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Offline sairfan1Topic starter

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Debugging RF devices
« on: July 25, 2019, 04:56:03 pm »
In past i worked on some wired communication protocols like ISP, I2C and UART and I found oscilloscope very useful to debug the communication.

Now I am going to work on some RF based wireless modules like NRF-24, CC1101 and LORA (and some other RF modules)before getting started i want to ensure i have enough tools to debug the application, while learning around i understand that professional tools are very expensive.

I wish to know some tools made for hobbyist that can help me to know if RF signal was transmitted on required frequency, it would be even great if we can know what data was transmitted just like we do on oscilloscope.

Please suggest me what else may help in this scenario. I can spend $500 to $1000 for this.

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Offline MasterT

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Re: Debugging RF devices
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2019, 10:01:09 pm »
https://www.amazon.ca/digital-Stick-RTL-SDR-Receiver-RTL2832U/dp/B00CM3LNMM/ref=sr_1_2
Helps roughly estimate power, channel, activity in the time over waterfall diagram.
 


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