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LimeSDR Rigged up for Action

A project log for Cell Phone 4G LTE Repeater / Booster / Femtocell

An outside pole mounted aerial picks up 4G signals which are then filtered, amplified and re-transmitted through a second inside aerial.

capt-flatus-oflahertyCapt. Flatus O'Flaherty ☠ 08/22/2017 at 16:450 Comments

The amazingly flexible and useful LimeSDR is now rigged up with sliders and rotary pots, a TFT screen and bolt on Arduino Due, hiding underneath the green custom made PCB.

The Arduino communicates via the SPI bus through the FPGA using a special file to re-program the FPGA and enables the Lime to be turned from being a 4G repeater into a frequency hopping/sweeping signal generator within literally 5 seconds. I think I can even put 12 LED indicators on it which might look cool?

I need a signal generator to test my homegrown transceivers on band 13 which is what Verizon uses in more remote areas in the USA. 


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