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New ADS-B Decoder for the Airspy Released
Youssef, the main programmer of SDR# and creator of the Airspy software defined radio has just released a beta version of an ADS-B decoder for the Airspy. The software is called “ADSB Spy” and is...
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New ADS-B Mapping and Decoder App for Android from FlightAware
Flightaware.com is a web based online radar service for aircraft. The plane position data is obtained from contributors running ADS-B decoding hardware, such as a special ADS-B receiver box or simply...
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ThumbNet – A Low Cost Satellite Groundstation Network using modified RTL-SDRs
The ThumbNet project is a project that is aiming to provide low cost satellite receivers to students and any other interested communities in order to promote worldwide education in science, technology...
View ArticleHow to Setup CWSkimmer with an RTL-SDR and HDSDR
Over on YouTube user Brent Crier has uploaded a tutorial video showing how to set up CWSkimmer with an RTL-SDR and HDSDR. CWSkimmer is regarded as one of the best pieces of software that can be used to...
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Running an RTL-SDR on OpenWRT
OpenWRT is a special custom Linux based firmware designed to create a fully functional Linux system on a internet router by replacing the stock firmware. Since OpenWRT is Linux based, it is possible to...
View ArticleBigWhoop: Global Spectrum Monitoring Network with RTL-SDR Dongles
The American space agency NASA runs a yearly challenge called the “International Space Apps Challenge”. The challenge encourages global collaboration in solving several space and Earth related...
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A self contained ADS-B Receiver using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR
Over on the Raspberry Pi Reddit discussion board user spfoamer has posted about his Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR based outdoor ADS-B receiver. ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast and...
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ADSBox: New ADS-B Decoding Software for Linux
Recently Roman, a programmer and reader of RTL-SDR.com wrote in to let us know about his ADSBox software which is a free opensource Linux based ADS-B decoder (page in Russian, use Google Translate)...
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dump978: UAT Decoder for the RTL-SDR + FlightAware App now supports UAT
In most of the world aircraft use the ADS-B standard for location tracking which transmits at a frequency of 1090 MHz. However, in the USA there is the option for aircraft to instead use the Universal...
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Sigimira Decoder now supports the RTL-SDR Directly
Sigmira is a popular free Windows software program which supports decoding of radio modes such as PSK31, RTTY, CW, STANAG 4285, Japanese Slot Machine, FSK, HFDL and M141 as well as standard modes such...
View ArticleAISRec for Android: New AIS Decoder
Back in December last year we posted about Jane feverlay’s work on his software called AISRec, which was a Windows AIS decoder for the RTL-SDR that he had developed. AIS is an acronym for Automatic...
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Remote RTL_UDP: RTL-SDR Remote Control Android App
Over the past few weeks programmer MichelinoK has been working on an Android app that allows the RTL-SDR to be listened to and controlled remotely. The app is called “Remote RTL_UDP” and allows you to...
View ArticleSDRRecorder – A Linux Script for Recording an IQ Stream at a given Date and Time
Programmer MichelinoK has just released another one of his projects. This one is called SDRRecorder and is a Linux bash script that can be used to automatically record an IQ stream of any frequency and...
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Tutorial on using Modesdeco2 for ADS-B with the RTL-SDR
Over on the SonicGoose.com blog, the author has recently created a tutorial showing how to use Modesdeco which is a multi platform command line ADS-B decoding software application. ADS-B stands for...
View ArticleSetting up the Linrad waterfall with high sensitivity for weak signals
Leif, the programmer of Linrad has uploaded a video on YouTube showing how to set up it’s waterfall for very high sensitivity reception of extremely weak signals. Linrad is an SDR GUI receiver software...
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New ADS-B Android App for North America
Previously we posted about Android programmer Tosis Nikolaos’s last app which was called “Track your flight Europe”. The app allows you to view aircraft tracked via ADS-B received by an RTL-SDR on an...
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OpenWebRX: An Multi-User RTL-SDR Receiver with Web Interface
From Reddit we’ve learned of a new web based SDR receiver software for the RTL-SDR called OpenWebRX. This python based software allows you to run a web server that allows multiple users to connect to...
View ArticleBigWhoop now a finalist in the NASA Global People’s Choice Award
Previously we posted about BigWhoop which is a project entry into the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. The BigWhoop team aim to create a networked system where RTL-SDR’s are used around the...
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Reverse Engineering a Radio Weather Station with an RTL-SDR
On his blog Josef Gajdysek has posted about his experience with using an RTL-SDR to reverse engineer the radio protocol used by his home weather station. Josef’s weather station is an ISM band device...
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New Version of Digital Speech Decoder DSD+ 1.071 Released
The latest version of Digital Speech Decoder+ (DSD+) has just been released, bringing it up to version 1.071. There appears to be no changelog, so we are unsure as to what is new, but one obvious...
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