The Hydra project is a collaborative effort between N1GP and NO1D in an attempt to produce a 'n' port CW/RTTY Skimmer platform based on RTL SDR technology.
The work is heavily leveraged from existing projects such as cuSDR and rtl-sdr development efforts.
Changes and focus has been optimizing and supporting small embedded platforms such as the Odroid C1/U3/XU3, Nvidia TK1 and RaspberryPI which may or may not be viable platforms to execute on.
The git repo allows us to share code changes easily using GIT and utilize GitHub to track issues and changes. In the end, Rick will push changes made here up stream to main projects librtlhpsdr and cusdr should they be deemed suitible for mainstream users.
-- Optimizing code bases to run fast/efficiently on ARM based platforms
-- Providing reliable support for up to 8 RTL dongles
-- Create tools useful for calibration of RTL dongles for accurate CW Skimmer spot
reporting in the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN).
-- Develop unique hardware which includes front end filters, attenuator, mixer,
multiport coupler, amplifiers to ease integration with low cost RTLSDR dongles.
-- Unique hardware packaging
-- Hydra Top Level
-- Software Software Top Level
-- librtlsdr RTL Libraries and tools
-- cusdrk cuSDR GUI Application
-- plotter Skimmer Plotter, QRZ/RBN tools
-- Hardware Hardware Top Level
-- Schematic Schematic data in Eagle format
-- Boards ditto
-- BOM BOM files
-- Mechanicals Hardware Case information
-- Documentation
-- Specifications
-- Test Plans
-- Measurement Data
-- Testing
-- Scripts and Test Plans