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It's neat, but practically speaking having a transmit only device isn't useful for GSM. Having to use filtering on the output is also a major pain.

It is perhaps more interesting for use as a data exfiltration technique. Simple devices, usually used without analysis, can punch out a signal which is easily decoded, with a simple (and seemingly accidental) antenna.



Wouldn’t you be able to use an RTL-SDR for the receive part, and thus, have a full-duplex SDR?


Theoretically yes, but a HackRF One is US$300 and you will save an enormous amount of time. https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/


HackRF actually can’t be used with GSM as it’s half-duplex only and GSM requires full-duplex.




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