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Tutorial on using RS to Decode and Plot Radiosondes
A radiosonde is a small weather sensor package that is typically attached to a weather balloon. As it rises into the atmosphere it measures parameters such as temperature, humidity, pressure, GPS...
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Helium: The SDR Based Cyrptocurrency for IoT
Helium is a cyrptocurrency being designed for internet of things (IoT) sensors which will be based on low cost software defined radio (SDR) technology. The idea is to design a system that will pay...
View ArticleBuilding a Tracking Mount for HRPT Weather Satellite Reception
Over on YouTube channel The Thought Emporium recently released a new video where they show the first steps they've taken towards building a home made satellite tracking mount for receiving HRIT and...
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Receiving GOES Weather Satellite HRIT with an SDRplay and 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid...
Over on the SDRplay forums member RSP2user has posted a new tutorial, this time showing how to receive weather satellite images from GOES satellites with an RSP2 and cheap 2.4 GHz WiFi grid antenna....
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Decoding a Moon Orbiting Satellite 378500 km’s away with an RTL-SDR
Thanks to IU2EFA (William) for writing in and letting us know about his success in decoding telemetry from the moon orbiting satellite known as DSLWP-B / LONGJIANG-2. LONJIANG-2 is a Chinese lunar...
View ArticleBuilding a Tracking Mount for HRPT Weather Satellite Reception Part 2
Earlier this month we posted about The Thought Emporium who uploaded a video to YouTube where they documented the first steps of their construction of a tracking mount for a 2.4 GHz grid WiFi dish...
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HDSDR Version 2.80 Beta Released
HDSDR is a popular general purpose multimode program for Windows that supports various SDRs including the RTL-SDR. Version 2.80 (beta) of HDSDR was released a few days ago and brings with it a few GUI...
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Using a Raspberry Pi 3, USB Soundcard, Speclab and Exagear to Detect SAQ VLF...
Thanks to DE8MSH for writing in about his project that involves using a Raspberry Pi 3 and cheap 7€ USB sound card connected to an old Grahn GS1 VLF antenna to detect the SAQ VLF station. Standard PC...
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Testing the RTL-SDR V3 Direct Sampling Mode for use in a 2-FSK RPiTX Modem
Over on his blog, Rowetel has been testing our RTL-SDR Blog V3 in order to possibly use as a cheap FSK receiver for his RPiTX 2-FSK modem project. His post details some measurements that he's done in...
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Aggregating Weather Balloon Data Online with a Custom Raspberry Pi Image
Thanks to a RTL-SDR.COM reader for submitting a tip about radiosondy.info, a weather balloon data aggregation website made by SQ6KXY. Weather balloons carry a sensor and transmitter payload called a...
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Listening To Multiple DMR Channels with DSD+ and a HackRF on Linux
Thanks to Tony C who wrote in and wanted to share a method that he's found to listen to multiple DMR digital voice channels in Linux. DSD+ is a Windows program that can be used to decode DMR. Although...
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New NOAA APT Image Decoder
Over on GitHub user martinber has released a new NOAA APT image decoder that can run on both Linux and Windows. The decoder is called noaa-apt and takes a .WAV file of a NOAA satellite pass, and turns...
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KerberosSDR Running RF Direction Finding on a Tinkerboard
KerberosSDR (formerly HydraSDR) is our upcoming 4-input coherent RTL-SDR. It's designed for coherent applications like RF direction finding, passive radar, beam forming and more, but can also be used...
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Transmitting and Receiving DATV with a LimeSDR and a Modified $20 DVB-S Receiver
Over on YouTube user Corrosive has uploaded a video showing how he can use the recently updated DATV Express software to transmit Digital Amateur TV (DATV) with a LimeSDR Mini, and receive it with a...
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rtl_ultrasound: Using a Piezoelectric Transducer with an RTL-SDR to Create an...
Over on GitHub an interesting project that involves using an ultrasound transducer and RTL-SDR to create a low cost 2D ultrasound imager has been uploaded. Ultrasound imagers transmit acoustic sound...
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NooElec SAWBird: An LNA + Filter for GOES Weather Satellite Reception Now...
NooElec has just released their new "SAWbird" GOES LNA for sale. This is an LNA and filter combination designed to help receive GOES weather satellite images. On the PCB is a 1688 MHz SAW filter and a...
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SDR# Inmarsat Decoder Plugin Now Available
Microp11, the programmer of Scytale-C a standalone Inmarsat decoder has just released a new Inmarsat decoder SDR# plugin. The plugin is currently in the "pre-alpha" stages, so is still missing some...
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SegDSP: Distributed Cloud Based SDR with SpyServer
Over the last few months Lucas Teske (author of the Open Satellite Project) has been working on a piece of software called "SegDSP". The idea appears to create a web GUI based SDR receiver for...
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Grid-2-Audio: Analyzing the Mains Electrical Grid Waveform with a PC Soundcard
Over on Hackaday and Hackaday.io we've seen an interesting project by David Scholten called "Grid-2-Audio". The project's goal is to build a safe device for monitoring the mains electrical grid...
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Locating a Radio Transmitter with Direction Finding Techniques and...
KerberosSDR is our upcoming low cost 4-tuner coherent RTL-SDR. With four antenna inputs it can be used as a standard array of four individual RTL-SDRs, or in coherent applications such as direction...
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