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Othernet (formerly Outernet) Updates Lantern Backers
Othernet (formerly known as Outernet) are a providers of a free data service broadcast from satellites. They hope to build a system and low cost satellite receiver products where people can easily...
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Creating a Passive Traffic Radar with DVB-T Signals and KerberosSDR our...
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...
View ArticleMeasuring the SWR of FPV Antennas with an RTL-SDR
FPV stands for 'First Person View', and is a term used to describe the hobby of flying remote controlled aircraft entirely via the view from a wireless camera that transmits live video to the pilots...
View ArticleListening to the Sound of Molecules via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and an...
Over on YouTube user aonomus has uploaded a video showing how he's used an RTL-SDR to observe and listen to the radio signal generated via a chemistry lab's nuclear magnetic resonance machine. To do...
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GammaRF: Distributed Radio Signal Collection and Analysis with RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to Josh for submitting news about his project called GammaRF. GammaRF is an client-server program that is used to aggregate signal information via the internet from distributed SDRs....
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Spektrum SV Mod: RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer Software Now with Improved UI
Spektrum is a popular spectrum analyzer program that is used with RTL-SDR dongles. It is based on the command line rtl_power software and is compatible with both Windows and Linux. Thanks to it's easy...
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Aerial Landmine Detection using USRP SDR Based Ground Penetrating Radar
Over the last few years researchers at Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, a University in Colombia, have been looking into using SDRs for aerial landmine detection. The research uses a USRP B210 software...
View ArticleMore KerberosSDR Passive Radar Demos
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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Reverse Engineering Wireless Blinds with an RTL-SDR and Controlling them with...
Amazon Alexa is a smart speaker that can be programmed to control home automation devices via voice commands. For example, Stuart Hinson wanted to be able to control his wirelessly controlled blinds...
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Using a LimeSDR To Detect Aircraft Reflections from a 2.3 GHz Beacon
Over on his blog author Daniel Estevez has described how he's been listening to aircraft reflections from a 2.3 GHz 2W beacon. The beacon is 10km away from Daniels location and transmits a tone and CW...
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Using the HackRF PortaPack To Perform a Mag-Stripe Audio Spoof
Over on his blog author "netxing" has uploaded a post describing how he was able to use a Portapack to spoof mag-stripe info stored on credit/debit cards. The idea based around an old trick called...
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Receiving GOES Weather Satellite Images with GNURadio and XRITDecoder in Windows
Thank you to ON7NDR as well as CM2ESP for submitting and figuring out a way to get GOES 16 decoding working with RTL-SDR using the free XRITDecoder, Xrit2Pic software and GNU Radio for Windows....
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SDR# Update: SpyServer Network Browser now Available
The programmers of SDR# have just released a new version which now includes a SpyServer directory browser. SpyServer is an Airspy and RTL-SDR compatible SDR streaming server for SDR#. It allows you to...
View ArticleUFO Detection with an Image Intensifier and FM Reflections Received with an...
Recently reader Syed Ali wrote in and wanted to share some experiments in UFO detection that he's been performing with an image intensifier and an RTL-SDR. The RTL-SDR is used to detect a distant FM...
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AERO C-Channel Voice Audio Now Decodable with JAERO
JAERO was recently updated by programmer Jonti, and it now supports the decoding of AERO C-Channels which are voice audio channels that exist on both the L-Band and C-Band frequencies of AERO. AERO is...
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A Multi-Feature Raspberry Pi Radio with RTL-SDR, Internet Radio, Google...
Recently JJ wrote in and wanted to share his multi-feature living room radio that he's created with a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR, and various software packages installed on the Pi. Previously we posted...
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A Tutorial on Receiving HF SSTV with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR V3
Thank you to Giuseppe (IT9YBG) who has written in to share his tutorial about setting up a direct sampling RTL-SDR V3 based SSTV receiver on a Raspberry Pi. He writes that he uses the receiver to...
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USA-Satcom XRIT Decoder Updated
USA-Satcom is the programmer of XRIT Decoder (not to be confused with XRITDecoder by CM2ESP), which is a popular (paid) Windows decoding application for GOES weather satellites. Recently, over on the...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial: Installing GNU-Radio on Windows 10
Over on YouTube user Petr Horký has uploaded a helpful tutorial video showing how to install GNU Radio on Windows 10. Petr goes through the steps from installing Python, pip and other dependencies like...
View ArticleSetting up Air Traffic Control Audio Sharing with Broadcastify, RTL-Airband,...
Over on YouTube Fuzz The Pi Guy has uploaded a video tutorial showing how to set up a Broadcastify air traffic control audio feed with RTL-Airband and an RTL-SDR running on a Raspberry Pi. This allows...
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