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Successful Transmit on FM using LimeSDR and Pothos Software

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 ☠ 04/05/2017 at 17:030 Comments

At last I seem to be getting somewhere with the LimeSDR transceiver. Yesterday I started using Pothos to create an FM radio and today I was able to re-transmit one of my local radio stations to another frequency just before my local telecoms regulator discovered what I was doing.

This is an important step towards producing a proper 4G signal repeater - there's no point in diving in right at the deep end so a simple transmit is a good step forwards.

The Pothos file for this project is here on this Hackaday page under the 'Files' section.

Please could someone tell me why I was getting double transmission either side of the selected frequency? This can be seen on the video below:

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