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Reverse Engineering and Controlling a Wireless Doorbell with an RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to Shreyas Ubale for submitting his blog post about reverse engineering a wireless doorbell, and then performing a replay attack. Shreyas had purchased a wireless doorbell set containing one...
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A LimeSDR Mini Based Es’Hail-2 DATV Ground Station Uplink
Daniel Estévez has posted on the LimeSDR Mini CrowdSupply blog about his ground-station build for the Es'Hail-2 satellite. Es'Hail-2 is the first geostationary satellite with amateur radio transponders...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Decoding Inmarsat EGC and AERO ACARS
On his latest video Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel discusses Inmarsat LES EGC and AERO ACARS decoding. Inmarsat is a satellite provider that has multiple geosynchronous satellites...
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Using a Software Defined Radio to Send Fake Presidential Alerts over LTE
Modern cell phones in the USA are all required to support the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) program, which allows citizens to receive urgent messages like AMBER (child abduction) alerts, severe...
View ArticleHak5: Hacking Ford Key Fobs with a HackRF and Portapack
This weeks episode of Hak5 (an information security themed YouTube channel) features Dale Wooden (@TB69RR) who joins hosts Shannon and Darren to demonstrate a zero day vulnerability against Ford...
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Meteor M2 is Currently Experiencing Orientation Issues
Russian weather satellite Meteor M2 is a popular reception target for RTL-SDR radio enthusiasts, as it allows you to receive high resolution images of the Earth. However, currently it appears to be...
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Rdio Scanner: A Web Based UI for Trunk Recorder
Trunk Recorder is an RTL-SDR compatible open source Linux app that records calls from Trunked P25 and SmartNet digital voice radio systems which are commonly used by Police and other emergency services...
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Tracking Company Jets with ADS-B to Give an Edge to Hedge Fund Investors
Financial news site Bloomberg recently ran an article about how hedge fund managers are using ADS-B to track private company aircraft in order to help predict the next megadeal between companies. They...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Investigating USGS Gaging Stations and their GOES...
The United States Geological Service maintains over 8500 "Gaging stations" in bodies of water all over the country. Gaging stations are devices that are used to measure environmental data such as...
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Solar Sail Satellite Lightsail-2 Now Transmitting Morse Code Beacon
Lightsail-2 is a solar sail experiment which successfully launched on a Space-X Falcon Heavy on 25 June, and was released into orbit on July 2nd. A solar sail is a type of spacecraft that uses a large...
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Meteor M N2-2 Successfully Launched: Awaiting LRPT Signal
On July 5 the Russian Meteor M N2-2 weather satellite was successfully launched into orbit and appears to be healthy. The LRPT weather camera signal is not yet broadcasting however, and we expect it to...
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Two Antenna Diversity For the SDRPlay RSPDuo now Available in SDRUno
The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software defined radio capable of tuning between 1 kHz - 2 GHz. It's defining feature is that it has two receivers in one radio, which should allow for...
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rtlSpectrum: A New GUI for rtl_power
Thank you to Andrey for submitting news about the release of his new open source program called "rtlSpectrum". rtlSpectrum is a GUI for rtl_power, which allows you to scan a wide swath of bandwidth...
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Upcoming KerberosSDR Software Updates: Automatically Estimate TX Location and...
KerberosSDR is our 4x Coherent RTL-SDR that we've developed together with Othernet. It can be used for tasks such as direction finding and passive radar. KerberosSDR was successfully crowdfunded over...
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A Low Cost 2.4 GHz Downconverter from off the Shelf Dev Boards
Over on GitHub Ian Wraith has released his design and microcontroller code for a low cost 2.4 GHz downconverter circuit. A downconverter is a hardware device that shifts the signals that it receives...
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PICTOR: An Open Source Low Cost Radio Telescope based on RTL-SDR
PICTOR is an open source and open hardware radio telescope that aims to promote radio astronomy on a budget. It consists of a 1.5 meter parabolic dish antenna, 1420 MHz feedhorn, a two stage low noise...
View ArticleWeather Satellite Meteor M2-2 Now Transmitting Images
Reports from Reddit and Twitter are in that the recently launched Meteor M2-2 weather satellite is now functional and broadcasting images at 137.9 MHz. A few people have noted that the reception...
View ArticleA Demonstration of RSPDuo Diversity Being used to Cancel Local Interference
SDRPlay have recently published a video demonstrating how the new RSPduo diversity feature in SDRUno can be used to cancel local interference. The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software...
View ArticleSDR-Makerspace Talk: Evaluation of SDR boards and toolchains
The Software Defined Radio Academy YouTube channel recently uploaded an interesting talk by Alex Csete (creator of the popular GQRX and GPredict applications), and Sheila Christiansen. Their...
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Dronesense: A LimeSDR Based Drone Detector and Jammer
Over on the LimeSDR CrowdSupply blog, Ogün Levent has submitted a short article about his "Dronesense" project. Dronsense is a spectrum-scanning and jamming system based on the LimeSDR. The LimeSDR is...
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