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RTL433 Plugin for SDR# Now Available
Recently Marc has released his RTL433 plugin for SDR# over on GitHub and his Wixsite. RTL433 is a commonly used RTL-SDR command line program that provides decoders for a wide range of 433.92 MHz, 868...
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MagicSDR: A new Android and iOS RTL_TCP Client
Unlike Android devices, Apple iOS devices can't run RTL-SDRs directly through their USB ports. However, they can still connect to another networked device such as a PC or Raspberry Pi running an...
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Receiving Unintentionally Radiated Signals from the Computer System Bus with...
Back in 2018 we first posted about "System Bus Radio" which is code and a web based app that allows you to transmit RF directly from your computer without any transmitting hardware. It works on the...
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Raspberry-NOAA V2: Raspberry Pi Automated NOAA and Meteor Weather Satellite...
Raspberry-NOAA is open source code and a set of scripts that allows you to set up a Raspberry Pi as an automated NOAA and Meteor weather satellite station with an SDR like an RTL-SDR. The software...
View ArticleCloning A Garage Key with RTL-SDR, Universal Radio Hacker and an Arduino
Over on YouTube Adam Łoboda has uploaded a video showing the full steps that he's taken to reverse engineer and clone a wireless garage door key using an RTL-SDR and Arduino. He starts by using the...
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yellowShoes: A Browser Based HD Radio / NRSC-5 User Interface
Thank you to Evuraan for writing in and sharing his new browser based HD Radio / NRSC-5 interface for the nrsc5 decoder which he has called yellowShoes. HD Radio is a digital broadcast protocol...
View ArticleExploring 433 MHz Devices in the Neighborhood with RTL-SDR and rtl_433
Over on his YouTube channel CWNE88 has posted how he has been using and RTL-SDR with the rtl_433 software to explore the data coming in from various 433 MHz ISM band devices in his neighborhood. In the...
View ArticleBuilding an Automated NOAA and Meteor Weather Satellite Image Collector with...
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he has built an automated weather satellite image collector for the NOAA APT and Meteor M2 LRPT satellites. The video shows a...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring HF Aviation Voice Communications with your SDR Radio...
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next episode in his excellent YouTube series on Aviation monitoring. In this episode Rob covers HF aviation communications. Rob writes: Whether you are...
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A Hi-Z to 50 Ohm Impedance Matching Transformer for Improving HF/SW Reception
Thank you to Mitsunobu for writing in and sharing news about the release of his new product which is a Hi-Z (high impedance) to 50 Ohm matching transformer. This transformer allows you to use small...
View ArticleTransmitting ggwave Sound Encoded Messages with a HackRF SDR
Thanks to Rado for submitting his news about the release of his project called "ggwave-fm" which allows transmitting of ggwave encoded messages with an SDR. The idea behind the original ggwave is to...
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Frugal Radio: A Review of the NooElec Inmarsat Patch Antenna Bundle
In his latest video Rob from Frugal Radio has reviewed the NooElec Inmarsat Patch Antenna Bundle. The US$79.95 bundle includes a PCB patch antenna, Inmarsat SAWBird LNA, SMA DC Block, SMA Barrel...
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European GNU Radio Days: Presentation on gr-rpitx
J.-M Friedt has created a block for GNU Radio called gr-rpitx which allows a Raspberry Pi to be used directly as an output RF sink in GNU Radio. If you were unaware, RPiTX is software that allows you...
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Tech Minds: Remote SDR V2 with Orange Pi and Transmit Capable
In his latest YouTube video Tech Minds explains and demonstrates Remote SDR V2, which is software that allows you to easily remotely access either a PlutoSDR, HackRF or RTL-SDR software defined radio....
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Decoding and Logging GPS Coordinates From Wireless Smart Meters
Back in April we posted about "Hash's" RECESSIM YouTube series on hacking electricity smart meters using a software defined radio. Recently his series continues with a video on decoding and logging the...
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Decoding NOAA on an Debian Chrooted Android Smartphone
Over on Reddit Ian Grody (u/DutchOfBurdock) has posted about his success in using a modded Android smartphone to run an RTL-SDR Blog V3 and NOAA decoder software all within the phone itself. In the...
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A KerberosSDR Based Radio Direction Finding RC Boat
If you weren't already aware KerberosSDR is our 4-channel phase coherent capable RTL-SDR unit that we previously crowdfunded back in 2018. With a 4-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR interesting...
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Frugal Radio: How To Decode L band Satellite ACARS and CPDLC messages with...
In the latest episode of his YouTube series on Aviation monitoring Rob explores how to decode L-band satellite ACARS (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System) and CPDLC (Controller Pilot...
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SDR4Space: Software Tools for SDR Based Satellite Ground Stations
Over on Reddit we've seen that SDR4Space, a provider of a satellite ground station receiver hardware and software has released a free feature limited lite version of their embedded software over on...
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LibreCellular: Easy 4G Cellular Network with LimeSDR and Intel NUC
We recently came across the LibreCellular project which is aiming to make it easy to implement 4G cellular networks with open source software and low cost SDRs. The project appears to be in the early...
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