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FOSDEM 2024 Videos now Available: Synthetic Aperture WiFi RADAR, GPU DSP...
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer’s Meeting) is a yearly conference that took place in Brussels, Belgium on 3 - 4 February 2024. This conference featured a room on Software Defined Radio and...
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A Low Cost P25 Police Scanner with RTL-SDR, Raspberry Pi 5 and SDRTrunk
Thank you to Mike for writing in and sharing with us his video detailing how he makes use of a Raspberry Pi 5, touch LCD Screen and RTL-SDR to create a portable and low cost P25 police scanner. Mike...
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Canada Moves to Ban Flipper Zero and Possibly Software Defined Radios
Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister of Public safety has recently declared that they plan to ban devices "used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the...
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Windows Binary of GQRX Released
Gqrx has long been one of the most commonly used pieces of software defined radio software for Linux and MacOS. However, it has never had a Windows release until just two days ago when the team...
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WarDragon Passive Radar with Blah2 and ADS-B Delay-Doppler Truth
Over on his YouTube channel, Aaron, creator of DragonOS and the WarDragon kit has uploaded a video showing the Blah2 passive radar software working with an SDRplay RSPDuo. In the video Aaron shows some...
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SatDump V1.1.4 Released
SatDump is a popular program used to receive and decode images and other data from various weather satellites. SatDump works great RTL-SDR Blog dongles and with our Discovery Dish, an easy to use dish...
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IndiaRocketGirl Receives FengYun-2H S-VISSR Satellite Images
Over on her YouTube channel IndiaRocketGirl has posted a video showing how she was able to build a satellite dish and feed to receive FengYun-2H S-VISSR signals and get beautiful full disk images of...
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Tech Minds: Testing Meshtastic Compatible Lilygo LoRa Devices
In the latest video on the Tech Minds YouTube channel Matt tests out the Meshtastic software running on varius Lilygo LoRa devices. Meshtastic is software that can run on cheap LoRa hardware that...
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Meteor M2-4 Successfully Deployed to Orbit and now Transmitting Weather Images
The long awaited Russian Meteor M2-4 satellite was successfully launched on February 29, 2024 and is now in orbit, and is already transmitting images. If you are unfamiliar with them, Meteor M...
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Receiving SSTV From the Russian UmKA-1/RS40S Cubesat
YouTuber 'saveitforparts' was recently contacted by the ground controller of the Russian UmKA-1/RS40S cubesat asking if he'd like to try and receive an SSTV image from the satellite. UmKA-1/RS40S is a...
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WarDragon Running KrakenSDR to TAK Python and Federate TAK Server
Over on YouTube Aaron, creator of DragonOS and the WarDragon portable SDR kit has posted a video showing how he was able to set up an run the KrakenSDR to TAK python software, as well as a Federate TAK...
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KrakenSDR Radio Direction Finding Setup and Tutorial YouTube Video
Over on YouTube user Skyler F has posted a video showing him unboxing his KrakenSDR, and KrakenSDR antenna set, and then setting it up and taking it on a test to find the location of a cellular tower....
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IndiaRocketGirl Receives NOAA-19 Weather Satellite Images with a Tape Measure...
Over on her YouTube channel IndiaRocketGirl (@VU3BIZ) has posted a video showing how she was able to receive weather satellite images from the polar orbiting NOAA-19 weather satellite at 137 MHz. She...
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Saveitforparts: Building a Satellite Antenna from an Emergency Blanket and a...
Over on his YouTube channel, 'saveitforpaarts' has uploaded two new videos. The first shows how he was able to build a very cheap satellite antenna for GOES satellites out of an umbrella and a metallic...
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Doing 50 Things with RTL-SDR in One Week
Thank you to Blinry who recently wrote an article about how they set themselves a challenge to find 50 things to do with an RTL-SDR in one week. Blinry writes: Last week, I attempted the challenge to...
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Flipper Zero Starts a Petition To Fight Canada Ban
Back in early February we reported about how the Canadian government is making plans to completely ban the Flipper Zero, and popular pentesting tool. The wording from Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister...
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Saveitforparts: Receiving and Decoding L-Band Weather Satellites
Over on his YouTube channel 'saveitforparts' has uploaded a new video showing how he has been successful at receiving and decoding L-band weather satellites using his setup made from scavenged parts....
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PhantomSDR: WebSDR Software for the RX888 MKII
Recently Reddit user magicint1337 brought attention in a post to PhantomSDR, a web SDR program for the RX888 MKII SDR. PhantomSDR is not new, having been first uploaded to GitHub two years ago, but it...
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Testing a WiFi Grid Antenna for L-Band Satellites
Over on YouTube dereksgc has uploaded a video where he tests out a 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid antenna for L-band weather satellite reception. WiFi grid antennas are typically repurposed in the SDR community for...
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The Latest Talks from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
Over on YouTube a bunch of new talks from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) have recently been uploaded from their recent SARA Western Conference that was held in April 2024. The talks...
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