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Receiving X-Band Images from the Arktika-M1 Arctic Monitoring Satellite
Recently on Twitter @arvedviehweger (Arved) has tweeted that he has successfully received images from the Russian Arctic monitoring satellite known as ARKTIKA-M1, via it's X-band downlink at 7865 MHz....
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An APRS Tracker with HackRF, WebUSB and WASM
Thank you to Radoslav Gerganov for writing in and submitting news about the release of his open source web-based APRS tracker named "aprs-sdr". The web based software turns a HackRF device into a...
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Observing the NML Cygni Red Supergiant Star with an Airspy Mini SDR and Home...
Job Genheniau's projects have been featured several times on this blog in the past for imaging the Milkyway and other astronomical objects like supernova's and protostar regions with a 1.8m...
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Remoticon 2021: Smart Meter Hacking Talk
Remoticon 2021 was an online conference held in November 2021 and videos of presentations have recently been uploaded to the Hackaday YouTube channel this month. One very interesting talk was the...
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Reverse Engineering a 30 Year Old Wireless Garage Door Opener with a HackRF...
At his childhood home Maxwell Dulin discovered that his garage door was controlled by a 30 year old system called the "Sears Craftsman 139.53708 Garage Door Remote". Being interested in SDRs Maxwell...
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Frugal Radio: Testing a Loop on Ground Antenna with an Airspy HF+ Discovery
The KK5JY Loop on Ground (LoG) antenna is a 15 feet per side square loop designed for reception of HF and lower. It simply consists of an isolation transformer and wire that as the name implies is...
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Video Tutorial: Decoding HD Radio on Windows with nrsc5-gui
Thank you to "Double A" for submitting his video that shows how to install and run the RTL-SDR compatible HD Radio decoder nrsc5-gui on a Windows machine. We've posted about nrsc5-gui and the modified...
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SDR++ Server Beta Now Available
SDR++ is a general purpose receiver program compatible with almost any software defined radio including the RTL-SDR. Recent developments have seen the author release a beta of "SDR++ server" which is...
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New GNU Radio Beginners Tutorials Available
A new set of beginners tutorials for the GNU Radio platform have been released on the GNU Radio Wiki. GNU Radio is an open source development toolkit for signals processing and is commonly used to...
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Tech Minds: 10 Common Mistakes Made With Software Defined Radio
Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel has recently uploaded a video highlighting 10 common mistakes made with software defined radio. The topics go over software choices, driver installation, coax...
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Turbine: Capture and Stream all Frequencies in a Trunked Radio System with a...
Over on Reddit we've discovered an interesting program called 'Turbine' that has recently been open sourced by the author. This program connects to a wideband capable SDR such as a HackRF and captures...
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Demonstrating the New 3D Maps in SDRAngel
In December of last year we posted about a video demonstrating the many features that the SDRAngel software comes standard with. Recently they've added a new feature which are 3D maps that can be used...
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rsadsb: Terminal Based Aircraft Radar on the Raspberry Pi
Thank you to Wayne Campbell for submitting news about the release of the latest 0.5.0 iteration of his RTL-SDR compatible 'rsadsb' software package that plots ADS-B aircraft positions on a terminal...
View ArticleGlobal Area Coverage (GAC) Images Decoded from NOAA Satellites
Thank you to @ZSztanga and @aang254 for submitting news about their recent success at decoding the L-Band Global Area Coverage (GAC) signal from polar orbiting NOAA satellites. GAC images are low...
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New HAM FM and ADS-B Radar Android Apps
Thank you to James Mainwaring for submitting news about the release of his two new RTL-SDR compatible Android Apps "Ham FM Radio (RTL-SDR)" and "ADS-B Radar (RTL-SDR)". The Ham FM Radio app allows the...
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DAB+ Decoder Welle.io Version 2.4 Released and YouTube Demonstration Video
Version 2.4 of the RTL-SDR compatible DAB/DAB+ decoder called welle.io has recently been released for download on GitHub. The main changes include various bug fixes, the addition of Windows 11 support,...
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Open-Weather: Contribute to a Snapshot of the Climate Crisis Through NOAA...
Open-weather is an art project made up of a community of volunteers who capture NOAA weather satellite images with RTL-SDR or similar devices. The images are then collected and stitched together to...
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Running an RTL-SDR on an old OpenWRT Router
With the rising cost of computing hardware like Raspberry Pi's, Jaime Badillo decided to instead make use of one of a cheap old router, and set it up as an RTL-SDR server. To do this, Jaime took his...
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Gorizont Linux Updated to 2022.1 Edition
Thank you to Steve Cox, creator of the Gorizont Linux distribution for letting us know that is has now been updated to the 2022.1 Edition. Gorizont-linux is an RTL-SDR focused Linux distribution based...
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SignalsEverywhere: Measuring Filters with RTL-SDR, a Noise Source and Spektrum
In her latest video Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel describes how it is possible to use an RTL-SDR to measure RF filters when combined with a noise source and the Spektrum SDR...
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