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Updates on using an RTL-SDR for GPS on a High Powered Rocket
Back in April we posted about Philip Hahn and Paul Breed’s experiments to use an RTL-SDR for GPS logging on their high powered small rockets. As GPS is owned by the US military, a standard GPS module...
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Decoding a Garage Door Opener with an RTL-SDR
After listening to dock workers with his RTL-SDR for a few days, RTL-SDR.com reader Eoin decided that he wanted to try a more practical experiment. He decided to see if he could reverse engineering the...
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A Guide to Listening to CB Radio with an RTL-SDR Dongle
In the June edition of The Spectrum Monitor, SDR enthusiast and ham Mario Filippi N2HUN published an article titled “Your New CB ‘Good Buddy’, the SDR Dongle”. While the CB radio heyday is well and...
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IBM’s Horizon Decentralized Autonomous Edge Compute using RTL-SDR
IBM’s “Horizon” is an Internet of Things (IoT) networking technology based on decentralized peer to peer technologies that are already used in successful apps like BitCoin and BitTorrent. It works by...
View ArticleUsing the Airspy as a Network Analyzer for Characterizing Antennas
Over on YouTube user Mile Kokotov has uploaded a very nice tutorial video that shows how the Airspy can be used as a low cost scalar network analzyer from between 0.1 – 1800 MHz. A network analyser...
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Cheating at Pokémon Go with a HackRF and GPS Spoofing
“Pokémon Go” is the latest in smartphone augmented reality gaming crazes. You may have already heard about the game on the news, or seen kids playing it in your neighborhood. To play, players must walk...
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rx_tools: RTL-SDR Command Line Tools (rtl_power, rtl_fm, rtl_sdr) Now...
Developer R. X. Seger has recently released rx_tools which provides SDR independent ports for the popular command line RTL-SDR tools rtl_power, rtl_fm and rtl_sdr. This means that these tools can now...
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Kukuruku: A new SDR client that supports RTL-SDR
A new general purpose SDR software package called “Kukuruku” has recently been released. It appears to be a Linux only based client which is based on GNURadio. The authors write that they have several...
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Building an S-Band Antenna for the HackRF
Mario Filippi, a regular contributor to our blog and to the SDR community recently wrote in with an article showing how he built an S-Band (2 – 4 GHz) antenna for use with the HackRF. Of course the...
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ADS-B Traffic Analytics with Valo and an RTL-SDR
Valo is a software service for real time big data streaming analytics of data from many sensors. On their website they explain their service as follows. Valo is a single platform for streaming (real...
View ArticleGSM Sniffing: A Full YouTube Tutorial
Over on YouTube user Crazy Danish Hacker has been working on uploading an entire series on GSM Sniffing with an RTL-SDR. His series is explained in a slow and clear presenting style, and it starts at...
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Radio-Sky Spectrograph now supports the SDRPlay
Radio-Sky Spectrograph is a radio astronomy software program that integrates data over long periods of time and displays it as a waterfall. It is described by the author: Radio-Sky Spectrograph...
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New Outernet Products For Sale: E4000 RTL-SDR, L-Band Patch Antenna, L-Band LNA
Outernet is a new satellite service that aims to be a free “library in the sky”. They continuously broadcast services such as news, weather, videos and other files from satellites. Their aim is to...
View ArticleAn AIS Decoder for MATLAB and the RTL-SDR
RTL-SDR.com reader Mike wrote in to us today to let us know that he has released his AIS decoder for MATLAB and the RTL-SDR. MATLAB is a technical computing language used by many scientists and...
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Review: Outernet LNA and Patch Antenna
Recently we posted new that Outernet had released their 1.5 GHz LNA, Patch Antenna and E4000 Elonics RTL-SDR + E4000/LNA Bundle. When used together, the products can be used to receive the Outernet...
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A New LabVIEW interface for RTL-SDR Dongles
Today LabVIEW and RTL-SDR user Albert Lederer wrote in to let us know that he’s created a new LabVIEW interface for the RTL-SDR. LabVIEW is a visual programming language which is used commonly by...
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Receiving GOES LRIT Full Disk Images of the Earth and EMWIN Weather Data with...
Over on Reddit user devnulling has made a post showing how he was able to use his Airspy SDR to download full disk satellite images of the earth from the GOES satellite. In a separate imgur post he...
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Modifying the Outernet LNA for Iridium Reception
A few days ago we posted a review on the Outernet LNA which can can be used to help receive their new L-band service signal. Their LNA uses a filter which restricts the frequency range from 1525 – 1559...
View ArticleTalk: Decoding Data from Iridium Satellites
At this year’s hacker themed Eleventh Hope conference, Stefan “Sec” Zehl and Schneider gave a talk which discusses their latest work on decoding data from Iridium satellites using SDR’s. Iridium is a...
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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving and Decoding Data from the Outernet
Outernet is a relatively new satellite service which aims to be a “library in the sky”. Essentially their service is going to be constantly transmitting files and data like news and weather updates...
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