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DSDPlusUI Now Available as a Plugin for SDR#
At the beginning of 2020 Annunaki (@StupotSinders) released his third party user interface for DSDPlus. DSDPlus is a digital speech decoder capable of decoding protocols such as P25 P1, DMR, NXDN and...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 8: Overcoming FM Broadcast Interference + Simple...
In this weeks episode of Frugal Radio's SDR Guide videos Rob shows how a FM bandstop filter can help in certain situations. A FM bandstop is designed to reduce the power level of FM broadcast stations...
View ArticleKerberosSDR with DF-Aggregator Direction Finding Attempt
Back in October we first posted about the release of DF-Aggregator, a program by Corey (ckoval7) which can be used to receive and plot data from multiple KerberosSDR direction finding units. If you...
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SSTV from the International Space Station Scheduled for Dec 24 – Dec 31
Thank you to Maksim for submitting news that the International Space Station (ISS) will be transmitting Slow Scan TV (SSTV) in late December to celebrate 20 years of amateur radio operations onboard...
View ArticleDragonOS: OP25 “Boatbod” P25 Phase 1 Running on GNU Radio 3.8 with RTL-SDR
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR program. The creator of DragonOS, Aaron, uploads various YouTube tutorials. In his latest tutorial he shows how...
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Talks and Tutorials from GNU Radio Days 2019 Now on YouTube
GNU Radio Days is a yearly European conference all about GNU Radio and its applications with software defined radios. GNU Radio is an open source digital signal processing (DSP) toolkit which is often...
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CalibrateSDR: Calibrating your SDR Frequency Offset with DAB+
Thanks to Andreas Hornig who has recently released a new program called "CalibrateSDR" (GitHub code) which is designed to accurately determine the frequency offset of an SDR via an IQ recording of a...
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New SDR# User Guide Available
Paolo Romani IZ1MLL has recently created a SDR# users guide document which comprehensively explains all the features and settings available in the program. SDR# (aka SDRSharp) from Airpsy.com is...
View ArticleTech Minds: Decoding Orbcomm Satellites with a Software Defined Radio
Over on his YouTube channel TechMinds has uploaded a new video showing how to decode signals from Orbcomm satellites. Orbcomm run a global network of low earth orbit satellites that perform services...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 9 – P25 LSM Trunking with one RTL-SDR V3 and DSDPlus
In his latest episode of his SDR Guide series Rob from Frugal Radio provides a walkthrough on using DSDPlus Fastlane to decode trunked P25 with just one RTL-SDR V3 dongle. In the video he explains each...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: A Front End GUI Control Head for OP25
Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel is back and this time showing off a new program she has created called "Pi25" or "OP25 Mobile Control Head". The program is a Python GUI for OP25 which...
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Using SDR to Investigate Telemetry Still Broadcasting from 1960’s Satellite...
Thank you to Derek @ok9sgc for pointing us to some work Reddit user u/Xerbot has been doing on receiving telemetry coming down from a "dead" 1960's satellite called Transit-5B5. The fleet of Transit...
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SATRAN: An Affordable Motorized Satellite Antenna Rotator
Recently we came across the SATRAN project by Daniel Nikolajsen, which is an attempt to design, build and sell low cost kits of an automatic motorized satellite antenna rotator for less than US$200. A...
View ArticleHacking a Ceiling Fan Radio Control Signal with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube "River's Educational Channel" has uploaded a video showing how he was able to reverse engineer the wireless control signal from his ceiling fan remote, and use that information to...
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GNU Radio 3.9.0.0 Released
GNU Radio is an open source digital signal processing (DSP) toolkit which is often used in cutting edge radio applications and research to implement decoders, demodulators and various SDR algorithms....
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Installing and Configuring OP25 Phase 1 & 2 Digital Voice...
In this weeks video Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel show us how to install and configure the OP25 software on a Linux machine. OP25 is a Linux based P25 digital voice decoder which...
View ArticleDragonOS: Decoding FT8 on Linux with WSJT-X
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR program. The creator of DragonOS, Aaron, uploads various YouTube tutorials showing how to use some of the...
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FAASGS: A Setup to Build a Fully Automatic Amateur and APT Weather Satellite...
Over on GitHub stdevPavelmc has released his software called FAASGS (Fully Automatic Amateur Satellite Ground Station). FAASGS is an open source program that allows RTL-SDR users to set up a satellite...
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bladeRF-wiphy: Open Source WiFi Access Point on a BladeRF
Back in August 2020 we posted about OpenWiFi , an open source implementation of the full IEEE802.11/Wi-Fi stack for FPGA and SDR combo board. Recently the team at Nuand have released their own WiFi...
View ArticleInstalling and using RTL-SDR and GQRX on a PinePhone
Over on YouTube channel "Privacy & Tech Tips" has uploaded a video demonstrating how it's possible to run GQRX with an RTL-SDR on a PinePhone. In the video the presenter shows how to set up the...
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