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Exploring HD Radio and Other Signals While on Holiday
Over on his YouTube channel, Simon has uploaded a video showing how while on holiday he was able to explore the various HD Radio stations available around the USA. If you are in the USA, you might...
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Using the RTL-SDR Blog V3 as a DVB-T Receiver in OpenPli Enigma2
The RTL-SDR hardware began its life as a DVB-T TV receiver USB stick, but these days it is rarely used for this purpose. However, in countries where DVB-T hasn't been upgraded to DVB-T2 it is still...
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SignalsEverywhere: Using HackTV to Transmit Analog Television with a HackRF
Over on her YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Sarah has uploaded a new video showing how to use a program called 'hacktv-gui' to transmit analog TV signals using a HackRF software defined radio....
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Tech Minds: Reviewing the Raspberry Pi 5 For Radio Amateurs Book by Elektor
Over on the Tech Minds YouTube channel, Matt has uploaded a video where he reviews a new book by Elektor titled "Raspberry Pi 5 For Radio Amateurs" (€5 off coupon code "Techminds"). The book is all...
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Easvesdropping on HDMI with TEMPESTSDR and SDRplay
Over on YouTube "Sam's eXperiments logs" have uploaded a video showing how he was able to succeed when using TEMPESTSDR to eavesdrop on HDMI cables with his SDRplay. TEMPESTSDR software combined with a...
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Receiving Weather Images from NOAA Weather Satellites with an RTL-SDR Blog V4...
Over on YouTube Baltic Lab has uploaded a video showing how he was able to successfully use an RTL-SDR Blog V4 and the included multipurpose dipole antenna kit to receive images from polar-orbiting...
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Moving on from WXtoIMG for NOAA APT Weather Satellite Decoding
Thank you to Jacopo (@lego11/IU1QPT) and Robin (@OK2AWO) for writing in and sharing with us his thoughts about how the SDR community as a whole should move on from the use of WXtoIMG, and instead...
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ARMSDR.COM: Tracking Support for Windows 11 ARM64 Compatible SDR Applications
We've recently come across an X post by Jamie Vital who notes that he has created a site called armsdr.com which is dedicated to tracking which SDR-related software has support for Windows 11 on ARM64....
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SatDump 1.2.1 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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Guglielmo FM and DAB Receiver Software Updated to Version 0.6
Thank you to Marco, Guglielmo's programmer, for letting us know that his software has recently been updated to Version 0.6. Guglielmo is Linux, Windows (and, in this recent update, x86 MacOS) based...
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A Video on Radar-TUI: A Terminal User Interface Based ADS-B Display
Back in 2022 we first posted about adsb_deku and radar-tui, a TUI (terminal user interface) for displaying ADS-B aircraft locations with an RTL-SDR receiver. A terminal user interface means that no...
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Setting up an ADS-B Radar in a Vehicle Android Head Unit
Over on YouTube channel 'TAKEAPART' has uploaded a short video showing how he tracks aircraft via an RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongle and his car's Android head unit. The head unit is capable of running the...
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Setting up the Cheapest FlightAware ADS-B Feeder with RTL-SDR and Raspberry...
Over on his YouTube channel, TAKEAPART has recently uploaded a new video showing how to set up a cheap ADS-B FlightAware feeder using an RTL-SDR Blog dongle, and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. The Raspberry...
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DragonOS: Setting up AISMon with WINE and Virtual Audio Sink for HackRF and...
Over on his YouTube channel Aaron, creator of the DragonOS image (a Linux image with many built-in SDR compatible programs) has uploaded a new video showing how it is possible to run the Windows only...
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A SDR++ CSV to JSON Frequency Bookmark Converter Python Script
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Steve Hagerman for writing in and sharing his Python script that allows SDR++ users to convert a CSV file of frequency bookmark information into a JSON file that SDR++...
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PySpecSDR: A Text User Interface Based Python RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer and...
Over on GitHub a new open-source program called 'PySpecSDR' by [xqtr] has recently been released. This is a full multipurpose SDR receiver program like SDR# or SDR++, but with the difference that it...
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Open-Weather APT: Updates to the Web Based NOAA APT Image Decoder
Dr. Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer, the team behind the Open-Weather project have recently announced the launch of their new version of open-weather apt, a web-based NOAA APT image decoder. The...
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Receiving Starlink Signals with an RTL-SDR and Ku-Band LNB
Over on YouTube, dereksgc has uploaded a new video showing how to receive signals from Starlink satellites using an RTL-SDR and a standard Ku band LNB. Note that this setup simply receives the raw...
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A Tutorial on Setting up a XHSI Cockpit Display with Live Data from an...
Back in 2017, we first posted about using a program called RTL1090-XHSI which is used to display a simulated aircraft cockpit using live data acquired directly from an RTL-SDR receiving ADS-B flight...
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DragonBridge: Streaming IQ Data Over 802.11ah HaLow via Two Relay Drones
Aaron, creator of DragonOS, has uploaded a video on his YouTube channel showing him testing out long-range communications via 802.11ah Wireless Networking and a T-HaLow bridge on two drones. 802.11ah...
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