Not to diminish the very cool work of the author - I'd bet you $1,000,000 you could understand this work with 3 years of dedicated study or 10 years of passionate part-time study.
Software Defined Radio is a pretty steep learning curve. You need to know about RF, digital signal processing, math, software and computers all at the same time.
On the GNU Radio Matrix server, we see Masters and Ph.D students have a difficult time with at least one of the above all the time.
The most successful SDR hackers usually have a ham radio background.
