Understand Radios
SDR Fundamentals
- Signals, spectra and bandwidth
- Modulation and noise
- Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- Hands-on with real signals
PRACTICAL WIRELESS ENGINEERING EDUCATIONLearn by doing.
Learn by doing.
Build Intuition First.
Hands-on wireless and SDR training for engineers. Practical skills from first principles to real systems — SDR, RF, signals, and cellular.
⌁Hands-on
Projects
Projects
▥Real-World
Systems
Systems
♟Built for
Engineers
Engineers
▤High-Quality
Content
Content
SDRSignalsRF SystemsCellularHands-OnReal Hardware
THE TAU WIRELESS LEARNING JOURNEY
From First Principles to Real-World Systems
Six hands-on courses that take you from the basics of radio signals to building and analyzing modern wireless systems.
Build Radios
Information · Bits · Symbols
- Turn information into bits
- Modulation (OOK, FSK, PSK)
- Build and test real transmitters
- See constellations in real time
Program Radios
Detect · Sync · Recover
- Python for signal processing
- GNU Radio flowgraphs
- Synchronization and framing
- Build a complete transceiver
Reverse Engineer Radios
Observe · Infer · Decode
- Analyze unknown signals
- Find structure: preambles, pilots
- Demodulate and decode
- Understand real-world protocols
Build Broadband Radios
OFDM · SC-FDE · Frames
- OFDM, SC-FDE and framing
- Pilots and synchronization
- Channel estimation and equalization
- Build and test an OTA OFDM radio
Understand Cellular Networks
LTE · 5G/NR · Systems
- Radio access and core network
- Resource blocks and scheduling
- 4G/LTE and 5G/NR fundamentals
- Make sense of real deployments
CTS — Capture the Signal
After C1–C5, the recipes disappear. Apply the complete toolbox to unknown signals and prove you can figure out how they communicate.
Explore CTS →Live, Hands-On Workshops
Join in-person and virtual workshops, including our hands-on GNU Radio OTA OFDM workshop using real SDR hardware.
View Upcoming Workshops →Why Tau Wireless?
- Learn by doing — real hardware, real signals
- Build intuition from first principles
- Practical skills used in SDR, RF, 4G/5G and Open RAN
- Clear, focused, engineer-friendly content
- Projects, code, and reproducible examples
Built by an Engineer Who Believes Understanding Comes From Doing
Tau Wireless was created by Fredrick Odero, an RF systems engineer with more than 15 years of experience across wireless systems, SDR, cellular networks and practical RF engineering.
The goal is not to memorize a stack of equations. It is to build enough intuition that you can look at a real radio system, reason about what is happening, measure it, and make it work.
That philosophy drives every Tau Wireless course: start from first principles, connect the concept to the complete radio system, and then put it on the air.
Read the Tau Wireless Story →6Core Courses
Hands-on, project based
Hands-on, project based
100+Sample Notebooks & Labs
GNU Radio, Python, RF
GNU Radio, Python, RF
5Pilot Students
Small cohorts for deeper learning
Small cohorts for deeper learning
1Mission
Learn by doing. Build Intuition First.
Learn by doing. Build Intuition First.