Building a GOES-16 Antenna out of Trash, Cardboard and Foil Tape
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he was able to modify and old DirectTV satellite dish found in the dumpster with cardboard and foil in order to receive...
View ArticleSDR# Updated: Improved Performance and Better RTL-SDR Compatibility
SDR# (SDRSharp) is one of the most popular free software defined radio programs available with RTL-SDR support. Recently it has been updated to version 1811 and the new version brings improved...
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NOAA-2 Returns from the Dead
Satellites can stay in orbit for years after their decommissioning date. Although they are turned off, often after many years they can turn on again as the battery chemicals begin to break down,...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring En Route Air Traffic Control, Oceanic Clearances,...
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded part three in his airband monitoring series. The the last video Rob discussed what communications can be received from the airport. In this weeks video Rob...
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Vector Measurements with an RTL-SDR and HackRF Based System
Over the course of 2020 Tomaž Šolc from Avian's Blog has been slowly working on an RTL-SDR based vector network analyzer system. The system currently consists of an ERASync Micro signal generator, a...
View ArticleTech Minds: Using BaseStation Software with any ADSB Hardware + XRange2...
BaseStation is an old ADS-B visualization program that was originally made to be used with BaseStation SBS receivers which were commonly used for ADS-B reception before the discovery of the RTL-SDR....
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Review of our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Patch Antenna
Over on YouTube Rob from Frugal Radio has uploaded a video reviewing our new L-Band Patch antenna which we released for sale late last month. The patch is currently on a release sale for US$44.95...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Video Now Encrypted
Back in early and mid March we posted about how several amateur radio hobbyists worked together to receive and figure out how to decode text telemetry as well as live video from SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Wireless Mesh Smart Meters with Software Defined Radio
Over on YouTube channel RECESSIM has uploaded a three part series on reverse engineering smart utility meters. In many locations wireless mesh smart electricity meters are installed in houses allowing...
View ArticleTwo reviews of our new L-Band Patch Antenna + Stock Update
Last month we released our new L-band active patch antenna for sale, and not too long after we had a review from Frugal Radio praising it. We now have two more YouTube reviews available to share. The...
View ArticleDragonOS: Now with RF Propagation and Calculation Tool
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR software packages. In the recent R14 Preview update, Aaron, the creator of DragonOS has added a new very useful...
View ArticleFeeding Audio from SDR# To Multiple PCs over TCP
Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting his latest video that shows us how to use a launcher that he's created called "GUI SDR TCP STREAMER" (which is actually a combination of several freeware Windows...
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STARWAVES DRM SoftRadio: A new Android DRM Decoder for RTL-SDR, Airspy, SDRPlay
A new RTL-SDR compatible DRM decoding Android app called "STARWAVES DRM SoftRadio" has recently been released on the Google Play store for US$5.49, and on Amazon DE for EUR4.49. The author notes that a...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring General Aviation VHF Communications
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next part his airband monitoring series. This episode covers the topic of monitoring General Aviation communications, which consists of communications...
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KrakenSDR: Passive Radar Demonstration
KrakenSDR is a 5-tuner coherent software defined radio based on RTL-SDR. It is the successor to the KerberosSDR and will be crowdfunded on Crowd Supply in a couple of months time. Please sign up to the...
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NRSC5-DUI: An Updated NRSC-5 HD Radio Decoder for RTL-SDR
Recently we've seen on GitHub the release of NRSC5-DUI, a fork of NRSC5-GUI which was the first fully functional RTL-SDR compatible HD Radio decoder that we posted about back in 2017. HD Radio is a...
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Gorizont Linux 2.0.4 Update
Thank you to Steve Cox, creator of the Gorizont Linux distribution for letting us know that the latest update is now out, although it is a small update only. Gorizont Linux is a custom distribution...
View ArticleSuperSDR: A KiwiSDR + CAT Client for Ham Radio
Thank you to Marco (IS0KYB) for informing us about the release of his new software called "SuperSDR". SuperSDR allows you to easily synchronize frequency tuning with a remote KiwiSDR via a CAT...
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Evil Crow RF: An Open Source CC1101 Based Device for Pentesting
The CC1101 is a popular RF silicon chip as it can handle many common digital modulation modes such as OOK/ASK, FSK, GFSK, and MSK within it's hardware. It is not a software defined radio, but rather a...
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Guglielmo: RTL-SDR FM + DAB Tuner Software for Linux
Thank you to Marco for submitting news about the release of his Linux based RTL-SDR FM and DAB tuner software package named Guglielmo. The code is based on the Qt-dab and sdr-j-fm packages, with some...
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