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Mike Tests out L-Band STD-C and AERO with a Low Cost Modified GPS Antenna
SDR-Kits.net have begun selling low cost GPS antennas that are modified to receive the Inmarsat satellite frequencies between 1535 MHz to 1550 MHz. They also have a version for Iridium satellites that...
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Automatically Photographing Passing Aircraft with an RTL-SDR, Pi 3, and IoT...
Arun Venkataswamy has recently completed a write up about his system which automatically captures images of passing aircraft. It works by using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR to listen to ADS-B broadcasts...
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Decoding PAL Video from a Nintendo with An Airspy SDR Part 2
Oona combines composite output for color images. Last week we posted about Oona Räisänen's ([Windytan] and @windyoona) project to capture live video from her 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Harold’s Mobile SDR Vehicle Load Out for Amateur Radio
This week on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel Harold shows us the mobile SDR and ham radio setup that he's installed on his car. On the roof of his car he's installed several antennas for various...
View ArticleHacking Iridium Satellites With Iridium Toolkit
Over on YouTube TechMinds has uploaded a video showing how to use the Iridium Toolkit software to receive data and audio from Iridium satellites with an Airspy. Iridium is a global satellite service...
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A Wall Mounted SatNOGS Ground Station Monitor
If you weren't already aware, SatNOGS is an open source project that aims to make it easy for volunteers to build and run RF ground stations (typically based on RTL-SDR hardware) that automatically...
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SDRSharp Community Plugin Package Now Available
The SDR# developer in conjunction with Rodrigo Pérez have recently endorsed and released a "community plugin package" over on the SDR# downloads page. This consists of a SDR# installer that...
View ArticleTV Scrambling With GNU Radio and a FL2K Adapter
[mrgriscomredux] over on [Reddit] was interested in re-creating the nostalgia that was scrambled analog television from the 90s. To do this he captured an NTSC analog video signal using an RSP1 SDR and...
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NanoVNASaver Software Walkthrough + NanoVNA Firmware Updates Bring 1.5 GHz...
The NanoVNA is an open source VNA project by @edy555 and ttrftech that has recently become extremely affordable at less than US$50 for a fully assembled unit thanks to Chinese manufacturing (or a...
View ArticleDecoding the ARES Train Protocol with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user JellyImages has uploaded a video demonstrating his Windows based ARESrcvr software. ARES is a railway control communications protocol used by some trains in the USA. His code...
View ArticleMonitoring 3D Printer Filament Moisture with an RTL-SDR and rtl_433
Over on Hackaday we've seen a post about Scott M. Baker's 3D printer filament drying farm that is monitored by a 433 MHz ISM band sensor and an RTL-SDR running rtl_433. If you're familiar with 3D...
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PREORDER SALE: Active L-Band 1525-1637 Inmarsat to Iridium Patch Antenna Set...
Over the last several months we've been working on a versatile active L-band patch antenna that can cover Inmarsat to Iridium satellite frequencies. That antenna is now almost ready, and should be able...
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Electrosense: RTL-SDR Based Crowd Sourced Spectrum Monitoring with a DC to 6...
Recently we came across Electrosense which is an interesting open source project that aims to deploy radio spectrum sensors worldwide in order to analyze and understand radio spectrum usage. This...
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Fingerprinting Electronic Devices via their RF Emissions with an RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to José Carlos Rueda for submitting his simple shell script that he uses for fingerprinting spurious RF emissions with an RTL-SDR, rtl_power, heatmap.py and imagemagick. The result is...
View ArticleWatching Lightning Strikes on the Spectrum with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Tech Addict Attic has uploaded a video demonstrating what lightning strikes look like on the radio spectrum. To receive the pulses he uses an RTL-SDR and a simple wire antenna...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Decoding HD Radio with an RTL-SDR
Corrosive (KR0SIV) from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel has uploaded a new video that explains and shows HD radio being decoded with an RTL-SDR. If you are in the USA, you might recognize HD...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Pagers with the HackRF PortaPack and an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user HackedExistence has uploaded a video explaining how POCSAG pager signals work, and he also shows some experiments that he's been performing with his HackRF PortaPack and an old...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Testing out NooElecs PCB L-Band Patch Antenna
Over on his YouTube channel Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel has uploaded a video where he tests out the new US$29.95 NooElec PCB patch antenna for receiving L-band satellite...
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Using a LimeSDR and RTL-SDR to Transfer a Text File Over the Air
Over on his blog nuclearrambo has been working on a project that uses a LimeSDR and RTL-SDR to transfer a small CSV text file over the air. The transmitting side consists of a GNU Radio flowchart that...
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Updates on the PICTOR Low Cost Open Source Radio Telescope Based on RTL-SDR
Back in July we posted about PICTOR, an open source and RTL-SDR based radio telescope project. The owner of the project recently wrote in and wanted to share some updates. His text is below: A few...
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