Palomar Amateur Radio Club STEM Experimentation Lab
📡 PARC STEMLab Software Defined Radios
These are the SDRs that are used in the PARC STEMLab. This selection of SDRs provides different band coverage and experiences for our users. As time goes on we intend to add more units to extend the STEMLab's capabilities.
-
More info: ⓘ Airspy HF Discovery Information
The Airspy HF Discovery SDR is a high-quality compact USB dongle.
It provides coverage of the HF bands from 500 kHz to 31 MHz. It can also receive from 60 MHz to 260 MHz.
PARC has two of these in the HF Bench that are accessible via PARC's OpenWebRX+ SDR servers.• Airspy HF Discovery 🔗 Airspy.com
-
More info: ⓘ RTL-SDR Information
The RTL-SDR Blog's version 3 SDR is a very low-cost but surprisingly capable SDR.
It can provide coverage from 24 MHz to approximately 1766 MHz (or more). The lab has two of these for VHF and above coverage in the Experimentation Bench.• RTL-SDR 🔗 About the RTL-SDR
• RTL-SDR Blog 🔗 RTL-SDR Blog -
More info: ⓘ ADALM Pluto Information
The Analog Devices Pluto is actually an SDR evaluation kit. It can both receive and transmit from 325 MHz to approximately 3.8 GHz. It is installed in the Experimentation Bench. Only its receive capability is enabled.
• ADALM Pluto 🔗 Analog Devices ADALM-Pluto
-
More info: ⓘ KiwiSDR Information
The Kiwi SDR is a popular self-contained wide-band HF SDR. It provides simultaneous coverage from 500 kHz to approximately 30 MHz. The KiwiSDR is accessed through the in-built OpenWebRX server via a web browser. The KiwiSDR's OpenWebRX server is based on OpenWebRX+ which the STEMLab uses for other HF SDRs.
There are quite a number of publicly available KiwiSDRs around the world that can be freely accessed (see the list at the link below.)• A list of publicly accessible KiwiSDRs: 🔗 Public KiwiSDR List
• KiwiSDR v2.0 🔗 KiwiSDR
Note: PARC does not sell or endorse any products mentioned in these pages.
Information is provided for education and instructional purposes only.