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SATRAN MK3 Antenna Rotator Hardware Kit Released
Back in January 2021 we posted about the release of the SATRAN product, which is a low cost automatic motorized satellite antenna rotator kit. The rotator is deigned to be used for pointing high gain...
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Frugal Radio KrakenSDR Part 1 – Unboxing, Antennas and Initial Setup
Over on the Frugal Radio YouTube channel Rob has uploaded part one of his two part series on the KrakenSDR. The KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for...
View ArticleRunning KrakenSDR on the Steam Deck
DragonOS creator Aaron has recently put out a few Tweets showing that he has been successful at getting his KrakenSDR to run on a Steam Deck. The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming device made by Valve,...
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IEEE Spectrum: Chasing Weather Balloons with Software Defined Radio
Electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has recently shared a story about how RTL-SDRs can be used for chasing weather balloons. With an RTL-SDR, antenna and appropriate decoding software, it is...
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KrakenSDR Locates a TETRA Transmitter
Over on YouTube F4IPO has posted a video of him using a KrakenSDR and the KrakenSDR Android mapping app to quickly locate the source of a TETRA transmission at 427 MHz in France. The KrakenSDR is our...
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An Inside Look into FlightAware’s RTL-SDR
Over on the FlightAware blog, Hardware and Software Engineers Eric Tran and Ziquan Wang have put up a blog post showing how they have designed the FlightAware RTL-SDR hardware and software, and detail...
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Open Source Military TAK Android App Supports RTL-SDR ADS-B Tracking
ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit) is an Android app used by some branches of the US military for visualizing geospatial information such as enemy and friendly positions, as well as any other...
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Frugal Radio KrakenSDR Part 2: Vehicle Direction Finding Tests
Over on the Frugal Radio YouTube channel Rob has uploaded part two of his two part series on the KrakenSDR. The KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for...
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SatDump ReWork Release with Significant Feature and GUI Updates
SatDump is a popular piece of software that can be used with RTL-SDRs and other software defined radios for decoding images from a wide array of weather imaging satellites including GOES, GK-2A, NOAA...
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Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has in the past created a portable homemade 'tricorder' which was a boxed up Raspberry Pi with multiple sensors including an RTL-SDR. One new application...
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Radio Jove Spectrograph Hardware and Software
NASA's Radio Jove is a project that enables students and amateur scientists from around the world to observe and analyze the HF radio emissions from Jupiter, our Sun and our galaxy using easy to...
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A Broad Overview About HF on the RTL-SDR Blog V3
Over on YouTube, Tom the Dilettante has uploaded a video demonstrating how to receive HF signals with an RTL-SDR Blog V3 running in direct sampling mode. This is something already known to most RTL-SDR...
View ArticleA WebUSB Based RTL-SDR Aircraft ADS-B Decoder
Over on GitHub @devdevcharlie has uploaded open source Javascript code for creating an ADS-B Aircraft Radar system entirely within a web browser. The code makes use of the Web USB API, which enables...
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HackRF Opera Cake Released: A Rapid RF Switching Board
Back in 2016 Michael Ossmann, founder of Great Scott Gadgets and creator of the HackRF released schematics for 'Opera Cake', a rapid RF switching add on board for the HackRF. We also saw back in a...
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ADS-B Radar Android App Updated with Open Street Maps
Thank you to James Mainwaring for letting us know about the latest update to his "ADS-B Radar (RTL-SDR)" Android App. The update brings an Open Street Map (OSM) display, allowing for aircraft to be...
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niliBOX: Software for Managing RTL-SDRs and other Radios Locally and Remotely
niliBOX is a multiplatform software package in beta release that can be used to manage radio devices such as Icom radio scanners and RTL-SDRs remotely or locally. It is the evolution of the older 'PCR...
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KrakenSDR Field Reports and Software Updates
We've recently published an update about KrakenSDR field reports and software updates to our KrakenSDR CrowdSupply page. We are cross posting here as well. This update provides some demonstrations of...
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Guglielmo FM and DAB Receiver Software Updated to V0.4
Thank you to Marco Greco for writing in and noting that V0.4 of his Guglielmo software has recently been released. Guglielmo is a Linux (and now Windows) based RTL-SDR FM and DAB tuner software that...
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Car Hacking in the Mr Robot TV Show Explained
Over on YouTube David Bombal has uploaded a video titled "Warning! This is how cars are hacked. Just like in Mr Robot." which explains how the car hacking scenes in Mr Robot worked. Mr Robot is a TV...
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IEEE Article on Passive Radar with the KrakenSDR
The IEEE Spectrum magazine is a print and online magazine by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a professional society for electric and electronics engineers. In the November...
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