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Setting up a FLARM Receiver with an RTL-SDR and Orange Pi Zero: Tracking...
Most people already know about ADS-B aircraft tracking, but few know about FLARM (FLight AlaRM). FLARM is a low cost and low power consumption ADS-B alternative which is often used by small aircraft...
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Aerial TV: Android RTL-SDR DVB-T Decoder Officially Released
Last month we posted about Aerial TV, a new Android based DVB-T decoder that works with RTL-SDR dongles. Back then the app was still in beta testing and had a few operational bugs. Now the Aerial TV...
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Low Power RTL-SDR ‘Stratux’ Dongles Now Available in our Store
Over on our store we now have a limited amount of “Low Power V2” RTL-SDR dongles available for sale for $16.95 USD incl. free international shipping. These are dongles that were produced for the...
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Contributing ADS-B Data to RadarBox with an RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi
RadarBox.com is an ADS-B aggregator which is very similar to other aggregators like FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com. These services use ADS-B data provided from volunteers all around the world to...
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An Overview of Neutron Star Group Pulsar Detection Projects with the RTL-SDR
Earlier in April we posted about Hannes Fasching (OE5JFL)’s work in detecting pulsars with an RTL-SDR. Thanks to Steve Olney (VK2XV), administrator of the Neutron Star Group for pointing out that there...
View ArticleUsing SDR# and the Fast Scanner Plugin for Wide Band Scanning
Over on Tom’s Radio Room Show (TRRS) on YouTube Tom has uploaded a video showing how to use SDR# together with Vasili’s Fast Scanner plugin. Fast Scanner is a plugin for SDR# that allows you to use...
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An RTL-SDR Add-on for the Kodi Entertainment System Software
Kodi is a media player and entertainment hub program that is used to manage digital video collections and music. It is used mostly on TV’s together with a home theater PC, or Raspberry Pi 3, but also...
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A Screenshot based Meteor Scatter Detector for HDSDR
Over on our forums Andy (M0CYP) has posted about his new meteor scatter detection program which works with HDSDR and any supported SDR like an RTL-SDR. It works in an interesting way, as instead of...
View ArticleDecoding ADS-B in MATLAB Video Tutorial
Over on YouTube the official MATLAB channel has uploaded a new video that is a tutorial on setting up ADS-B decoding in MATLAB. MATLAB is a technical computing language that is frequently used by many...
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A 3D Printed Case for the DIY Outernet Kit
Thanks to Manuel (aka Tysonpower) for writing in and sharing his 3D printed ‘Universal Outernet Case’. Outernet is a satellite file casting service that uses an RTL-SDR based solution for reception....
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QIRX SDR: A New MultiMode RTL-SDR Program with Built-In DAB+ Decoder
Recently Clem from softsyst.com wrote in and let us know about their new SDR software called ‘QIRX SDR’. This is a multimode receiver currently capable of receiving AM/NFM/WFM and also DAB Plus. It...
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Radio For Everyone: An Easy ADS-B Antenna, ADS-B Advice, and Long Term Results
Over on his blog Akos has uploaded several new posts all relating to ADS-B reception. His first post shows how to build a very simple yet effective “Coketenna” ADS-B antenna which can be built with an...
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RTL-SDR.com Presentation Slides from Hamvention
During this years 2017 Hamvention convention I was invented by TAPR to present three talks about the RTL-SDR. Several people who watched the talks have requested the slides, so they are uploaded here...
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DAB/DAB+ Decoder Software “Welle.io” Now Available on Android
Back in March of this year we posted about “Welle.io”, a DAB/DAB+ decoder that supports the RTL-SDR and other SDRs like the Airspy. It was available for Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi 2/3. Albrecht...
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Nigun Downconverter PCB Completed
We last posted about Nigun back in January 2017, and at that point the schematic design had just been completed. Nigun is a downconverter which can be used to allow the RTL-SDR and other SDRs to...
View ArticleComprehensive Video Guide to Trunking and Digital Voice with the RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user AVT Marketing has uploaded a five part video series that very clearly and slowly shows how to use an RTL-SDR to set up trunking and digital voice monitoring. In the videos he uses...
View ArticleDecoding the LilacSat-1 FM to Digital Voice Transponder
LilacSat-1 is an educational CubeSat built by students from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China. It was recently launched from the ISS on 25 May 2017 as part of the QB50 science...
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Detecting Pulsars with a Circularly Polarized Yagi and an RTL-SDR
Steve Olney VK2XV is the creator and administrator of the Neutron Star Group website which collects a listing of confirmed amateur attempts at pulsar detection, many of which have been made with a...
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Signal Reverse Engineering Tool DSpectrum Upgraded to DSpectrumGUI
DSpectrum is a reverse engineering tool that aims to make it trivial to demodulate digital RF transmissions. It is built on top of the Inspectrum tool which makes it easy to visualize and manually turn...
View ArticleYouTube Video: A Tutorial on Receiving and Decoding NOAA and METEOR Satellites
Back in March we posted about The Thought Emporium’s YouTube video that explained weather satellites and demonstrated that images could be downloaded from them using an SDR like a HackRF or RTL-SDR....
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