Hello,
I think it should not be difficult for a GSoC student to do what you are proposing... specially the receiver as the hardware can be very cheap and easy to obtain.
The problem could be with a transceiver...
I was looking at
http://blends.debian.org/hamradio/tasks/sdr
and it lists a whole range of SDR related packages
Is there any wiki about SDR on Debian?
Out of all the packages listed:
- do any provide a ready-to-run receiver, or do they all require the use
of additional scripts or programming? E.g. GNU Radio requires the user
to download one of several available flow graph samples
- do any provide a ready-to-run transceiver?
Furthermore, do you envisage it is possible to make a ready-to-run SDR
receiver or transciever using a Debian Hamradio Blend live image or if
not currently possible, would it be achievable for a GSoC student to
fill in some or all of the gaps to make this happen?