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SATSAGEN Spectrum Analyzer Software Updated: Now Supports RTL-SDR
Back in March last year we first posted about the release of SATSAGEN, and program by Alberto (IU1KVL) that allowed the PlutoSDR to work as a spectrum analyzer. SATSAGEN has recently been updated to...
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Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array
Thank you to Laakso Mikko a PhD student at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering for submitting news about his research group's latest paper involving a 21-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR...
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SDRSharp Upgraded to .NET5 with New Plugin SDK For Developers
The popular SDR# (SDRSharp) software has recently been updated to version 1788, and now runs on the .NET5 SDK. Most of the upgrades are behind the scenes, but generally the new version appears to be...
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SDR-Server: An Advanced Open Source RTL-SDR Streaming Server
Developer @dernasherbrezon has recently released a new program called "sdr-server" which is a streaming server. Unlike the more basic rtl_tcp server, sdr-server has some more advanced features like...
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SDR++ Recent Updates: Plugins, Multi-VFO, Multi-Platform, Native RTL-SDR and...
Back in July 2020 we first posted about the alpha release of "SDR++" which back then was a new project by "Whatsthegeek" that was determined to bring an open source, cross platform, C++ based GUI...
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Building an 11.2 GHz Radio Telescope with an Airspy and 1.2m TV Satellite Dish
In the past we've posted several times about how 1.42 GHz Hydrogen Line amateur radio telescopes used with RTL-SDRs or other SDRs for Hydrogen line observations of the galaxy. Recently Hackaday ran a...
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Getting Started with Developing Plugins for SDR# on .NET 5
Recently we posted about how SDR# was updated to the latest .NET 5 framework, and this brought with it a new plugin SDK for developers. If you're wanting to get started with plugin development,...
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Analyzing Frozen Air Traffic in the Hudson Valley
Thank you to Steve Bossert (K2GOG) for submitting his article on analyzing traffic from his RTL-SDR based ADS-B receiver during the recent heavy snow storms at his location in the Hudson Valley. His...
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SDRSharp Guide by IZ1MLL Updated
Thank you to Paolo Romani IZ1MLL for letting us know that he has updated his popular SDRSharp users guide that we posted about previously last December. The guide is available on the Airspy downloads...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring Aviation Communications Part One
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently started a new YouTube series all about monitoring aviation communications. In his first video Rob gives an overview on what can be aviation signals can monitored and...
View ArticleAdding an RTL-SDR Antenna Port to a Pinetab Linux Tablet
The Pinetab is a US$99.99 open source Ubuntu Linux Tablet based on a low power Pine64 singe board computer. The Pinetab can optionally support an internal RTL-SDR, which is essentially just a standard...
View ArticleControlling a Wireless Ceiling Fan with an RTL-SDR and RPiTX on a Raspberry Pi
Over on YouTube River's Educational Channel has uploaded a new video showing how he uses a Raspberry Pi to control a ceiling fan via it's wireless control signal. Back in January we posted about...
View ArticleReceiving Shortwave Radiograms with an RTL-SDR and MultiPSK
Shortwave Radiogram's are digital broadcasts of images, text and sometimes HTML files that are regularly broadcast on two shortwave radio stations, WRMI in Florida and WINB in Pennsylvania. The...
View ArticleGNU Radio Amateur Radio Meeting: A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio
Over on their YouTube channel GNU Radio have uploaded a recent talk by Aaron Rossetto titled "A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio". The talk explains the North American public safety P25 system in...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next video in his airband monitoring series. In this video Rob explains various airband communications that can be received from the airport, and...
View ArticleReceiving Video Directly from a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket + Scott Manley Video
Last week we posted about how several users on Reddit & Twitter worked together to receive and decode text telemetry from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch using a HackRF, 1.2m dish with custom...
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GPU Accelerated RTL-SDR Radio Interferometer Code For Radio Astronomy
Evan Mayer (@millijanskys) has recently released some code called “effex” that allows you to use two RTL-SDR dongles as an interferometer for radio astronomy and other experiments. The hardware used is...
View ArticleProject Horus 55: Live Video from a High Altitude Balloon
Project Horus 55 was a project that involved creating a high altitude balloon with payload that could broadcast live video down to ground station observers, as well as creating the ground station...
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Preorder Sale: Active L-Band 1525-1660 Inmarsat and Iridium Patch Back In...
We have just received stock of our new L-band active patch antenna design. The antenna is designed for receiving L-band satellites such as Inmarsat, Iridium, GPS and other satellites that transmit...
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SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite Successfully Launched and in Orbit
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting news about the successful launch and first reception of the SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite (which is only 5x5x5cm in size). The pre-launch press release...
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