Pocket FM

Pocket FM(pocket-fm.com)

30 points by sauerbraten 10 years ago | 10 comments

gravypod 10 years ago |

Is this someone's attempt at marketing SDR to the masses? This is nothing new, and I'm surprised to see how little information they put forward about it.

neilwillgettoit 10 years ago | |

It's just a low power FM station with a raspberry pi in it as a controller. It would be highly illegal to use this device in most modern nations without a license.

voltagex_ 10 years ago | | |

The Nokia N900 could broadcast short-range FM with RDS, I'm not sure what advantages this has.

neilwillgettoit 10 years ago |

This seems like a bad idea. It would make targeting dissent with kinetic means very easy. It's one of the whole reasons that shortwave broadcasts are still around.

msandford 10 years ago | |

How so? What off the shelf guidance systems exist to home in on FM radio?

I'm sure there are tons of anti-SAM guidance packages which will steer something towards a SAM transmitter, but that's in an entirely different frequency band from what I remember.

Terminal guidance systems tend to be in the UHF and SHF bands, generally gigahertz and up where as FM is VHF at about 100MHz.

It'd take a fair amount of work to re-engineer a guidance package to find such a lower power FM transmitter and perform terminal guidance on it. Especially when the world is awash in FM all around there too.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/08/the-f-35-vs-the-vhf-threat/

bobowzki 10 years ago | | |

It's this easy.

http://youtu.be/NSC4Y8yA-jY