A Guide to Using SDR-Console V3 for Accessing and Creating Remote Servers
Jon Hudson, head of marketing at SDRplay has recently released a helpful tutorial that shows how to access remote servers in SDR-Console V3, and also how to set up your own server too. As you may...
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Receiving WSPR with an RTL-SDR V3 and with Automatic Band Changing
RTL-SDR V3 + Raspberry Pi WSPR Receiver WSPR (pronounced "Whisper") is short for Weak Signal Propagation Reporting, and is a HF ham mode typically run on very low power levels such as 1W. The data from...
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SDR# TETRA Plugin Updated: No longer requires MSYS2
Last week we posted about the release of a new TETRA decoder plugin for SDR#. The plugin made setting up a TETRA decoder significantly easier compared to previous methods, but it still required the...
View ArticleViewing Drone Signals with HackRF being used as a Wideband Spectrum Analyzer
Over on his YouTube channel user Andy Clarke has uploaded a video where he demonstrates his HackRF being used as a wideband spectrum analyzer with the HackRF Spectrum Analyzer software. About a year...
View ArticleReal Time Passive Radar Running Native on the ADALM-PLUTO ARM CPU
The ADALM-Pluto (aka PlutoSDR) is a US$149 TX/RX capable SDR that we have posted about several times in the past. It has a tuning range from 70 MHz to 6000 MHz with a bandwidth of up to 56 MHz (with...
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Wired Article about Radiosonde (Weather Balloon) Hunting
Wired.com has recently run a short article about Roland F5ZV's hobby of radiosonde hunting. A radiosonde is a small box containing electronic sensors that measure things like wind, temperature,...
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Radio For Everyone: Testing the RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA,...
Akos, author of his blog 'Radio for Everyone' has recently reviewed our new RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA. In the review he compares our ADS-B LNA against another external ADS-B LNA by...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Decoding FT-8 and RTTY with an SDRplay RSP1A
Over on YouTube radio content creator Techminds has recently started a series that shows how to decode various signals using an SDR such as the SDRplay RSP1A. The first video explains what FT-8 is and...
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PiAware Radar – A Traditional Radar-Like Display for ADS-B, and Setting up an...
PiAware Radar is a Python script that connects to your PiAware server and uses the received ADS-B data to display a familiar radar-like display (green circle with rotating radius, and aircraft...
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Explaining and Demonstrating Jam and Replay Attacks on Keyless Entry Systems...
Thank you to Christopher for submitting to us an article that he's written for a project of his that demonstrates how vulnerable vehicle keyless entry systems are to jam and replay attacks. In the...
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Art from Satellite Transmissions: SatNOGS and Software Defined Radio used in...
One of the piezo speakers playing the satellite transmissions. In the past we've seen software defined radio's like the HackRF use to create art installations such as the 'Holypager', which was an art...
View ArticleGoing Portable with the Airspy HF+, Raspberry Pi and 7-Inch Touch LCD
Over on the swling blog we've seen a post where contributor 'Tudor' demonstrates his Airspy HF+ running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 3, 7-inch touchscreen LCD, and USB power bank. The video shows GQRX...
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Using QIRX SDR and DAB Signals to Calibrate RTL-SDR Dongles
Over on his site, Clem the author of the QIRX SDR software package has written up a three part series where he explains an ultra-fast and very accurate method for calibrating the frequency offset of...
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Information on Time Correlating Signals with RTL-SDRs
In a previous post back in September 2017 Stefan Scholl (DC9ST) treated us to a very interesting write up about how to localize transmitters to within a few meters using time difference of arrival...
View ArticleVideo on using an RTL-SDR + Noise Generator as a Poor Man’s Network Analyzer
Over on YouTube user AE0AI has uploaded a video where he explains how he uses an RTL-SDR and a home made noise source as a poor man's network analyzer. A network analyzer is a tool that allows you to...
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Automatically Receiving, Decoding and Tweeting NOAA Weather Satellite Images...
Over on Reddit we've seen an interesting post by "mrthenarwhal" who describes to us his NOAA weather satellite receiving system that automatically uploads decoded images to a Twitter account. The set...
View ArticleNexmon SDR: Using the WiFi Chip on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a TX Capable SDR
Back in March of this year we posted about Nexmon SDR which is code that you can use to turn a Broadcom BCM4339 802.11ac WiFi chip into a TX capable SDR that is capable of transmitting any arbitrary...
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QuestaSDR: New RTL-SDR Software for Android
Last year we posted about QuestaSDR, which is a simple SDR multi-mode GUI that is compatible with the RTL-SDR. Since then QuestaSDR has evolved, and is now available on Android devices as well. It...
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Testing the Airspy with the New And Improved Version of ADSBSpy
Airspy have recently released an update to their ADSBspy decoder, which is an Airspy One/R2 compatible decoder for 1090 MHZ ADS-B signals. According to 'prog', the software developer of ADSBSpy, his...
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The Lego Pi RTL-SDR FM Radio
Thank you to RTL-SDR.com reader 'JJ' for writing in with a submission for his Lego Pi Radio. JJ's Lego Pi Radio consists of a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR and is designed to be an FM Radio, MP3 and...
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