chris Handwerker:

"I'm a ham and a programmer who would like to get their feet wet with SDR and GNU radio.

What's the best place to get started for someone with a decent technical background? Is there a kit or a specific SDR I should get? Could you recommend good literature?"

Derek Kozel3:21 PM

GPL would require them to release the source code directly using GNU Radio to their customers if they sold a system that used GNU Radio

Martin Braun3:21 PM

@Chris Handwerker : I would get my hands on an RTL-SDR dongle first

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Derek Kozel3:21 PM

If it's internal to a company then the end user already has access to the Source code

Marcus Müller3:21 PM

@Mike Anderson I'd argue a talk titled "A Global Satellite Communications Network with...