DragonOS: Decoding Iridium Satellites with the Iridium Toolkit and an RTL-SDR
DragonOS is a ready to use Linux OS image that includes various SDR programs preinstalled and ready to use. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel that has multiple tutorial videos demonstrating...
View ArticleHak5: Turning a Key Croc into an RTL-SDR Server
The Hak5 Key Croc is a pentesting tool designed for emulating USB devices such as keyboards. It is commonly used by pentesters for keylogging and keystroke injection. It has some advanced features like...
View ArticleTechMinds: How to Track Weather Balloons Using SDR
In his latest video Tech Minds has uploaded a video showing how to use an SDR to receive transmissions from radiosondes carried by weather balloons. Every day meteorological agencies around the world...
View ArticleStep-by-step Guide to Creating a GNU Radio Based QO-100 SSB Receiver
Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting his video that shows a step-by-step tutorial on building your own SSB receiver in Windows GNU Radio for QO-100 satellite reception. His tutorial includes adding...
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A Simple Guide to Setting up a DIY NOAA Weather Satellite Ground Station
A few weeks ago we posted about Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann's work in creating an artistic performance based on weather satellite reception with SDRs. More recently they have uploaded their own...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Radio Trunking Systems with a Focus on P25 and SDR Trunk
Thank you to Carl Makin (VK1KCM) for submitting a video that he produced for his local ham radio club in Australia. In the video Carl first gives an overview on radio trunking systems and explains why...
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Imaging the Milky Way in Neutral Hydrogen with an RTL-SDR Part 2
Last month we shared information about Job Geheniau's success with using an RTL-SDR dongle to image our galaxy in neutral Hydrogen. Our galaxy is full of neutral Hydrogen, and lots of neutral Hydrogen...
View ArticleTech Minds: Eavesdropping on Video Monitors with TempestSDR
Over on his latest video Tech Minds' explores the use of TempestSDR to eavesdrop on video monitors with his Airspy Mini. TempestSDR is a program that we've posted about several times in the past. With...
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Electrosense+: Global Network of RTL-SDR Sensors with Decoding of FM/AM ADS-B...
Back in late 2019 we posted about the Electrosense network which is an open source project aiming to deploy radio spectrum sensors worldwide. The idea is to help analyze and understand radio spectrum...
View ArticleControlling Frequency in SDR# with a Barcode Scanner
Thank you to Manuel Lausmann for submitting his YouTube video showing how he has set up a system that allows him to rapidly change frequencies in SDR# with a barcode scanner and some barcodes printed...
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Tracking Wild Bats with SDRs – Featured in Science Magazine
Recently research from Tel-Aviv University by Sivan Toledo et al. involving the use of USRP SDRs to track wild bats was published in Science. The Journal Science (aka Science Magazine) is one of the...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: 2020 SDR Guide Ep 2 – Using Free Online SDRs
Over on his YouTube channel Frugal Radio has released the second episode in his 2020 SDR Guide series. In this video, Frugal Radio shows how to connect to remote SDRs such as KiwiSDR OpenWebRX, WebSDR,...
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Using CubicSDR, rtl_433, MQTT and Telegraf to Stream Live Data to InfluxDB
Nimrod makes his own sourdough and wanted a way to track the temperature and humidity of the bread making environment. To do this he's set up a system involving rtl_433 on a Raspberry Pi which live...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Using an Airspy and RTL-SDR To Scan the UHF Military Airband in...
In Frugal Radio's latest video he explores how you can use an Airspy or RTL-SDR dongle to scan the entire military UHF airband spectrum in a few seconds via SDR#. Frugal Radio notes that there are...
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Alpha Version of SDR++ Released
SDR++ is an open source general purpose cross platform SDR program that Alexandre Rouma (@WhatsTheGeekYT) has been working on for the past few months. Recently he released his first Windows Alpha...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: SDRTrunk P25 Police Scanner Tutorial with two RTL-SDRs
Over on YouTube Sarah from SignalsEverywhere has uploaded a new tutorial video showing how to use two RTL-SDR dongles with the free SDRTrunk software to create a P25 Police scanner. In the video she...
View ArticleStandalone Windows FengYun-3 & MetOp HRPT Weather Satellite Decoder
Back in June we posted about Alan (@aang254)'s work on porting the GNU Radio gr-hrpt decoder over to GNU Radio 3.8. More recently Alan wrote in and wanted to share the news that he has recently...
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SignalID: Shazam Style Automatic Signal Identification for Android
SignalID is a new Android app available on the Google Play store which offers Shazam-like radio signal identification. Just like Shazam does for music, you simply tune to an unknown signal with your...
View ArticleRSGB Talk: How To Check and Report VDSL RFI with an SDR in the UK
Back in April we posted a video from Tech Minds where he showed us how to use special software combined with an SDRplay RSPdx to detect and report VDSL interference on the HF bands. VDSL or Very High...
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Analyzing Lightning Discharges with an RTL-SDR and the Sage Network
Sage is a project working on creating geographically distributed sensor systems including cameras, microphones, weather and air quality stations in order to benefit the work of scientists. Recently on...
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