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IridiumLive – New Software to Plot Iridium Satellites as They Pass Overhead...
Over on GitHub, microp11, the author of Scytale-C has released a new browser based program called IridiumLive which allows you to visualize the live positions of Iridium satellites as they pass...
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RadioCapture – Software to Capture, Archive and Listen to Trunked Radio From...
Back in April 2019 we posted about Matt Mills' Radiocapture.com website which is a web service that you can feed that automatically captures analogue and digital trunked radio conversations with an...
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Meteor M N2-2 Has Failed but Recovery May be Possible
UPDATE: It has now been confirmed by Roscosmos that the satellite was struck by what is presumed to be a micrometeorite which caused a leak of thermal transfer gas, and hence a sudden orbit change. It...
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KiwiSDR Now Supports DRM Decoding
KiwiSDR have recently implemented DRM decoding into their OpenWebRX implementation. Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is a type of digital shortwave radio signal that is used by some international shortwave...
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Tracking down a Water Leak with RTLAMR
Earlier in the year Clayton discovered that his water bill had suddenly gone up one month. Suspecting a leaky appliance he set out to discover what it was by using an RTL-SDR and the rtlamr decoder....
View ArticleReceiving and Decoding NFC with an RTL-SDR and GNURadio
Having been inspired by an NFC activated coffee machine at his work, back in 2017 Jean Christophe Rona uploaded a blog post showing how he used an RTL-SDR and GNU Radio to sniff and decode NFC...
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DSDPlusUI: A Graphical User Interface for DSD+
Over on Twitter Annunaki (@StupotSinders) has been teasing some screenshots of a GUI for DSD+ that he's been developing over the past few weeks. And now he has released the software which is called...
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Remote Spectrum Monitoring with OpenWebRX, RTL-SDR and the Balena Cloud Service
Thanks to Alan Boris of Balena.io for submitting their new blog post titled "Running OpenWebRX on balena to remotely monitor local radio spectrum". Balena.io is an IoT cloud service that is used for...
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CyberRadio: A Minimal GPU Accelerated Radio App for Most SDRs
Programmer Luigi F. Cruz has recently released a new SDR app called "CyberRadio". CyberRadio is a minimal SDR app, which allows you to listen to FM and AM radio. It does not have any spectrum analyzer...
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KerberosSDR 4-Channel RTL-SDR Passive Radar with Peak Hold Display
Recently we've been testing a simple peak hold for the KerberosSDR passive radar display. This results in some nice graphs that show aircraft and vehicle activity over time. Passive radar works by...
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A Hydrogen Line Telescope Made from Cereal Boxes and an RTL-SDR
SpaceAustralia.com have recently been hosting a community science project that involves encouraging teams to build backyard radio telescopes that can detect the arms of our Milky Way Galaxy by...
View ArticleDecoding NavTex with an SDRplay RSPDx, SDRUno and YanD
Over on YouTube TechMinds has uploaded a new video explaining NavTex and showing how to decode it with an HF capable SDR like the SDRplay RSPDx. NavTex is a marine digital data radio service designed...
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A FM Radio Passive Radar System from Two RTL-SDR Dongles
Over on his blog, Max Manning has posted about his senior year design project which was an RTL-SDR based passive radar system that he created with his project partner Derek Capone. Max's writeup...
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Shazam Style Automatic Signal Identification via the Sigidwiki Database
Thank you to José Carlos Rueda for submitting news about his work on converting a "Shazam"-like Python program made originally for song identification into a program that can be used to automatically...
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Look4Sat: An Android App for Tracking and Predicting Amateur Radio and...
Thank you to Arty Bishop for submitting news about his recently released Android App called Look4Sat. Look4Sat is a satellite tracker and pass predictor with a focus on amateur radio and weather...
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Creating a Low Cost Ground Penetrating Radar with Two HackRFs
A ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a system that uses RF pulses between 10 to 2.6 GHz to image up to a few meters below the ground. A typical GPR system consists of a transmitting radio and antenna...
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MEMESat-1: A Meme-Beaming Cubesat Currently In Development
The Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement Satellite (MEMESat-1) is planned to be the first meme broadcasting cube satellite ever created. If you aren't down with modern slang and are not...
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OpenWebRX Version 0.18.0 Released: New Decoders for Digital Voice, Digital...
Back in early January we posted about how the popular web based SDR and RTL-SDR compatible receiver software known as OpenWebRX was officially discontinued by the original author. However, thanks to...
View ArticleMichael Ossmann & Kate Temkin Present Software Defined Everything with...
At the Hackaday Supercon Michael Ossmann & Kate Temkin presented a talk called "Software-Defined Everything" where they demonstrated some applications of the "GreatFET One" interface board. Michael...
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ADSBExchange now using tar1090: Historical Flight Tracks, Military Aircraft...
ADSBExchange is an aircraft tracking website service which aggregates ADS-B data from contributors running RTL-SDR's or similar receivers worldwide. However, unlike other flight tracking sites such as...
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