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Saveitforparts: Building an L-Band Satellite Antenna out of an Umbrella
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has uploaded a video where he uses an umbrella, pin tin and tin foil tape to create a simple dish antenna for receiving GOES, NOAA and METEOR HRPT...
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SDRSharp Controller Plugin: Control SDRSharp via any USB Hardware Controller
Thank you to Alan De Windt who has submitted news about the release of his latest SDR# Plugin called "SDRSharp Controller". Alan writes that this is a plugin that is "similar to the existing SDRSharp...
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Lab401: HackRF on Windows YouTube Tutorials
Over on the Lab401 YouTube channel, 'RocketGod' has uploaded three videos that are various tutorials for the HackRF on Windows. The first video covers the basics like installing software and shows how...
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A Technical Overview of the Watch Duty Wildfire Monitoring Project Powered by...
Previously in 2022 we posted about Watch Duty, a nonprofit organization aiming to improve access to live public safety information regarding wildfires in California. Several populated regions of...
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Modifying a 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid Antenna for Improved 1.7 GHz Reception + DIY...
People have had much success in receiving L-band weather satellites like GOES and polar orbiting HRPT satellites using 2.4 GHz WiFi grid dishes, even though their 1.7 GHz signals are considered out of...
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TotalPower: Windows Program for Hydrogen Line Detection and Analysis with an...
Thank you to Mario A. Natali (I0NAA) who wrote in an wanted to share his Windows software called TotalPower which is designed for mapping the galactic Hydrogen line and works with RTL-SDR dongles. The...
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Crowd Supply Discovery Dish Teardown Session: Thursday 30 November Noon PST
Crowd Supply is hosting Teardown Session 38 on Thursday 3- November at Noon PST time which will feature the Discovery Dish. Join us for this livestream where I will be talking about and showing the...
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Tech Minds: Make your own Aircraft Tracking Antenna with RTL-SDR
Over on the Tech Minds YouTube channel Matt has posted a video tutorial that shows how to build a cheap quarter wave ground plane antenna tuned for 1090 MHz. This is the frequency of ADS-B (Automatic...
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DATV-Red: An Interface for Controlling PlutoSDR in Node-RED
Thank you to Ohan Smit (ZS1SCI) for submitting news that he has published his software called DATV-Red over on GitHub. The software is open source and is design to be an interface for controlling a...
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Downloading Stored Images and Data from the NOAA Weather Satellite GAC Broadcast
With polar orbiting weather satellite reception we as amateur ground station operators with SDR receivers typically download images via "Direct Broadcast", which provides imagery of what the satellite...
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Tech Minds: Making your own SDR Software With GNU Radio Companion
In his latest video out on YouTube, Matt from the Tech Minds channel gives us an overview of GNU Radio, and shows a few examples of how it can be used to receive, transmit and decode digital data. GNU...
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A WSPR Monitor Running on an old Android TV Box with OpenWebRX and RTL-SDR
Thank you to Joseph IT9YBG for writing in and sharing with us his experience in getting Armbian and OpenWebRX running with an RTl-SDR V3 smoothly on an old A95X Android TV Box. These TV Boxes have an...
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Modified RTL-SDR Source for SDR++ with Manual Controls for R820T/2/R828D...
Over on GitHub user Sultan-papagani has just released a modified RTL-SDR source for SDR++ that enables full manual control of the gain stages, filters and other features on R820T/2/R828D tuner based...
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DJI DroneID Detection Running on the AntSDR E200 CPU
DJI is a major manufacturer of consumer drones and their drones implement an RF protocol called DroneID which is designed to transmit the position of the drone and operator to authorized entities such...
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Tech Minds: Video on DJI Drone Detection on the AntSDR E200
Just recently we posted about the release of some firmware for the AntSDR E200 which allows it to decode DJI DroneID. DroneID is a protocol designed to transmit the position of the drone and operator...
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Building a Drone Tracking Radar with the ADALM-PHASER and PlutoSDR
The ADALM-PHASER is a kit designed to provide experience with phased array beamforming and radar concepts. The kit consists of a PlutoSDR, mixers, LO synthesizer, ADAR1000 beamformer chip, LNAs and...
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A Tribute to Amateur Radio Astronomer Job Geheniau (Job’s Radio Telescope)
Job Geheniau was someone whose amateur radio astronomy projects were often featured on RTL-SDR Blog (often referred to as Job's Radio Telescope). It with great sadness that we have recently learned...
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SDR++ Android APK now supports the RTL-SDR Blog V4
Thank you to SDR++ developer Ryzerth who has let us know that RTL-SDR Blog V4 support has recently been added to the nightly build of the APK. With this release, Android is now fully supported by the...
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Multiple Comprehensive Tutorials on Weather Satellite Decoding
Over on his website "Jacopo's Lair" IU1QPR (@original_lego11) who is also a developer for SatDump has written up many tutorials about weather satellite decoding that involve the use of SatDump. SatDump...
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A KrakenSDR to TAK Interface Converter
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Aaron, who recently found a Kraken-to-TAK converter made by "SignalMedic" and "dngrssgnls" which converts the KrakenSDR bearing output data to "Cursor on Target" (COT)...
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