Unlocking a Car with an RTL-SDR and Yardstick One
Over on his YouTube channel Kalle Hallden has uploaded a video demonstrating how to perform a replay and "rolljam" attack on a wireless car key with an RTL-SDR and Yardstick One. His first experiment...
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Comparing Shortwave Antennas with an RTL-SDR and FT8 Monitoring
Eric had an inverted L and T3FD antenna set up in his backyard and he wanted to test both at the same time to see which received HF better overall. Rather than relying on subjective 'by ear'...
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Reminder: Register for the GNU Radio Online Conference on September 14-18
This is just a reminder that the 2020 GNU Radio Conference will be held online in a few days time starting on September 14 and ending September 18 2020. Viewing the live talks and participation in the...
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The Open-Weather Community Nowcast: Collaborative Global Weather Satellite...
Earlier in the year we posted about Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer's work in creating an artistic performance based on weather satellite reception with SDRs. They have also since posted tutorials...
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio with RTL-SDR
Over on his blog F4GOH has posted a rather comprehensive tutorial consisting of seven PDF documents showing how he's set up his Raspberry Pi for ham radio and other RF projects. The PDF's essentially...
View ArticleDragonOS: KerberosSDR Bearing Server Setup with RDFMapper
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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33% OFF Sale: Ultra Stable Bullseye LNB for QO-100/Es’Hail-2
Back in May we started selling the Othernet Bullseye LNB on our store, which is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We have recently managed to secure a...
View ArticleGraphing Data from a Weather Station via RTL-SDR and Home Assistant
Over on YouTube user mostlychris has uploaded a helpful tutorial video show how to use an RTL-SDR to collect data coming from a personal weather station and graph it on the home automation software...
View ArticleThe SETI Institute and GNU Radio Join Forces
The institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and GNU Radio are joining forces. SETI are an organization that uses radio telescopes to search for radio signals that may have...
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Introducing the Radio Resilience Competition
Thank you to Matt Knight for submitting news about the Radio Resilience Competition which is all about finding ways to building the best wireless PHY layer via SDR. Anyone around the world can...
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John’s Windows 10 NOAA Weather Satellite Software Guide for RTL-SDR
Thank you to John First for submitting his guide all about the setup and use of the software required to receive NOAA weather satellite images on Windows 10 (pdf file) with an RTL-SDR dongle. John's...
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Decoder for Geostationary Elektro-L Weather Satellites Released
Elektro-L is a range of Russian geostationary weather satellites. Elektro-L1 and L2 were launched in 2011 and 2015 respectively, and Elektro-L3 was launched more recently in December 2019. Currently...
View ArticleTechMinds: The Langstone Project – SDR Transceiver with PlutoSDR
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a video introducing and demonstrating the Langstone Project. Langstone is a standalone homebrew SDR transceiver project by Colin Durbridge (G4EML)...
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Sanchez Updates: Combine Weather Images from GK-2A, Himawari-8, GOES 16/17...
Back in August we posted about the release of Sanchez, a tool originally designed to apply a color underlay image to grayscale infrared images received from geostationary weather satellites such as...
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Microwave Humidity Sounder Decoder for the NOAA-19 Satellite Released
Back in June we posted about the release of Zbigniew Sztanga's NOAA-HIRS-Decoder which can decode HIRS instrument data which measures the vertical temperature profile of the Earth's surface. This HIRS...
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Bullseye TCXO LNB for QO-100 33% Off Sale Ending Soon
On September 15 we began our 33% off stock reduction sale for the Bullseye LNB. The Bullseye is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We'll be ending this...
View ArticleTracking RTL-SDR Passive Radar Detections with a Kalman Filter
Back in January we posted about Max Manning's work about building a passive radar system out of two RTL-SDR dongles modified to share the same local oscillator. He's recently extended this code, adding...
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SDR Sharp Slicer Now Supports RTL-SDR and other SDRs
Youssef, Author of the SDR# software has recently updated SDR#, now extending the Sharp Slicer functionality which we posted about earlier to RTL-SDR and other supported software defined radios. The...
View ArticleConference Talk on PICTOR A Free-to-Use Open Source Radio Telescope based on...
At this years FOSDEM 2020 conference Apostolos Spanakis-Misirlis has presented a talk on his PICTOR open source radio telescope project. We have posted about PICTOR in the past [1, 2] as it makes use...
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Simple APCO P25 Phase 1 Decoder Plugin Released for SDR#
Vasili, author of several SDR# plugins has recently released a new APCO P25 plugin for SDR#. The plugin is easy to use, simply tune to a P25 voice signal, and it will automatically decode it into voice...
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