Setting up a GSM Basestation in minutes with a USRP and DragonOS
DragonOS is a ready to use Linux OS image that includes many SDR programs preinstalled and ready to use. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel that has multiple tutorial videos demonstrating...
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NyanSat: A Low Cost Open Source Satellite Ground Station
Thank you to John D for writing in and letting us know that Wired magazine has recently run an article about the "Nyansat" project. Nyansat aims to bring low cost open source satellite ground stations...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Setting up a Broadcastify Feed with SDRTrunk
In her last video Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel showed us how to set up SDRTrunk for reception of digital P25 Police and other services with two RTL-SDR dongles. On this weeks...
View ArticleTechMinds: Using Public Online SDRs without SDR Hardware
This weeks video on the TechMinds channel explores the various online web SDRs that are available to access for free. Accessing these online SDRs does not require any hardware apart from a PC and...
View ArticleDefcon 2020 Online Talks: Satellite Eavesdropping & Detecting Fake 4G Base...
DEFCON 2020 was held online this year in and the talks were released a few days ago on their website and on YouTube. If you weren't already aware Defcon is a major yearly conference all about...
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MySondy: Radiosonde Tracking Firmware for a TTGO ESP32 LORA Board
A radiosonde is a small sensor and radio package normally attached to a weather balloon. Meteorological agencies around the world typically launch two balloons a day from several locations to gather...
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Testing the Electrosense Up/Downconverter Expansion Board For 0 – 6 GHz
The Electrosense network is an open source project aiming to deploy radio spectrum sensors worldwide. The idea is to help analyze and understand radio spectrum usage across the globe. Each sensor...
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Sanchez: Create False Colour Images from GOES/Himawari/GK-2A Infrared
With an RTL-SDR, an appropriate satellite antenna and LNA it is possible to receive visible light images from geostationary satellites such as GOES/Himawari and GK-2A. However, in a 24 hour cycle there...
View ArticleTechMinds: OpenWebRX Feature Overview And Raspberry Pi Setup
Over on YouTube TechMinds has posted his latest video which shows an overview of the features available in OpenWebRX, and also how to set it up on a Raspberry Pi. OpenWebRX is software which allows you...
View ArticleDragonOS: Installing Crocodile Hunter For Detecting Fake 4G Cell Sites
A few days ago we posted about two SDR related DEFCON talks which were recently released. One of the talks was about detecting fake 4G base stations with a bladeRF SDR and a tool they created called...
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Eavesdropping on LTE Calls with a USRP Software Defined Radio
Ars Technica recently ran a story about how University researchers have been able to eavesdrop on LTE mobile phone calls using a USRP B210 software defined radio which runs the Airscope software. The...
View ArticleA Handheld SciFi Scanner Box with RTL-SDR and Thermal Camera
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has been working on creating a handheld scanner/sensor box on a budget. This is a simple and fun build which is attempting to create something like a real...
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KerberosSDR: Tracking a Weather Balloon Radiosonde with Radio Direction Finding
The KerberosSDR is our 4-channel phase coherent capable RTL-SDR unit that we previously successfully crowdfunded back in 2018. With a 4-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR interesting applications like...
View ArticleYouTube Guide to Setting up and Running RTLion
RTLion is a software framework for RTL-SDR dongles that currently supports various features such as a power spectrum plot and frequency scanning. The software can run on a Raspberry Pi 3 and all...
View ArticleOpenWiFi: Open Source FPGA and SDR Based WiFi Implementation
OpenWiFi is a Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack IEEE802.11/Wi-Fi design based on an FPGA and SDR (Software Defined Radio). It aims to be the first full open source implementation of the entire WiFi...
View ArticleUsing a PlutoSDR and Mixer to Transmit 70cm DATV to a 23cm Satellite Receiver
Over on her YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere Sarah has uploaded a new video showing how she uses a PlutoSDR, HackRF and mixer to transmit DVB-S digital amateur TV to a standard satellite set top box....
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KerberosSDR Tracking a Drone Carrying an FM Beacon
KerberosSDR is our 4-channel phase coherent capable RTL-SDR unit that we previously successfully crowdfunded back in 2018. With a 4-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR interesting applications like radio...
View ArticleAutomatically Starting rtl_tcp on a Remote PC via Android
Over on his YouTube channel M Khanfar has put together a tutorial for an interesting idea. The idea is to use an automatic SSH connection to tell your Windows PC to run rtl_tcp whenever you open...
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New ExtIO For rtl_tcp: Control R820T Bandwidth, Decimation, Auto Reconnect
A few days ago we posted about Hayati and others' work in creating a new release of the librtlsdr drivers which implemented some new interesting features. However, at the time of the post there was no...
View ArticleTechMinds: Decoding GPS with an RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a video showing how it's possible to receive and decode GPS signals with an RTL-SDR. To do this he uses one of our RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongles and a GPS...
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