MDSR
    Modulation
    Demodulation Software Radio 
    (SDR)
     
    MDSR
    based upon SDR
    
        A radio
        communication system where the modulating and
        demodulating components that have typically been
        implemented in hardware are instead implemented using
        software on a personal computer or other embedded
        computing devices using by a converter. While the concept
        is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital
        electronics are making practical many processes that were
        once only theoretically possible!
        A basic MDSR(SDR) may consist of a computer (PC) equipped
        with a sound card, or other analog-to-digital converter,
        preceded by some form of RF front end. Significant
        amounts of signal processing are handed over to the
        general purpose processor, rather than done using
        special-purpose hardware. Such a design produces a radio
        that can receive and transmit a different form of radio
        protocol (sometimes referred to as a waveform) just by
        running different software and any soundcard!
        The MDSR software performs all of the demodulation,
        filtering (both radio frequency and audio frequency),
        signal enhancement (equalization and binaural
        presentation). Uses include every common amateur
        modulation: morse code, single sideband modulation,
        frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, and a variety
        of digital modes such as radioteletype, slow-scan
        television, and packet radio. Amateurs also experiment
        with new modulation methods: for instance, the DREAM
        open-source project decodes the COFDM technique used by
        Digital Radio Mondiale and compatible stations.
        demodulator
        mf 455 khz
    
    
        The
        ideal receiver scheme would be to attach an
        analog-to-digital converter to an antenna. A digital
        signal processor would read the converter, and then its
        software would transform the stream of data from the
        converter to any other form the application requires.
        An ideal transmitter would be similar. A digital signal
        processor would generate a stream of numbers. These would
        be sent to a digital-to-analog converter connected to a
        radio antenna.
        The ideal scheme is, due to the actual technology
        progress limits, not completely realizable, however.
        Most receivers utilize a variable frequency oscillator,
        mixer, and filter to tune the desired signal to a common
        intermediate frequency or baseband, where it is then
        sampled by the analog-to-digital converter. However, in
        some applications it is not necessary to tune the signal
        to an intermediate frequency and the radio frequency
        signal is directly sampled by the analog-to-digital
        converter (after amplification).
        Real analog-to-digital converters lack the discrimination
        to pick up sub-microvolt, nanowatt radio signals.
        Therefore a low-noise amplifier must precede the
        conversion step and this device introduces its own
        problems. For example if spurious signals are present
        (which is typical), these compete with the desired
        signals within the amplifier's dynamic range. They may
        introduce distortion in the desired signals, or may block
        them completely. The standard solution is to put
        band-pass filters between the antenna and the amplifier,
        but these reduce the radio's flexibility - which some see
        as the whole point of a software defined radio. Real
        software radios often have two or three analog
        "channels" that are switched in and out. These
        contain matched filters, amplifiers and sometimes a
        mixer. soundcard, interface
        
    
    About
    the Author of DADP and BiLIF projects Alex
    Schwarz (VE7DXW) is an advanced HAM and a graduate of the
    HTL, Innsbruck. He moved to Vancouver (Canada) in 1990 and
    has since been involved in professional communication systems
    (LDR trunking) and digital point to point wireless network
    systems. In 2005 he started work in the Biomedical
    Engineering Department at C&W Hospital in Vancouver. 
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