I inherited a HackRF One from a friend and this thread reminded me about it. Does anyone have any cool projects they recommend doing just to gain some experience in SDR / have fun?
There were a few things in GNU radio which have changed since then (different block names) but with a bit of googling you can figure out how to work around it.
Unfortunately for me, SDR is too much like $dayjob so I lost interest. I already spend 8 hours a day at a computer I cannot be convinced to spend more time at a computer doing SDR as I would much rather being doing stuff outside.
For ham radio I can see it, but SDR stuff is fundamentally programming and for me the majority of time was doing programming like tasks and not actually doing stuff with the finished code.
Ham radio on the other hand is like an appliance and so there isn’t any programming necessary.
It's very straight forward, depending on your desired level of difficulty:
Do it first using blocks in gnuradio, then redo it with blocks you write yourself.
After that do the same thing, but with digital psk modulation, it has the added difficulty of requiring channel estimation/ equalization.
