Some components of the world nonetheless have ample 2G protection; for these of in North America, 2G is lengthy gone and 3G has both pale into nightfall or starting its sundown. The legendary [dosdude1] reveals us it needn’t be so, nonetheless: Constructing a Customized 2G GSM Mobile Base Station isn’t out of attain, in case you are prepared to pay for it. His newest movies present us how.
Earlier than you begin worrying concerning the FCC or its equivalents, the ability right here is low sufficient to not penetrate [dosdude]’s partitions, however technically this does rely in flying below the radar. The important thing element is a Nuand BladeRF x40 full-duplex Software program Outlined Radio, which is a stunning little bit of open-source {hardware}, however not precisely low cost. Except for that, all you want is a half-decent PC (it at the least wants USB-3.0 to speak with the SDR, the “YateBTS” software program (which [dosdude1] guarantees to supply a setup information for in a subsequent video) and a sim card reader. Plus some outdated telephones, in fact, which is somewhat the entire level of this train.
The 2G sundown, particularly when adopted by 3G, worn out complete generations of handhelds — units with distinctive industrial design and forgotten web protocols which might be price remembering and retaining alive. By the tip of the video, he has his personal little community, with the telephones capable of name and textual content each other on the numbers he arrange, and even (slowly) entry the web via the miniPC’s community connection.
Not like many of the hacks we’ve featured from [dosdude1], you received’t even want a soldering iron, by no means thoughts a reflow oven for BGA.
