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    <p>Yes, direct sampling could be used. But to get good IF image
      rejection, you would probably need two stages of analog
      down-conversion. One to 700 MHz or so and then another to the low
      IF (at least 5 MHz). So that's two local oscillators that
      contribute to phase noise.</p>
    <p>High speed ADC's aren't cheap either. The common device used in a
      lot of designs is the LTC2208. 120 Msps is a little overkill, but
      then you have more options for the frequency of the low IF.</p>
    <p> I'm also told that volume pricing of the AD9361 is much much
      less than the single quantity price you see on DigiKey. The
      bladeRF 2.0 uses the AD9361 and is only $480.<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">To get IQ from a single ADC, you use a
      DDC (digital down converter) in an FPGA. In this case, decimation
      is used to get from 120 Msps to the desired sample rate.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ron W6RZ</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/19 02:16, Ahmet Inan wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Wow that is a nice little expensive chip. It even
        takes care of the problems I mentioned.
        <div>But does it need to be an expensive part?</div>
        <div>Wouldn't a low IF receiver design with only one ADC channel
          and a bigger FFT for the channelizer (or another down
          conversion in the digital domain) make us happier?</div>
        <div>It would even avoid the imbalance problems of the IQ
          signal.</div>
        <div>Of course then the FPGA gets more expensive .. but I like
          the digital domain more than tinkering with analog components
          :D</div>
        <div>IMHO, it is more important to have a fixed and low jitter
          ADC clock for the channelization as the fine tuning and
          equalization for each user needs to be done separately after
          channelization in the digital domain anyway. </div>
        <div>Ahmet</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:52
          PM Ron Economos via Ground-Station
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute"><ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute></a> wrote:<br>
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            <p>Yes, the ADC's are clocked at a variable rate. It's all
              done inside the AD9361. On the B2x0, you can oversample a
              little depending on the sample rate. The maximum clock is
              61.44 MHz, so sample rates of 30.72 to 61.44 Msps are
              limited to 1X, 15.36 to 30.72 Msps = 2X, 7.68 to 15.6 Msps
              = 4X and so on.</p>
            <p>You can have any sample rate you want with the B2x0. For
              example, DVB-T/T2 is 64,000,000 / 7 =
              9.14285714285714...... Msps. There's a minimum step size,
              so you can't get that exact sample rate, but pretty close.<br>
            </p>
            <p>The ADC's inside the AD9361 are sigma-delta 1-bit design,
              so they're highly oversampled themselves. But that isn't
              of concern to the user.</p>
            <p>Ron W6RZ<br>
            </p>
            <div class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743moz-cite-prefix">On
              1/27/19 11:25, Zach Leffke via Ground-Station wrote:<br>
            </div>
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              <p>This is cool.  Ron maybe you can school me a bit
                here.....</p>
              <p>1.  Got it with the Quadrature ADC, running at half the
                required rate, but producing I and Q, so Nyquist is
                happy.....</p>
              <p>2.  So you are saying the ADCs are clocked at variable
                rates?  Here is my major disconnect......with a B210 and
                UHD, I can request sample rates (complex) from something
                like 200 kHz to 20 MHz (but have to make sure the clock
                rate of the USRP divided by the sample rate requested is
                an even integer).  I thought the ADC clocks ran at a
                fixed rate and then decimation was performed in the
                FPGA, and that the 'even integer' requirement was
                derived from the DSP going on in the FPGA (and integer
                math being more computationally efficient).  It sounds
                like you are saying that there is maybe a bank of
                acceptable pre-scalers that when I request a particular
                rate, the appropriate pre-scaler is applied to the
                master clock, and that is the rate the ADC is clocked
                at.  Am I getting that right?<br>
              </p>
              <p>Seems like there may be pros and cons to either
                technique.  With a fixed ADC rate that is massively
                oversampling the input signal, can't we achieve
                increased dynamic range?  For every factor of 4
                oversampling we gain 1 bit in ADC resolution, or 6 dB in
                dynamic range.  I thought this was how the Ettus
                products worked and similarly how the Flex Radio systems
                worked (with the FPGA handling the half-band filtering
                and decimation to the desired output rate requested by
                the host computer).  I have no experience with the
                BladeRF or LimeSDRs.  I know in the UHD source block you
                can tweak the clock rate of the motherboards, but
                generally I thought that's how they worked.  I feel like
                there might be another pro in there in terms of Aliasing
                and relaxed filtering requirements when oversampling
                (images are farther apart)?  A con to this technique I
                would guess is higher power consumption (ADCs running at
                a higher rate and needing the pre-processing for the
                decimation).  If the clock rate of the ADC can be
                controlled on the other hand, you would lose the
                oversampling capability, but would decrease power
                consumption.  Seems like the hardware would have to be a
                little more complicated in order to handle the multiply
                or divides to achieve the desired clock rate (that I
                assume is derived from a reference master clock that is
                higher than the ADC clock rate).  That control
                capability though is probably not that much more taxing
                though in terms of power (just picking the right
                prescaler).<br>
              </p>
              <p>Could it be that some SDRs use one technique (like the
                one I described, massive oversample then decimate, maybe
                USRPs), and others use a different technique (like the
                one you described, maybe BladeRF, LimeSDR, etc.)?</p>
              <p><br>
              </p>
              <p>If I'm roughly accurate in the above description, then
                isn't the question Michelle is driving towards is what
                technique would we want to use?  Presumably for a ground
                station implementation, power isn't a concern (compared
                to the payload) and therefore it would be desirable to
                oversample and have the added benefits of higher dynamic
                range.  In other words, maybe the power consumption
                trade-off is worth it.  Then again, maybe higher dynamic
                range isn't really necessary (only a single downlink)
                and its not worth the added DSP complexity.</p>
              <p>On the payload side, I would guess that having a higher
                dynamic range on the uplink is actually desirable and
                worth the tradeoff in power consumption.  I'm basing
                this on the assumption that if 1000 hams build ground
                stations, the uplink powers will be wildly different and
                we may need to handle very strong and very weak uplink
                signals, and thus a higher dynamic range would be
                desirable.  On the other hand.....using something like
                an AD9361 with 12 bits of resolution is 72 dB of dynamic
                range out of the gate (maybe a little less when
                determining ENOB).......maybe that's enough and
                oversampling isn't necessary.........<br>
              </p>
              <p><br>
              </p>
              <p>This is good stuff, I like learning new things.  Am I
                roughly getting this right or am I out in left field
                some where?<br>
              </p>
              <p><br>
              </p>
              <p>-Zach, KJ4QLP<br>
              </p>
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              <div class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743moz-cite-prefix">On
                1/27/2019 4:07 AM, Ron Economos via Ground-Station
                wrote:<br>
              </div>
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                <p>SDR's like the Ettus B2x0, bladeRF and LimeSDR are
                  direct conversion. Here's a block diagram of the
                  architecture.</p>
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                    alt="direct conversion" class="" width="768"
                    height="483"></p>
                <p>The PLL is tuned to the frequency of interest. The IF
                  is 0 Hz. Each ADC runs at the desired sample rate and
                  provides 1/2 the sample rate of bandwidth. The analog
                  baseband low-pass filters are set to 1/2 the
                  bandwidth. No decimation required.</p>
                <p> In fact, the bladeRF has no filtering at all in it's
                  FPGA. If you set the baseband analog filters to wider
                  than the desired bandwidth, you can see the aliasing
                  (the TX is also direct conversion). The sample rate
                  for this OFDM signal was 6.86 MHz.<br>
                </p>
                <img src="cid:part3.3E9C467E.7B04F734@comcast.net"
                  alt="aliasing" class="" width="800" height="480">
                <p>Same signal with the baseband filter set properly to
                  5.5 MHz (each low-pass filter set to 2.75 MHz).</p>
                <p><img src="cid:part4.03FDDFB2.A14C4264@comcast.net"
                    alt="no alias" class="" width="800" height="480"><br>
                </p>
                <p>Ron W6RZ<br>
                </p>
                <div class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743moz-cite-prefix">On
                  1/26/19 23:51, Zach Leffke via Ground-Station wrote:<br>
                </div>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <p>I'll attempt to clarify without adding to much
                    noise......I think I'm seeing both sides of this
                    here......Though I'm no DSP expert, so fair warning
                    I might misspeak a bit.</p>
                  <p>A lot of what has been discussed so far is about
                    down conversion, not decimation.........<br>
                  </p>
                  <p>The trick is the 'guts' of the SDR, specifically
                    the RFIC and the ADC used.  Say we have an IF of 700
                    MHz coming out of an LNB.  The upper edge of our
                    signal would be at 705 MHz.  According to Nyquist,
                    you would have to sample that IF signal at 1410
                    Megasamples per second (at least).  Any lower than
                    that, and images of the sampled signal will overlap
                    and corrupt the data (Aliasing).  Say your ADC had
                    14 bits.......that's a lot of data, probably more
                    than most FPGAs can handle.</p>
                  <p>The trick in the SDR (pick your vendor, I'm staying
                    generic here) is that it has a tunable front end
                    that performs another level of down conversion in
                    the analog domain before sampling (for example, the
                    AD9361 in Ettus B210s, E310s, etc).  This takes the
                    700 MHz signal down to say 20 MHz (made that number
                    up), with an ADC running at a fixed rate..... say 80
                    MHz (also made that number up).  <br>
                  </p>
                  <p>At this point, my DSP-fu is weak, but where I'm
                    going with this is that the 80 MHz sampling is real
                    samples, represents 40 MHz of RF bandwidth
                    (Nyquist).  This can be represented as a stream of
                    complex samples (IQ) running at half the rate,
                    though each sample is twice the size, one for I and
                    one for Q .......(Nyquist isn't violated, because
                    even at half the rate, you have two samples, one
                    In-phase, and one Quadrature)......</p>
                  <p>So now we have a stream at 40 MSPS (complex),
                    spanning from 0 to +40 MHz, with our signal camped
                    out at +20 MHz.  So then we tune digitally to center
                    our signal at 0 MHz...aka complex baseband.  Now we
                    have a stream still at 40 MSPS (complex), but
                    spanning from -20 MHz to +20 MHz.  Negative
                    frequencies are OK in the complex domain.  Our
                    signal of interest is now centered at 0 MHz, but is
                    spanning from -5 MHz to +5 MHz.<br>
                  </p>
                  <p>I think what Michelle is getting at is that we
                    don't want to have an FPGA processing a 40 MHz wide
                    stream of data, when we only need to worry about 10
                    MHz.  Since our signal is centered at 0 MHz, we can
                    start throwing away samples........Decimation.  We
                    can toss 3 out of every 4 samples out (decimate by
                    4, and filter), which leaves us with a 10 MSPS
                    stream of complex samples.  This also has some
                    benefit in that we are also rejecting the noise
                    contributions of those unnecessary samples that we
                    tossed out (linked to the B in kTB).<br>
                  </p>
                  <p>Everything that was (horribly) described above is
                    handled 'under the hood' by the UHD drivers in Ettus
                    products for example.  When you tell a UHD source
                    block the sample rate you want (usually the
                    'samp_rate' variable that shows up in the flowgraph)
                    what you are actually telling it is the 'requested'
                    sample rate on the output of the above process.  The
                    onboard ADC still runs at the fixed higher rate (80
                    Mhz in my example), but based on your input into the
                    UHD source block, it will automatically select the
                    right parameters to ensure that after sampling,
                    conversion to complex baseband (including tuning
                    your requested center frequency to 0 MHz),
                    decimation and filtering, that the rate you
                    requested is fed out to the host computer.  This is
                    why you have to be careful about selecting sample
                    rates with UHD.........some of you have probably
                    seen the debug output where it warns you that the
                    division of the ADC clock rate by the requested
                    sample rate is not an even integer and to expect
                    'CIC rolloff'........basically it couldn't cleanly
                    do the decimation you requested (again....something
                    here about the value of half band filters in the
                    FPGA that are part of the conversion to complex
                    baseband and decimation.....sorry for my weak
                    DSP-fu).  You know you got it wrong when you see a
                    'hump' of spectrum when the spectrum should be
                    'flat'.<br>
                  </p>
                  <p>Now we can run that 10 MSPS complex stream of
                    samples through the demodulation process and extract
                    the 'frames of interest' for any particular
                    user........that would be demultiplexing (throw out
                    the frames for everyone else, I only want the frames
                    for me).</p>
                  <p>I would offer that on the ground side, there is no
                    channelizer in the mix.....you must receive the
                    entire 10 MHz signal to recover the full downlink
                    data stream, since there is only one time
                    multiplexed, 10 MHz wide signal.</p>
                  <p>On the satellite payload on the other hand....you
                    WILL want a channelizer.  Lets say the uplink is 10
                    MHz wide, and supports 1000 channels, so each 10 kHz
                    wide.  In order to demodulate 1000 channels in
                    parallel, somewhere in there you need to tune 1000
                    times to center each uplink signal to complex
                    baseband and decimate to 10 ksps (complex). 
                    executing 1000 'tunes' in parallel at the full 10
                    MSPS rate is very very wasteful........Think of the
                    channelizer as a really efficient way of performing
                    the tuning and decimation so that each output
                    channel of the channelizer is only 10 ksps and it is
                    properly 'centered' on the desired uplink channel. 
                    it will require more horsepower than a single tune
                    and single decimate 'string' but is less processing
                    intensive than 1000 of those strings running in
                    parallel.  <br>
                  </p>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>I didn't mention anything about other sampling
                    tricks (Nyquist zones, and potential spectral
                    inversion issues), or the benefits of oversampling
                    (dynamic range), integer vs float
                    representation.........maybe on another thread one
                    day.<br>
                  </p>
                  <p>So if you are going to roll your own
                    hardware..........first a lot of downconversion from
                    10 GHz (maybe an LNB to get to say L-Band or maybe
                    something to get to a 'ham band IF' at 432 or 144). 
                    Thats not enough.  You'll have to then downconvert
                    again to something that can be handled by the
                    selected ADC and whatever clock rate it is running
                    at (Nyquist rules apply here).  Filtering and
                    careful consideration of mixing products will
                    matter!  phase noise of the LOs will matter in all
                    that downconversion.......Also, gain gain gain...
                    will matter to make sure that you are fully
                    exercising the full range of the ADC and not just
                    toggling the the lowest couple of bits  (but not too
                    much gain.....clipping).  Then the complex baseband
                    conversion and decimation and on to demodulation,
                    demultiplexing, etc. etc.......A lot of the above is
                    what is handled 'under the hood' by most of the
                    commercial SDRs out there (i.e. UHD) so that the end
                    user can easily get up and running with the 'more
                    interesting' stuff downstream.........<br>
                  </p>
                  <p> </p>
                  <p>Hopefully this helped clarify the issue.....sorry
                    if it added more noise (my DSP-fu is weak).  Not
                    sure if I actually answered any questions.......<br>
                  </p>
                  <p><br>
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                  <p>-Zach, KJ4QLP<br>
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                    class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743moz-cite-prefix">On
                    1/25/2019 7:27 PM, Ron Economos via Ground-Station
                    wrote:<br>
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                    <p>Okay. De-multiplexing is a much better and less
                      confusing terminology. As you stated, decimation
                      is a DSP thing and channelizing the downlink
                      payload has nothing to do with DSP (all the DSP
                      has already been down in order to deliver payload
                      packets).<br>
                    </p>
                    <p>Ron W6RZ<br>
                    </p>
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                      1/25/19 16:17, Michelle Thompson wrote:<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">To me, decimation is what we do in
                        order to channelize in the payload. <br>
                        <br>
                        I don't think that's exactly what I'm being
                        asked about in the ground station receiver,
                        though. <br>
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                                      <div dir="ltr">-Michelle W5NYV<br>
                                        <br>
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                          class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743gmail_attr">On
                          Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:14 PM Ron Economos <<a
                            href="mailto:w6rz@comcast.net"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">w6rz@comcast.net</a>>
                          wrote:<br>
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                            <p>I'm not sure we are talking about the
                              same thing yet. So what exactly do you
                              expect to decimate and why?<br>
                            </p>
                            <p>Ron W6RZ<br>
                            </p>
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class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743gmail-m_8520444453280004698moz-cite-prefix">On
                              1/25/19 16:07, Michelle Thompson wrote:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">The beginning of wisdom
                                being the definition of terms and all,
                                it would be good to make sure we're all
                                talking about the same thing. <br>
                                <br>
                                So far, I've used LNBs and USRPs for
                                receive, with the LNB doing an IF at
                                618MHz (LNB-on-a-Stick) and giving
                                reasonable performance. <br>
                                <br>
                                Decimation to me is a DSP thing, or used
                                to reduce power consumption when you
                                don't need to sample as high as you
                                can. <br>
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                                              <div dir="ltr">-Michelle
                                                W5NYV<br>
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                                <div dir="ltr"
class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743gmail-m_8520444453280004698gmail_attr">On
                                  Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:52 PM Ron
                                  Economos via Ground-Station <a
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                                    <p>The standard IF for DVB-S2
                                      receivers is 950 to 2150 MHz.</p>
                                    <p>DB6NT was selling a
                                      down-converter from 10489-10500
                                      MHz to 1129-1140 MHz for P4A.</p>
                                    <p><a
class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743gmail-m_8520444453280004698gmail-m_-6643074664132559776moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://shop.kuhne-electronic.com/kuhne/en/shop/new/MKU+LNC+10+OSCAR+P4A/?card=1832"
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                                    <p>I'm not sure what decimation has
                                      to do with receiving DVB-S2. The
                                      entire 10 MHz signal needs to be
                                      demodulated. Individual baseband
                                      frames will be selected for
                                      processing, but I call that
                                      de-multiplexing.<br>
                                    </p>
                                    <p>Ron W6RZ<br>
                                    </p>
                                    <div
class="gmail-m_-1082876484739499743gmail-m_8520444453280004698gmail-m_-6643074664132559776moz-cite-prefix">On
                                      1/25/19 15:32, David Vieira via
                                      Ground-Station wrote:<br>
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                                        <div>Michelle - Thanks for
                                          posting.  I'll frame some of
                                          the questions.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Typical 10 GHz terrestrial
                                          contesting rigs are
                                          Heterodyne; that is a Mixer
                                          works with a Local Oscillator
                                          (LO) to take the RF down to an
                                          IF (Intermediate Frequency).</div>
                                        <div>For an SDR, that IF can be
                                          digitized by an Analog-Digital
                                          Converter.</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>The most popular IF for
                                          contesting/SSB rigs is 144
                                          MHz.  </div>
                                        <div>For a data BW of 10 MHz
                                          that may or may not be a fast
                                          enough IF carrier.  If we can
                                          digitize and recover the data,
                                          it would allow a lot of re-use
                                          of existing equipment.</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>I've heard
                                          suggestions/proposals up to
                                          the 1.2 GHz Ham band.</div>
                                        <div>In some sense, the IF
                                          carrier could be
                                          144/220/440/915/1200 MHz, or
                                          even any Non-Ham frequency in
                                          between.</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>There are a lot of proof of
                                          existence designs for a 10 GHz
                                          Mixed down to an IF; and lots
                                          of off the shelf ADC
                                          dev-boards.  (catch me off
                                          thread for details).</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Some questions I have
                                          are:  </div>
                                        <div>---from an FPGA side of the
                                          SDR, what data rate(s) can the
                                          FPGA absorb in to a
                                          decimator?  </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Must we decide upfront on a
                                          single frequency; or </div>
                                        <div>preferably allow
                                          flexibility in the RF front
                                          end design (ie, Mixer, PLL and
                                          Local Oscl hardware choices)
                                          by allowing a wide and
                                          programmable variety of ADC
                                          and decimation rates?</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>{This is where RF and
                                          Digital folks must communicate
                                          across walls.}  ;-)</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Comments welcome.</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>regards,</div>
                                        <div>David</div>
                                        <div>KI6CLA</div>
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                                          <div> On Friday, January 25,
                                            2019, 2:41:54 PM PST,
                                            Michelle Thompson via
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                                                <div dir="ltr">While we
                                                  are striving to enable
                                                  all sorts of wonderful
                                                  designs by putting
                                                  prototypes into GNU
                                                  Radio, a central goal
                                                  is to design our own
                                                  hardware.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  We've had a lot of
                                                  progress on the
                                                  protocol and algorithm
                                                  front (GSE, LDPC, some
                                                  of the polyphase). <br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Some fundamental
                                                  decisions about our
                                                  own hardware need to
                                                  be made.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  When we receive, we
                                                  expect to have to
                                                  decimate. This is
                                                  because we are
                                                  receiving at a
                                                  relatively high
                                                  frequency (10GHz).<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Our bandwidth is (up
                                                  to) 10MHz. For
                                                  DVB-S2/X, we fix our
                                                  sampling rate,
                                                  depending on what
                                                  bandwidth we want to
                                                  support. We have a lot
                                                  of freedom here.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  Picking the right
                                                  frequencies for the
                                                  receive chain is
                                                  therefore important.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  What are our options?
                                                  <br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  What options make the
                                                  best sense?<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                  I'd like to build and
                                                  test as soon as
                                                  possible, so let's get
                                                  some discussion going.<br>
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        Ahmet Inan<br>
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        Co-founder and CEO of aicodix GmbH<br>
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