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Amateur Pulsar Observations with an RTL-SDR
Back in September 2015 we made a posted that discussed how some amateur radio astronomers have been using RTL-SDR’s for detecting pulsars. A pulsar is a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of...
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A New Meteor M LRPT Image Decoder for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi
Thanks to twitter user @LinuxSocist for submitting a link to this new Meteor M weather satellite LRPT decoder called ‘meteor_decoder’ which can be run on both Linux and Windows. Pre-built binary of the...
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Using a HackRF as a Beacon Transmitter on a Drone for Antenna Calibration
Over on his Twitter feed Sylvain Azarian (@sylvain_azarian / F4GKR) has been tweeting about his new antenna calibration method which involves the use of a HackRF SDR and Raspberry Pi mounted on a...
View ArticleA Tutorial on Using a Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless for ADS-B Flight Tracking
Allaboutcircuits.com contributing writer Mark Hughes has recently posted a tutorial that shows how to use an RTL-SDR dongle with a Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless to track aircraft with ADS-B. As a bonus he...
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Aerial TV: Android RTL-SDR DVB-T Decoder Officially Released
Last month we posted about Aerial TV, a new Android based DVB-T decoder that works with RTL-SDR dongles. Back then the app was still in beta testing and had a few operational bugs. Now the Aerial TV...
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Contributing ADS-B Data to RadarBox with an RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi
RadarBox.com is an ADS-B aggregator which is very similar to other aggregators like FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com. These services use ADS-B data provided from volunteers all around the world to...
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Transmitting Analog TV Broadcasts with a HackRF
Over on the user submitted hackaday.io community, user marble has shared his work about using a HackRF to transmit PAL analog colored TV images with his rad1o (the rad1o is a slight variation of the...
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A Screenshot based Meteor Scatter Detector for HDSDR
Over on our forums Andy (M0CYP) has posted about his new meteor scatter detection program which works with HDSDR and any supported SDR like an RTL-SDR. It works in an interesting way, as instead of...
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QIRX SDR: A New MultiMode RTL-SDR Program with Built-In DAB+ Decoder
Recently Clem from softsyst.com wrote in and let us know about their new SDR software called ‘QIRX SDR’. This is a multimode receiver currently capable of receiving AM/NFM/WFM and also DAB Plus. It...
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XRIT Decoder for GOES Satellites: Supports Airspy R2/Mini and SDRplay RSP2
Over on his blog USA-Satcom has released his XRIT (LRIT/HRIT) decoder for GOES satellites. The software requires a licence and costs $100 USD. GOES-13 (East), GOES-15 (West) and the new GOES-16 are...
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DAB/DAB+ Decoder Software “Welle.io” Now Available on Android
Back in March of this year we posted about “Welle.io”, a DAB/DAB+ decoder that supports the RTL-SDR and other SDRs like the Airspy. It was available for Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi 2/3. Albrecht...
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Detecting Pulsars with a Circularly Polarized Yagi and an RTL-SDR
Steve Olney VK2XV is the creator and administrator of the Neutron Star Group website which collects a listing of confirmed amateur attempts at pulsar detection, many of which have been made with a...
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Signal Reverse Engineering Tool DSpectrum Upgraded to DSpectrumGUI
DSpectrum is a reverse engineering tool that aims to make it trivial to demodulate digital RF transmissions. It is built on top of the Inspectrum tool which makes it easy to visualize and manually turn...
View ArticleYouTube Video: A Tutorial on Receiving and Decoding NOAA and METEOR Satellites
Back in March we posted about The Thought Emporium’s YouTube video that explained weather satellites and demonstrated that images could be downloaded from them using an SDR like a HackRF or RTL-SDR....
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A Tour of Satellites in the QB50 Experiment
Over the last two weeks the QB50 experiment was launched from the International Space Station (ISS). The experiment consists of 36 cubesats built by various universities around the world, with the main...
View ArticleTracking Trains: Monitoring Railroad ATCS Control Signals with an RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel GusGorman402 has uploaded a tutorial which shows how he monitors ATCS (Advanced Train Control System) signals from trains. ATCS signals are found in the USA, and is used for...
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The Outernet Dreamcatcher: A Linux Based ARM PC with Built in RTL-SDR
Recently Outernet released their new ‘Dreamcatcher’ hardware which is an RTL-SDR + L-band LNA & filter + computing board all on the same PCB. The Dreamcatcher costs $99 USD and can be bought...
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PagerMon: A browser based app for displaying pager messages from multimon-ng
Thank you to Dave for submitting information about his new pager message display software called PagerMon. PagerMon is a web browser based tool for displaying POCSAG pager messages decoded by...
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Precisely Synchronizing Multiple HackRFs
Recently Marco Bartolucci & José A. del Peral-Rosado wrote in and wanted to let us know about their work in creating multiple precisely synchronized HackRF’s. They plan to use the synchronized...
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Decoding and Listening to HD Radio (NRSC-5) with an RTL-SDR
HD Radio is a high definition terrestrial digital broadcast signal that is only used in North America. It is easily recognized by the two rectangular blocks on either side of a broadcast FM station...
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