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SignalsEverywhere: Playing Classic Games over Amateur Radio with NPR-70...
Over on her YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Sarah has uploaded a new video that shows us how TCP/IP connections can be made over the amateur radio spectrum using low cost NPR-70 TCP/IP modems that...
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Frugal Radio: Experimenting with Rdio-Scanner and Trunk Recorder on P25 LSM
In his latest video Rob from the Frugal Radio YouTube channel has uploaded a video where he experiments with a SDR web interface and smartphone App called "Rdio-scanner". Rdio-scanner is an interface...
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Feeding ACARS Data to Airframes.io
Thank you to a contributor for submitting an article about Airframes.io, which is an ACARS/VDL2/HFDL/Satellite ACARS aggregation site. The article below it attributed to Kevin Elliot and was edited by...
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Probing a Cable Internet + TV Line with RTL-SDR USB
Thank you to Adam from Double A Labs for submitting his latest YouTube video where he uses his RTL-SDR to probe the coaxial cable that provides his broadband internet and cable TV. In the video Adam...
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TechMinds: Testing the ISM Packet Decoder Plugin for SDR Sharp
Over on the TechMinds YouTube channel Matt has uploaded a video demonstrating the use of the ISM Packet Decoder plugin for SDR# which was released a few months ago. The plugin authors website also...
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An Improved ExtIO for RTL_TCP
Back in 2020 we posted about a modified ExtIO interface which exposed advanced RTL-SDR driver settings such as decimation, manual gain and tuner bandwidth and filtering controls. These features allow...
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MagicSDR: Streaming Audio over UDP to Decoders like Multimon-NG
Back in May 2021 we first posted about the release of MagicSDR, which is an Android and iOS SDR app that receives data from an rtl_tcp server elsewhere on your network. Apart from the RTL-SDR, MagicSDR...
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TechMinds: Using a LEO Bodnar GPSDO with a PlutoSDR
Over on the TechMinds YouTube channel Matt has been experimenting with using a PlutoSDR for QO-100 amateur radio satellite communications. The PlutoSDR is a low cost RX/TX capable SDR with up to 56 MHz...
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SelfieStick: Combining noisy signals from multiple NOAA APT satellites for...
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have recently presented a paper detailing how they combined noisy signals from multiple passes of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites NOAA 15, NOAA 18 and NOAA...
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APT_COLOR: Add False Color to Black and White NOAA APT Images
Thank you to Sasha for submitting news about the release of their latest application called "apt_color". The most popular application for decoding APT weather satellite images from NOAA polar orbiting...
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Decoding Inmarsat STD-C with Command Line Decoder STDCDEC and SigDigger
Over on his YouTube channel Aaron has uploaded a video showing how to use SigDigger and a C based command line Inmarsat STD-C decoder called 'stdcdec' together on his DragonOS SDR based Linux OS image....
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SI-SDR-UG Recorded Livestream: Corey Explains DF-Aggregator for KrakenSDR and...
The South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG) have recently held their fourth live stream conference. This conference included some interesting talks such as: "Introduction to GNU Radio Series, Part 2"...
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WiFi Grid RTL-SDR Radio Telescopes featured in SARA2022 Conference Talks
Over on YouTube the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers have recently uploaded talks from their SARA 2022 online conference. Two of the talks we've seen focus on describing results produced by small...
View ArticleSDR# Co-Channel Canceller and Micro Tuner Updates
SDRSharp (SDR#) is one of the most popular SDR programs that is used often with Airspy and RTL-SDR devices. Recently Youssef, the developer of Airspy products and the programmer behind SDR# has again...
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SunFounder TS7-Pro Touch Screen Review: Building a Portable RTL-SDR Pi 4 System
The SunFounder TS7-Pro 7-Inch Touch Display is a portable high resolution 1024x600 7-inch touch screen with space on the back for a Raspberry Pi 4 to be mounted. It is also possible to mount an...
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An off-grid wind and solar powered APT/LRPT satellite image receiver with...
Over on the usradioguy.com blog, Carl Reinemann has highlighted a very impressive remote off-grid radio satellite image receiver setup by Manuel Lausmann (DO3MLA). The setup consists of two Raspberry...
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Open-Weather: A Browser Based NOAA APT Satellite Image Decoder
Thank you to Sasha Engelmann for letting us know about the release of the Open-Weather community's web browser based NOAA APT decoder. The decoder allows for easy NOAA satellite decoding by allowing...
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Using RTL-SDR to Detect Weak Vibrations in Nanomechanical Resonators Based on...
Thank you to Joel Moser who has submitted news about his teams scientific research work at Soochow University in Suzhou, near Shanghai, China which makes use of RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongles in their...
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Tracking and Decoding Guide for NOAA Weather Satellites
Thank you to Samual Yanz (N7FNV) for submitting a guide that he's created about tracking and decoding NOAA weather satellites. The guide can be downloaded from this link as a PDF. Currently there are...
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KrakenSDR now Shipped to the Majority of Crowd Supply Backers
If you weren't aware of it, KrakenSDR is our RTL-SDR spinoff project and is a 5-channel coherent RTL-SDR that we have successfully crowdfunded for over on Crowd Supply. KrakenSDR is the successor to...
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