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I was really excited about this, but as an average home assistant user couldn't really see an application, lol.

Which phones still have FM radios?

Service monitor?

Why 4ghz?

Yeah, reading stuff like:

"BRINGUP, from a cold radio: what MediaTek's ROM patch does at download (XO, pin mux, the CONN AFE calibration pulse per band, the A-die TOP init by chip ID, pads and CONN switch, the A-dies' eFuse trims); the UMAC pool layout; the common and per-band PHY initialisation; on each A-die the RF init tables, the resistor calibration and the RC filter calibration; the FEM outputs and the crystal trim."

That's not even some other language poorly translated to English, that's just a bunch of words.

Between stuff like this and math "proofs" that aren't readable either I'm really challenged to see the benefit here.

What I get out of this is that one could, if you had the documentation, write a more generalized SDR application for this hardware than the Wifi7 application. That an LLM model can provoke this behavior seems as a good existence proof perhaps?

If someone wants to set up some hardware in a harness and then spend their tokens reverse engineering it, I'm thankful for the publication.

A year ago it was different. I looked at a lot of these vibe-RE projects and a lot of them wouldn't even do what they claimed. Now if someone points a frontier model at some code and lets it consume tokens for a few days, the output is often valuable as a starting point for other projects.

Try using GPT to write software like this, I don't think just anyone could do it unless they know the problem domain well. Understanding something is not something any AI can replace (yet).

Claude or not: It's a huge breakthrough for ham radio and signal analysis.

We now can programm more manual tuned stuff to turn this into a full 13cm and 5cm radio as it was proven to work.

Before the esp-sdr hack and this one both bands were quite difficult and pricey to reach.

Holy cow... I've got to limit my projects, so I don't repeat history where I kept finding radio shack bags full of parts for ideas. But you can get 3 of those, with external antennas for less than $60 through amazon. I put it in my wish list instead of buying them now. I've got a data diode to finish first.

Sideband on 13 CM sounds like an amazing thing to pull off.

I'd assume top notch if it's Wi-Fi certified. And basically all Mediatek modems are.

You cannot sell them with the tag if it wasn't connected to standardized certification test system at least once.

Yeah, mine is arriving tomorrow, because I totally needed another unused SDR platform.

It's RX-only.

At the moment I have 5x RTL-SDR dongles streaming into a box on different bands (137, 433, 912, 978, and 1090 MHz). They pick up all kinds of things, from local weather stations to the water meter for my condo to ADS-B/UAT transmissions from local aircraft. I even see the tire pressure monitor signals from cars that drive by (some of you guys need to add air!).

Mostly it's just fun. I like peeking at all the ambient transmissions in the area.

A while back I was more deeply involved in the SDR space and even reverse-engineered some pager signals. At least a few years ago, pagers were still widely used in hospitals (totally in plaintext, by the way).

It is cool to do. But there are professional uses for it, particularly like finding interference or noise. You can ask things like: "How crowded is my 2.4 GHz spectrum?"

The RTL SDR is the gateway drug into SDR's. The bandwidth is limited, so don't expect to be capturing HDTV Streams. But it's certainly possible to listen to AM/FM, Ham Bands, VHF/UHF signals, etc.

If you don't want to buy an RTL-SDR, you can search KiwiSDR which is a streaming SDR for frequencies under 30MHz. You can also connect to KiwiSDR's worldwide.

Then if you get the itch, you can go get your a HackRF, a ham license, or whatever else scratches it.

I've used it to identify transmissions in my neighborhood in the public (ISM) band, listen to various radio broadcasts outside the normal AM/FM, and best of all, track all the planes in my area (ADS-B).

Satdump group uses them receiving all kind of weather satellites. They are mastering S-/X-Band stuff for ages already.

Ham radio operators looking forward using them for 13cm and 5cm band stuff.

More like "turn a locked-down single-purpose SDR into a general-purpose SDR"

Can you order them from amazon.com? I've ordered stuff from amazon.co.jp and amazon.de before and although it doesn't get there in two days, it does show up eventually.

> Am I understanding that this is doing something the chipset wasn’t designed to do?

Every WiFi modem has a testmode. It's required to verify the TX/RX chain during manufacturing and for compliance testing.

Seemingly you can read out the entire spectrum at full rate.

mega samples per second. IOW: sample rate.

The significance is that most off the shelf SDR platforms have much lower specs. Almost all of them use the same Analog Devices transceiver chip.

Msps = Mega samples per second