Our environment is swamped with radio signals from a huge range of local, commercial, infrastructural and personal devices. This noise goes on unnoticed day and night but increasingly of interest as our dependence on mobile communications, IOT and remote control systems stack up around us.
SPC has been hosting regular SDRX workshops at Uniform rooms in OPS. We are making good development progress toward launch of ‘software defined radio power’ monitoring system to help visualise where different frequencies are being used.
The many months of ad-hock design and experimentation with low cost equipment are being distilled into a working recipe for building distributed monitoring networks that publish data for the public record. Great RTL resources exist to support this research which we are keen to contribute to.
Use of the entire RF spectrum is governed by Ofcom in the UK and each country has it’s own regulatory framework, to organise use of the electromagnetic spectrum for commercial and social purposes.
Back in 2006 YT travelled to Riga, Latvia for the Waves conference where Julian Priest installed a 5m Whiteboard ‘The Political Spectrum‘ presenting a hybrid mapping of worldwide radio allocations and social interactions of visitors to the show.
