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Updates on using an RTL-SDR for GPS on a High Powered Rocket
Back in April we posted about Philip Hahn and Paul Breed’s experiments to use an RTL-SDR for GPS logging on their high powered small rockets. As GPS is owned by the US military, a standard GPS module...
View ArticleFixing a long active USB Cable for RTL-SDR Use
Active USB cables allow cable lengths to be stretched to much longer than the maximum length of 5m allowed by the USB specification. However, although the packet timing requirements are met by the...
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RTL-SDR Blog SDR Unit Sale!
As many of you know we have been working on releasing a new revision of our RTL-SDR Blog SDR units for the last few months. We are a few weeks away from being able to release news about this new unit...
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Decoding a Garage Door Opener with an RTL-SDR
After listening to dock workers with his RTL-SDR for a few days, RTL-SDR.com reader Eoin decided that he wanted to try a more practical experiment. He decided to see if he could reverse engineering the...
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RTLSDR4Everyone: Review of the Nooelec SMArt SDR, Direct Sampling and Generic...
RTL-SDR enthusiast and blogger Akos has recently uploaded three new articles. In his first article he discusses what he believes is the differences and advantages of Generic vs Premium branded RTL-SDR...
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A Guide to Listening to CB Radio with an RTL-SDR Dongle
In the June edition of The Spectrum Monitor, SDR enthusiast and ham Mario Filippi N2HUN published an article titled “Your New CB ‘Good Buddy’, the SDR Dongle”. While the CB radio heyday is well and...
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IBM’s Horizon Decentralized Autonomous Edge Compute using RTL-SDR
IBM’s “Horizon” is an Internet of Things (IoT) networking technology based on decentralized peer to peer technologies that are already used in successful apps like BitCoin and BitTorrent. It works by...
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RTLSDR4Everyone: Avoiding RTL-SDR Rip Off’s Part 2
Over on his blog Akos has uploaded a new post that discusses the topic of avoiding RTL-SDR rip off’s on sites like eBay. On auction sites there are many dishonest sellers who sell or resell items at...
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rx_tools: RTL-SDR Command Line Tools (rtl_power, rtl_fm, rtl_sdr) Now...
Developer R. X. Seger has recently released rx_tools which provides SDR independent ports for the popular command line RTL-SDR tools rtl_power, rtl_fm and rtl_sdr. This means that these tools can now...
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Kukuruku: A new SDR client that supports RTL-SDR
A new general purpose SDR software package called “Kukuruku” has recently been released. It appears to be a Linux only based client which is based on GNURadio. The authors write that they have several...
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ADS-B Traffic Analytics with Valo and an RTL-SDR
Valo is a software service for real time big data streaming analytics of data from many sensors. On their website they explain their service as follows. Valo is a single platform for streaming (real...
View ArticleGSM Sniffing: A Full YouTube Tutorial
Over on YouTube user Crazy Danish Hacker has been working on uploading an entire series on GSM Sniffing with an RTL-SDR. His series is explained in a slow and clear presenting style, and it starts at...
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NooElec RTL-SDR Giveaway on AmateurRadio.com
AmaateurRadio.com and NooElec are currently running a big competition to give away 50 of their new SMA RTL-SDR dongles (branded as NooElec SMArt). To enter simply go to the competition post on...
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Building a DIY DC Block for Bias Tee’s
One handy thing about using our bias tee enabled RTL-SDR dongles is that you can easily power a remote LNA, such as Adam’s LNA4ALL. The bias tee sends DC power down the coax cable eliminating the need...
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RTLSDR4Everyone Four New Posts: Janilab Preamp Review, Why Use a Preamp?,...
Akos from the RTLSDR4Everyone blog has recently posted three new articles. The first article reviews the Janilab LNA Preamp which has a frequency range of 1 MHz to 3 GHz and an adjustable gain. In the...
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Receiving DAB with a Raspberry Pi 3 and RTL-SDR
Over on his blog Michael Carden has produced a tutorial showing us how to use SDR-J on the Raspberry Pi 3 for receiving Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio. DAB is a type of digital broadcast radio...
View ArticleUsing a Yardstick One, HackRF and Inspectrum to Decode and Duplicate an OOK...
Over on his YouTube channel user Gareth has uploaded a video that shows a full tutorial on quickly decoding an On Off Keyed (OOK) signal with a HackRF (or RTL-SDR) and the Inspectrum software. Once...
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New Outernet Products For Sale: E4000 RTL-SDR, L-Band Patch Antenna, L-Band LNA
Outernet is a new satellite service that aims to be a free “library in the sky”. They continuously broadcast services such as news, weather, videos and other files from satellites. Their aim is to...
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Unlocking Almost Any Vehicle with an SDR or Arduino
Earlier this week wired.com released a story indicating that researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered two vulnerabilities that can be used to unlock almost any car. The first...
View ArticleAn AIS Decoder for MATLAB and the RTL-SDR
RTL-SDR.com reader Mike wrote in to us today to let us know that he has released his AIS decoder for MATLAB and the RTL-SDR. MATLAB is a technical computing language used by many scientists and...
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