Airspy R2

R2

Airspy R2 sets a new level of performance in the reception of the VHF and UHF bands thanks to its low-IF architecture, high quality ADC and state of the art DSP.

The coverage can be extended to the HF bands via the SpyVerter up-converter companion.
The Airspy R2, like its predecessor is 100% compatible with all the existing software including the de facto scanning standard SDR#, but also a number of popular software defined radio applications such as SDR-Radio, HDSDR, GQRX and GNU Radio.

•     VHF/UHF/SHF Radio Monitoring
•     Coherent Receiver Array
•     Direction Finding
•     Passive Radar
•     ADS-B, ATC
•     Radio Astronomy
•     Satellite IF
•     Telemetry Radio Receiver
•     Wide Band Scanner
•     Education
•     Ham Radio, etc.

Supported platforms

•     Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (For Windows XP, please contact us)
•     Linux
•     *BSD
•     OSX

Technical specifications

•   Continuous 24 -1800 MHz native RX range, down to DC with the SpyVerter option
•   3.5 dB NF between 42 and 1002 MHz
•   Maximum RF input of +10 dBm
•   Tracking RF filters
•   35dBm IIP3 RF front end
•   12bit ADC @ 20 MSPS (10.4 ENOB, 70dB SNR, 95dB SFDR)
•   10MSPS IQ output
•   Experimental 2.5MSPS IQ output for low power devices (Raspberry Pi, Odroid, etc.)
•   Up to 80 MSPS when using custom firmware
•   Cortex M4F @ up to 204MHz with Multi Core support (dual M0)
•   0.5 ppm high precision, low phase noise clock
•   1 RTC clock (for packet time-stamping)
•   External clock input (10 MHz to 100 MHz via MCX connector) ? Ideal for phase coherent radios
•  10 MHz panoramic spectrum view with up to 9MHz alias/image free
•   IQ or Real, 16bit fixed or 32bit float output streams
•   No IQ imbalance, DC offset or 1/F noise at the center of the spectrum that plagues all the other SDRs
•   Extension ports: 16 x SGPIO
•   1 x RF Input (SMA connector, up to 30kV ESD protection)
•   1 x RF Output (Loopthrough, U-FL, 15kV ESD protection)
•   2 x High Speed ADC inputs (up to 80 MSPS, U-FL, DC coupled, 15kV ESD protection)
•   4.5v software switched Bias-Tee to power LNA?s and up/down-converters
•   8 x programmable high speed gpio?s up to 100MHz
•   3 x programmable synchronized clock outputs up to 160MHz
•   1 x core CPU clock output
•   1 x reset pin
•   2 x regulated +5.0 and +3.3v pins
•   1 x JTAG header
•  No drivers required! 100% Plug-and-play on Windows Vista, Seven, 8, 8.1 and 10
•  Operating temperature: -10°C to 40°C

Minimum hardware requirements

•     3rd gen Intel i3 2.4 GHz CPU or equivalent
•     2GB of RAM (to run your own OS, airspy barely needs 1MB of memory)
•     High speed USB 2.0 controller

Developer API

•     Open source multi-platform libairspy and airspy host tools at github
•     Open source airspy firmware at github
•     Linux kernel SDR API (by Antti Palosaari) at github