Initial mounting, the rear PCB has the SMT
parts (a little attention in soldering) SoftRock page (page always under construction)
In this page are enclosed informations about SoftRock V. 6.0 that I assembled and now is under test in my shack
The Soft Rock is a low cost SDR receiver by Tony Parks (KB9YIG) that implements a simple Quadrature Sampling Detector
(QSD, see A Software Defined Radio for the Masses from QEX Jul/Aug 2002") when connected to a computer sound card and software such as PowerSDR.
These are pictures of version 6.0 I mounted in the 2006 June: (click to enlarge the images)
Initial mounting, the rear PCB has the SMT
parts (a little attention in soldering)
Input filter is a two toroid core band-pass , the third toroid is the mixer transformer
Final result: the three plugs are for : RF input, output to sound card, and power supply.
A basic link : KD5TFD webpage about Soft Rock