Homemade Radio?

[SkyHog]

Anyone happen to have a method of creating a really cheap, easy home-made radio? I want to create a RACEceiver radio that I can panel mount in my racecar, and there's no good options premade (I hate using the RACEceiver puck dealie that everyone uses, as I always wind up dropping it to an unreachable place when getting in my car).

The frequency range is a bit odd, and the channels are only .0125MHz apart.

 

[nauga]

Anyone happen to have a method of creating a really cheap, easy home-made radio?

http://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 and a Raspberry Pi.

edit: Oops, I see you said 'easy.' Maybe not so much. Fun, tho.

Nauga,
and his TDRS

 

[flyingron]

Unless your track(s) always use the same frequency, it's going to be daunting to build the UI for the thing. Of course, there are other scanners out there that will likely work OK was well. I used to use my RadioSnack Pro43 and my old Dave Clarks and an adapter when working at the track (I was an official not a driver). Of course, for most of the time, I was inside the tower in the air conditioning and just had a handheld in front of me (no noise problem there).

 

[wsuffa]

Cheap scanner is your best option.

As Nauga notes, if you've got a computer in that vee-hickle, you can get a DVB dongle and use SDR# to tune it.

(Sitting here enjoying ADS-B and local P25 audio via DVB dongles).

 

[denverpilot]

Looks like it's just a UHF FM receiver. Possibly narrowband. I didn't dig that far. Piles of options in scanners that are mountable. Nothing odd about the channelization at all. Not sure why you think so. Aviation channelization is a huge fat pig of spectrum waste for historical reasons. compared to typical two-way bandwidths these days.

 

[Steve Foley]

Have you looked at The Baofeng UV5R?

http://www.amazon.com/Baofeng-UV5R-136-174-400-480-Dual-Band/dp/B007H4VT7A