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argilo / gr-nrsc5

A GNU Radio implementation of HD Radio (NRSC-5)
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Is it possible to use it in a comunity radio? #7

Closed hydrosIII closed 6 years ago

hydrosIII commented 6 years ago

Hi, Im currently implementing a small community radio in Mexico. Internet radio is easy to make it work, but your project seems that it makes possible for making cheap encoder. Here in Mexico we use the IBOC format for digital radio. Is it possible to use this project to make a transmitter and attach it to the FM band?

argilo commented 6 years ago

@hydrosIII I'm not aware of anyone who has used gr-nrsc5 for that purpose, but gr-nrsc5 is capable of generating an IBOC signal (in the HD Radio / NRSC-5 format) which could be used on the FM band. Please note that I don't offer any support for this project, so if adaptations are necessary you'd have to make them yourself. Also, some parts of the NRSC-5 standard are encumbered by patents, so there may be legal implications to using gr-nrsc5.

hydrosIII commented 6 years ago

So, it is more a legal issue than a technical one? Right. Thanks. ;)

argilo commented 6 years ago

Yes, that's correct.