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Detecting meteor radio echoes using the RTL-SDR USB dongle
At the recent 2015 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Conference Ciprian Sufitchi (N2YO) presented a paper titled “Detecting meteor radio echoes using the RTL/SDR USB dongle” (pdf). His paper...
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International Space Station set to Transmit SSTV this Weekend (July 18 – 19)
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission the International Space Station (ISS) is set to transmit 12 Slow Scan TV (SSTV) images this weekend. The images are set to transmit...
View ArticleUni-SDR Link: Control SDR Console V2 with Unitrunker
A new program called Uni-SDR Link has just been released. This software allows Unitrunker to control SDR-Console V2. Unitrunker is software that allows you to follow trunked voice conversations, and...
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RTL-gopow: New heat map tool
Rtl_power is a tool that allows you to create wide band signal strength heat maps over a long length of time. It works by very quickly hopping across the spectrum, capturing the RTL-SDR bandwidth of...
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New Raspberry PI Remote RTL-SDR GUI Software: MNM4SDR
Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Slaven Krilic wrote in to use to announce his project called MNM4SDR which stands for Monitoring Network Manager for RTL-SDR. The software allows you to set up a remote...
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Decoding Public Utility Meters with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube a talk about decoding water and electricity usage meters with an RTL-SDR has been uploaded from the 2015 Camp++ conference in Hungary. The presenter, Stef writes: Budapest public...
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Wirelessly transmitting sound from a parabolic microphone with an FM...
Parabolic microphones allow listeners to clearly hear sounds from far away. They are often used by bird call enthusiasts and also probably by spies. A parabolic microphone works by using a dish to...
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Ham2Mon: A NBFM Multi-Channel Receiver Compatible with the RTL-SDR
A new piece of software called ham2mon by programmer Louis Brown (KD4HSO) has been released. This is a GNU Radio Linux based program that can be used with an RTL-SDR or other SDR that is compatible...
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An Alternative NOAA Weather Satellite Tutorial using RTL_FM and WxToImg
The RTL-SDR software defined radio is often used to receive signals from NOAA APT weather satellites. Once decoded these signals produce a freshly captured image of the earth over your current...
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Outernet “Lighthouse” Receiver now for sale
Although this isn’t directly SDR related, this story may still be of interest to some readers. The Outernet project have just put on sale their first receiver which is called the Lighthouse. The...
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi based APRS RX IGate with an RTL-SDR
Recently amateur radio hobbyist WB20SZ wrote in to us to let us know about his work with creating an easy to build receive only APRS internet gateway (IGate) with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR dongle. The...
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Creating a FIS-B ADS-B Weather Information Receiver for Pilots with an RTL-SDR
Recently a pilot wrote in to let us know about how he’s been using his RTL-SDR to receive real time FIS-B ADS-B weather updates in ForeFlight while flying in his plane. ForeFlight is an iOS app for...
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Creating a low cost Ozone Spectrometer out of RTL-SDR’s to measure...
Over at the MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford Massachusetts, researchers O.B Alam and A.E.E Rogers have been working on creating a low cost ground based Ozone spectrometer out of RTL-SDR dongles...
View ArticleA tutorial on using RDS Spy with the SDR# MPX Output Plugin
Over on YouTube user pe1etr has uploaded a tutorial video showing how to set up RDS Spy and SDR# for monitoring RDS. RDS stands for Radio Data System and is a sub carrier added to some FM broadcast...
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A Tutorial on Decoding NOAA and Meteor M2 Weather Satellite Images in Ubuntu
Recently an RTL-SDR.com reader by the name of Pete wrote in to let us know about a comprehensive tutorial that he has written about setting up NOAA and Meteor M2 weather satellite decoding in Ubuntu...
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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Decoding Inmarsat STD-C EGC Messages
Inmarsat is a communications service provider with several geostationary satellites in orbit. They provide services such as satellite phone communications, broadband internet, and short text and data...
View ArticleA new AIS Decoder for the RTL-SDR on Android
A reader of our blog, EBC81, has written in to let us know about a new RTL-SDR based AIS decoder that he has written for the Android OS. AIS stands for Automatic Identification System and is used by...
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Reverse Engineering Bus Telemetry Data with an RTL-SDR
Bastian recently wrote into us at RTL-SDR.com to let us know that he’s been working on reverse engineering the bus telemetry system used in his hometown of Paderborn, Germany. Bus telemetry is often...
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Detecting Pulsars (Rotating Neutron Stars) with an RTL-SDR
The RTL-SDR has been used for some time now as an amateur radio astronomy tool. Radio astronomers Peter W East and GM Gancio have recently uploaded a paper that details their experiments with detecting...
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ADS-B On Android App Now Supports 978 MHz FIS-B NEXRAD Weather and Traffic
The “ADS-B on Android” app has been updated and now supports the reception and display of 978 MHz UAT FIS-B Weather and Traffic data. The app also receives ADS-B data as per normal. To use the app you...
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