Ok, first of all congratulation for this project...

Ok, I understood that it wouldnīt work as USRP. 
But would it allow you to tune (or listen - sory donīt know the tecnical term in english) an especific ARFCN and time slot ?


Hernani

> Hi Harald
>
> Thanks for clarifying this confusion. I bought a motorola C123 on ebay 
> with RS232 data cable. When I arrive I'll try this fantastic software.
> Thank you very much for your work, this world needs more people like 

> you
>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:32:31 +0100, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Oscar,

>>
>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:02:37AM +0100, Oscar Soriano Riera wrote:
>>
>>> Its posible use
>>> OsmocomBB on C123 for do task as a USRP ? or similar scanner ?

>>
>> No, I think you have some conceptual misunderstanding about radio
>> technology in general.
>>
>> In your subject you ask if OsmocomBB can work as USRP:

>> This is wrong, as OsmocomBB is a protocol stack and radio driver, and
>> the USRP
>> is hardware.  How can some software work as hardware?
>>
>> In the body of your mail you ask if the C123 can act as USRP:

>> No. The USRP is a wide-band software defined radio, and the 
>> Calypso/Iota/Rita
>> design implements a more traditional narrow-band zero-if transceiver
>> with a DSP

>> in the baseband.
>>
>> Nevertheless, you can use both hardware design to receive and 
>> transmit GSM
>> signals.  But this is very far from what you ask by "one device 

>> working like
>> the other"