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GQRX Updates: GR3.8, New Color Maps, Bug and Performance Fixes
Since mid-January 2020 the popular Linux and Mac compatible SDR program GQRX has seen a number of new code commits over on it's git repository. Some of the updates include moving to GNU Radio 3.8, new...
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IGate2: An RTL-SDR Compatible APRS iGate for Android
Thank you yo Agrosi Luciano for submitting news about his new RTL-SDR compatible Android App called "IGate2". IGate2 is a receive only APRS IGate written for Android devices. There is a free and paid...
View ArticleCombining Android Tasker and an RTL-SDR for Mobile Automated Frequency Power...
Over on YouTube Ian Grody has uploaded two videos demonstrating an early alpha project that he is working on which combines Android Tasker with RTL-SDR frequency scanning. Tasker is an Android...
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Thesis on Locating Transmitters with TDoA and RTL-SDRs
Jan Hrach of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Univerzita Karlova in the Czech Republic recently defended his Masters thesis titled "Passive emitter tracking". The main theme of the thesis was...
View ArticleA Seminar on Setting up and Understanding a SatNOGS Satellite Ground Station
At the 2019 TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), Corey Shields (KB9JHU) and Dan White (AD0CQ) presented a comprehensive guide on setting up your own SatNOGS satellite ground receiver station....
View ArticleYouTube Tutorial on Receiving Weather Images from NOAA Satellites
Over on YouTube the "Ham Radio Crash Course" channel has uploaded a new video showing how to receive APT images from NOAA weather satellites. There are many tutorials (such as ours here) and videos on...
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OpenEar: An Easy to Use Windows TETRA Voice Decoder
A new TETRA voice decoder called "OpenEar" has just been released. The program is a standalone Windows app that directly connects to an RTL-SDR. Decoding a TETRA voice signal is as simple as opening...
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SATSAGEN: Software to use a PlutoSDR as a Tracking Spectrum Analyzer
Thank you to Frank, HB9FXQ for submitting news about a new Windows program called SATSAGEN which allows you to use a PlutoSDR as a wideband spectrum analyzer. SATSAGEN was created by Alberto IU1KVL and...
View ArticleRTL-SDR AIS Android App Now with Waterfall Display for Frequency Offset Tuning
Thank you to Christian, author of the RTL-SDR AIS Android App for letting us know that he's updated his app and it now includes a waterfall display for tuning the AIS frequency. Tuning the AIS...
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DragonOS: Debian Linux with Preinstalled Open Source SDR Software
Thank you to Aaron for submitting news about his latest project called "DragonOS" which he's been working on while in COVID-19 lock down. DragonOS is a Debian Linux based operating system which comes...
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Creating an APRS I-Gate and Digipeater with Baofeng and RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube ModernHam has uploaded a video showing how to create an APRS I-Gate and Digipeater with Baofeng and RTL-SDR. He also makes use of a Raspberry Pi as the computing module and an audio...
View ArticleStarlink Doppler Reflections Caught with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube William IU2EFA has been uploading multiple short "meteor scatter" videos. This involves using an RTL-SDR to briefly receive distant radio stations via the RF signal reflecting off the...
View ArticleRadwave Updates: Browse SETI Spectrum Data on your Android Device
Back in February 2019 we first posted about Radwave, an Android SDR App for RTL-SDR dongles. It has some interesting features not found in other Apps like the ability to easily zoom, pause and rewind...
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Receiving SMOG-P and ATL-1 Nano Satellites with an RTL-SDR
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting his tutorial that shows how to receive signals from the SMOG-P and ATL-1 nano satellites which were launched via Rocket Lab back in late 2019. SMOG-P...
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OpenEar Now Supports TETRA, DMR, POCSAG, ADS-B
Back in March we posted about "OpenEar" which was a newly released Windows TETRA decoder for RTL-SDR dongles. Back then the author "moneriomaa" noted that he planned to add several new modes. In the...
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DragonOS Updated: Now with OP25 Installed and many new YouTube Tutorials
Last month we posted about Aaron's "DragonOS" project, which is a ready to install Linux ISO aimed to make getting started with SDR software easy by providing several programs preinstalled, as well as...
View ArticleEasily Streaming SDR Output Audio through a Network to an Android Phone
Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting another video where he demonstrates and explains how to easily send audio from your Linux PC over to an Android phone. This can be used to monitor the audio output...
View ArticleGorizont-rtlsdr: Another Linux OS Distro with Built in RTL-SDR Support &...
A few days ago we posted about DragonOS, which is a Linux ISO file with several built in SDR programs that the creator Aaron has been working on during his COVID-19 lockdown period. We've now got a...
View ArticleYouTube Series on Inmarsat Decoding with Scytale-C
Paul (microp11) is the programmer behind the Scytale-C Inmarsat decoder which has become very popular with RTL-SDR owners. With Scytale-C, and RTL-SDR and an appropriate L-band antenna and amplifier it...
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Broadcastify Calls: Radio Call Archiving + Incentives for SDR Software...
Broadcastify is a large scanner audio streaming site which provides live audio streams of Fire, Police, EMS, Aircraft and Rail communications across the USA and in many other countries. These streams...
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