A Few More Demonstrations of the SDR# FM and AM Co-Channel Cancellers
Over on YouTube a few more videos showing the new AM and FM co-channel cancelling algorithms available in recent versions of SDR# have been uploaded. In the first video YouTuber channel "Peter...
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RPiTX Beta for Raspberry Pi 4 Released
Evariste (F5OEO) has just announced the release of an update to RPiTX which allows it to now be used on a Raspberry Pi 4. If you are unfamiliar with it, RPiTX is a program for Raspberry Pi single board...
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RF Fingerprinting ADS-B Signals for Security
At this years ICNP 2020 IEEE conference a paper titled "Real-World ADS-B signal recognition based on Radio Frequency Fingerprinting" (pdf file) was presented by researchers from the University of...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 6 – Trunk Tracking Public Safety Systems with...
In this episode of Frugal Radio's ongoing SDR Guide videos Rob demonstrates how he uses Unitrunker and SDR Trunk with SDRs like an RTL-SDR to monitor Public Safety networks in his area. Rob writes:...
View ArticleAndreas Spiess Tracks Weather Balloons with a TTGO LoRa Board and RTL-SDR
Earlier in August we posted about radiosondy.info and the MySondy radiosonde receiver. Radiosondy.info is an internet service that aggregates radiosonde weather balloon data received and decoded by...
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Radio Spectrum Analysis in Virtual Reality with an RTL-SDR and Google Cardboard
Thank you to José Carlos Rueda for submitting his project called "a-radio: a web virtual reality radio power spectrum analyzer". The idea behind the project is to first use an RTL-SDR together with...
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A 3D Printed Automatically Adjusting Linear Antenna Array for KerberosSDR...
Over on GitLab Josh Conway has released a design for an automatically adjusting antenna array which can be used with radio direction finding capable SDRs like our KerberosSDR. KerberosSDR is a SDR...
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DF Aggregator: New Software for Networked Radio Direction Finding with...
Over on GitHub Corey (ckoval7) has released a new open source radio direction program called "DF Aggregator". This software is able to receive bearings and locations from multiple remotely networked...
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Hermes and Red Pitaya now Supported in OpenWebRX
Thank you to Stefan Dambeck (DC7DS) for submitting news about OpenWebRX adding support for Hermes HPSDR compatible SDRs. Hermes is a single board version of the open source high performance SDR (HPSDR)...
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Information about Receiving the GOES-13 Weather Satellite (Europe Coverage...
For some time now many weather satellite enthusiasts have enjoyed the ability to relatively easily receive live high resolution images directly from the GOES-16, GOES-17 and GK-2A geostationary...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Debugging RF Emissions on a Circuit Board with an RTL-SDR
Over on the Hackaday YouTube channel a video by Alex Whittemore has been uploaded showing how to do some basic RF emissions debugging. When creating electronic products it's important to ensure that...
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FengYun-2H/G Geostationary Weather Satellite Now Decodable with 120cm Dish...
Hot on the heels of the GOES-13 weather satellite decoder that we posted about a few days ago, @aang254 has just released a new RTL-SDR compatible decoder for the FengYun-2H, 2G and possibly 2E...
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Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with a HackRF
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is an ongoing project that aims to detect radio signals originating from intelligent species somewhere in the universe. Recently Alberto Caballero, a...
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AirNav 20% Off ADS-B Hardware Black Friday/Cyber Monday
AirNav is the company behind RadarBox24.com, a flight data aggregation service similar to sites like FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com. RTL-SDR hardware is typically used to receive ADS-B, and like...
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Job’s Radio Telescope: Hydrogen Line Northern Sky Survey with RTL-SDR
We've posted about Job Geheniau's RTL-SDR radio telescope a few times in the past [1] [2] [3], and every time his results improve. This time is no exception as he's created his highest resolution radio...
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Simple DMR Plugin for SDR# Now Available
Vasili from rtl-sdr.ru has recently released a simple DMR decoder plugin for SDR# to go along with his simple dPMR and TETRA decoders that we posted about earlier. Simple DMR decoder. No external...
View ArticleNew SDRUno Plugin Video Demos: Frequency Annotation, WEFAX, SSTV, DXToolbox
Earlier this year SDRplay updated their SDRuno software to have plugin functionality. This allows third party programmers to implement their own decoders and software which interfaces with SDRuno...
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Testing the Mayhem Firmware on a HackRF Portapack
The Portapack is an add on for the popular HackRF SDR which allows the HackRF to be used portably without a PC. Recently the cost of this hardware duo has come down to below US$150 due to low cost...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 7 – Trunk DMR & NXDN digital with DSDPlus and One...
In this episode of Frugal Radio's ongoing SDR guide videos Rob demonstrates how you can use an RTL-SDR with DSDPlus to monitor DMR and NXDN digital voice radio communications. Rob writes: With a simple...
View ArticleSteve Mould Hacks Into his Car with a HackRF
Over on YouTube popular science content creator Steve Mould has uploaded a video showing how he was able to open his own car using a HackRF software defined radio. In the video Steve first uses the...
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