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RFTap: A Bridge Between GNURadio and Wireshark
Recently a new Linux based tool called RFTap has been released. RFTap acts as a bridge between GNURadio flow graphs and Wireshark. GNU Radio is a visual based programming environment for digital signal...
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Natpos: New Linux SDR Software for the RTL-SDR
Natpos is a new Linux based SDR program similar in operation and features to other programs like GQRX, HDSDR and SDR#. At the moment Natpos only works with RTL-SDR receivers as it runs via the rtl_tcp...
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The Distributed Ground Station Network
Over on hackaday.io there is a project blog for the “Distributed Ground Station Network”. This is essentially an idea to build a large network of distributed RF receivers which automatically receive...
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Working towards an FPGA DSP Implementation with LabVIEW for the RTL-SDR
Back in August we posted how Albert Lederer had created a RTL-SDR interface for the LabVIEW visual programming language which could be run on a host PC. LabVIEW is a visual programming language which...
View ArticleComparing the RTL-SDR, FunCube PRO Plus and SDRplay on Moon Bounce/EME Reception
Moon Bounce or “Earth Moon Earth” (EME) is an amateur radio activity where people attempt to transmit a signal towards to the moon, and listen to the reflected signal. In some cases a separate...
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Testing the Outernet-In-A-Box Virtual Machine Decoder for Windows & Linux
Back in September we posted a tutorial that showed how to set up an Outernet receiver with a Raspberry Pi running their rxOS software and an RTL-SDR, LNA and patch antenna. Recently, Outernet have...
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Building your own Rogue GSM Basestation with a BladeRF
Over on his blog author Simone Margaritelli has added a tutorial that shows how to set up a bladeRF to act as a GSM basestation (cell tower). Having your own GSM basestation allows you to create your...
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TETRA Decoding on Windows with Telive
TETRA is a type of digital voice and trunked radio communications system that stands for “Terrestrial Trunked Radio”. It is used heavily in many parts of the world, except for the USA. Telive is a...
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The 20th Cyberspectrum Software Defined Radio Meetup
Every month SDR evangelist Balint Seeber hosts the Cyberspectrum Meetup in San Francisco, where many SDR fans come together to listen to various presentations. The 20th Cyberspectrum SDR meetup has now...
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Outernet rxOS Version 3 Released: Automatic Decompression, APRS, NOAA Weather...
Outernet is a new L-band satellite services which aims to be a “library in the sky”. Their satellite signal can be received from almost anywhere in the world, and they aim to constantly transmit data...
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Identifying Transmitters with CTCSS Fingerprinting
Oona Räisänen is a RF hacker and enthusiast who has in the past brought us posts about decoding burger pagers in restaurants, decoding wireless bus signs and FM-RDS with SDR’s like the RTL-SDR. This...
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Experimenting with Broadcast FM RDS (TMC, RT+) and SCA Audio
A typical broadcast FM station can sometimes contain “hidden” subcarriers embedded within the main signal. The subcarriers contain data or audio services. An example of a data subcarrier hidden within...
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Software for creating an Interactive RTL_POWER Visualization
RTL-SDR.com reader Dominic Chen recently wrote in to let us know about a new piece of software he’s created. The software is called d3-waterfall, and is an interactive web based waterfall display. It...
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SDRDue: New Software for Passive Radar with Two Coherent RTL-SDR Dongles
Dr. Daniel Michał Kamiński, author of two SDR# plugins has recently released a new passive radar program for the RTL-SDR called “SDRDue”. Passive radar is a technique that makes use of signals from...
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A Multi-Channel Coherent RTL-SDR Product: For Passive Radar, Direction...
Coherent-receiver.com is a company which is a customer of our RTL-SDR V3 dongle and they have been working on creating a multi-channel coherent receiver product based on the RTL-SDR. An RTL-SDR...
View ArticleWintelive: Tutorial and Updates to the Windows Telive TETRA Decoder...
Earlier this month we posted about “cURLy bOi”’s release of his Windows port of telive. Telive is a popular TETRA decoder created by SQ5BPF which until recently only ran on Linux systems. TETRA is a...
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Setting up a GOES Weather Satellite Antenna System
Many people with an RTL-SDR have had fun receiving NOAA and METEOR low earth orbit (LEO) weather satellite images. However, a step up in difficulty is to try and receive the geostationary orbit (GEO)...
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FlightAware Release their Pro Stick Plus: An ADS-B Optimized RTL-SDR with LNA...
Back in March of this year we posted about the release of the FlightAware “Pro Stick”. The Pro Stick is FlightAware’s ADS-B optimized RTL-SDR dongle. It uses a low noise figure LNA on the RF front end...
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GQRX-Ghostbox: Electronic Voice Phenomenon Paranormal Research Tool
With perfect Halloween timing, SDR enthusiast and ghost hunter Doug Haber has released his RTL-SDR compatible software called “gqrx-ghostbox”. This software supposedly turns your RTL-SDR into a...
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Creating a GOES Weather Satellite Demodulator
Last week we posted about Lucas Teske’s (@lucasteske) experience with setting up an antenna system that can receive the geostationary GOES weather satellites. He set up a dish antenna, feed, LNA and...
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