Hak5 at Shmoocon 2017: Shock Collar Radio Roulette, GNU Radio, Sniffing IR...
Over on YouTube the popular Hak5 channel has uploaded a video with several SDR related topics mentioned during Shmoocon 2017 conference. One fun event talked about in the video was the Shmoocon...
View ArticleCamp++ YouTube Talk: GSM Signal Sniffing for Everyone with GR-GSM and Multi-RTL
Over on YouTube the channel Budapest Hackerspace has recently uploaded a talk by Piotr Krysik which was given during the August 2016 Camp++ 0x7e0 information security conference. The talk is titled:...
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Removing that Center Frequency DC Spike in Gnuradio the Easy Way
Recently RTL-SDR.com reader ghostop14 wrote in to us and wanted to share his GNU Radio block and tutorial that shows how to get rid of the DC spike in GNU Radio. The DC spike is the annoying spike in...
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RTL-SDR Waterfall on a C.H.I.P
The C.H.I.P is a $9 USD single board computer which is similar to a Raspberry Pi. It is powerful enough to run the RTL-SDR, and in fact the Outernet project use the C.H.I.P together with our V3 dongles...
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Reverse Engineering Honeywell 345 MHz Home Automation Sensors with an RTL-SDR
OpenHAB is an open source home automation software program which is designed to interface and manage all the various sensors and systems in an automated house. One problem however, is that many...
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First Steps Towards Decoding HD Radio
Programmer Phil Burr wrote in and wanted to share his newest code which is a partial implementation (no audio) of the iBiquity IBOC HD Radio standard. HD Radio is a proprietary broadcast radio protocol...
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Simple NOAA/Meteor Weather Satellite Antenna: A 137 MHz V-Dipole
Over on his blog Adam 9A4QV (seller of various RTL-SDR related goods including the LNA4ALL) has just made a post detailing a build of a high performance super simple NOAA/Meteor M2 weather satellite...
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re-DECTed: An RTL-SDR DECT Decoder
Over on GitHub programmer ‘znuh’ has uploaded a new RTL-SDR compatible GNURadio based tool for DECT decoding. DECT is an acronym for ‘Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications’, and is the wireless...
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—–Hz: A New STD-C Inmarsat Decoder
UPDATE: Unfortunately we have been informed that the code base of this software was illegally decompiled and reused in an almost unchanged way from an already available closed source decoder. This...
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Real-Time decoding of Meteor-M2 on Linux
Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Mark wrote in and wanted to share his modified version of otti-soft’s GNU Radio flowgraph for decoding Meteor-M2 weather satellite images on Linux. The modified version...
View ArticleT——o SDR: A MultiMode SDR Receiver Program
Recently a reader of RTL-SDR.com wrote in and submitted a link to T——–o SDR, which is an RTL-SDR compatible multimode SDR decoder program for Windows. (The website is in Italian but is easily...
View ArticleWintelive YouTube Demo
Over on YouTube use radiosification has uploaded a video showing the Windows TETRA decoder ‘wintelive’ in action. Wintelive is a Windows port of the popular RTL-SDR compatible Linux based ‘telive’...
View ArticleHackRF Sweep Spectrum Analyzer for Windows
A few weeks ago the HackRF drivers and firmware were updated and one new feature added was hackrf_sweep. This new feature allows us to scan across the spectrum at up to 8 GHz per second, which means...
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Aerial TV: An Android DVB-T Decoder for the RTL-SDR
On the Google Play store a new RTL-SDR compatible app called ‘Aerial TV’ has been released (in beta) by Martin Marinov. Aerial TV allows you to watch DVB-T HD TV on your android device, with an RTL-SDR...
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Tekmanoid STD-C Decoder Updated: New Paid LES Decoder + EGC Visualization
The Tekmanoid EGC STD-C decoder was recently updated and a new commercial paid version was released. The paid version now supports the decoding of LES STD-C messages. Previously the only other decoder...
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UnoSDR: A New Multi-Mode RTL-SDR Compatible Receiver Program
Programmer Vi Vitaliy recently wrote into us and wanted to share his new ‘UnoSDR’ software defined radio receiver software for Windows. This is a general purpose multi-mode receiver which is compatible...
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welle.io: A New RTL-SDR & Airspy DAB/DAB+ Decoder Available for Windows/Linux
Thanks to Albrecht Lohofener for submitting to us his new software package called ‘welle.io’ which is a free DAB and DAB+ decoder and player that supports the RTL-SDR (directly or also via rtl_tcp) and...
View ArticleYouTube Talk: Hunting Rogue WiFi Devices using the HackRF SDR
Over on YouTube a video titled “Hunting Rogue WiFi Devices using the HackRF SDR” has been uploaded. The talk is given by Mike Davis at the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cape Town. The...
View ArticleYouTube Videos: NOAA Satellite Tutorial and Building a Radio Telescope
Over on the Thought Emporium YouTube channel the team have uploaded two videos that may be of interest to radio hobbyists. The first video shows a nice overview about receiving NOAA weather satellite...
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New Outernet Hardware “Dreamcatcher”: An RTL-SDR with Embedded Computing...
Over on the Outernet forums Outernet CEO Syed has just released pictures of the latest upcoming Outernet receiver called “Dreamcatcher”. The new receiver is an RTL-SDR, LNA, filter, and embedded Linux...
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