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A Solar Powered Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR NOAA Weather Satellite Receiver
Over on YouTube user Fuzz has uploaded a video showing his solar powered NOAA weather satellite receiver. The system is based on a Raspberry Pi connected to an RTL-SDR.com dongle. The front-end input...
View ArticleOnline 101 Course on RTL-SDR, DSP and MATLAB Starting Soon
Thanks to Juan Moreno for letting us know that his online MOOC (massive open online course) on RTL-SDR is starting on September 25. The course is presented by Juan and three of his colleagues from the...
View ArticleUsing the SDRuno EXTIO Edition with an RTL-SDR and other SDRs
Over on YouTube Mike from the SDRplay team has created a tutorial video that shows how to use the SDRuno EXTIO edition. SDRuno is the official software of the SDRplay line of products and can be freely...
View ArticleDecoding Amateur Radio Digital Voice with an RTL-SDR and the QRadioLink...
Thank you to Adrian for submitting his video about using the Android App called QRadioLink and an RTL-SDR to decode digital amateur radio voice transmissions. Adrian writes that in the video the...
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LocalRadio: A new RTL-SDR App for MacOS
Thanks to Doug Ward (@dsward) for letting us know about his new RTL-SDR compatible MacOS based app called LocalRadio. LocalRadio is an open source web browser based app that connects to a MacOS server...
View ArticleiqToSharp: Convert rtl_sdr IQ files to SDR# Format
Thanks to Marcin Jakubowski for submitting news about his new software tool called iqToSharp which is a simple tool that allows you to convert rtl_sdr IQ files into the SDR# IQ format. The rtl_sdr...
View ArticleTransmitting DVB-S with a PlutoSDR and Receiving it with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube Christopher Bridges has uploaded a video showing him using a PlutoSDR and a GNU Radio program to transmit a DVB-S signal, which is then received with an RTL-SDR. DVB-S is a digital...
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Using a TV Antenna Tap as a Directional Coupler for Antenna Measurements with...
Over on his blog Tomi Engdahl has been exploring his options for measuring the VSWR of antennas with an RTL-SDR. As discussed in one of our previous tutorials, by using an RTL-SDR, noise source and...
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Decrambling Split-Band Voice Inversion with the Deinvert Tool
In early September we posted about Oona Räisänen’s deinvert which is a tool that can be used to unscramble voice audio that has had voice inversion scrambling applied to it. Voice inversion works by...
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Using our new Dipole Antenna Kit
Over on our store we’ve recently released our new receive only dipole antenna kit which now replaces the older magnetic whip style antennas from the previous kit. This was done for a few reasons...
View ArticleComparing SSB, NFM, Codec2 and Opus with QRadioLink and an RTL-SDR
Earlier in the month we posted about Adrian M’s video that showed his QRadioLink software running on Android with an RTL-SDR. QRadioLink is a digital amateur radio voice decoder and encoder, that...
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Localizing Transmitters to within a few meters with TDOA and RTL-SDR Dongles
Back in August we posted a number of videos from the Software Defined Radio Academy talks held this year in Friedrichshafen, Germany. One of those talks was by Stefan Scholl, DC9ST and titled...
View ArticleVisualizing the Traveled Path of a Weather Balloon, Tanker Boat and Gliders...
Over on YouTube user pascal poulain has uploaded a short video that shows a timelapse of the flight path of a weather balloon in Cesiumjs as it rises and falls, as well as a time lapse of a marine...
View ArticleShowing what VOR and ILS Aviation Signals Look like in SDR#
Over on YouTube user RedWhiteandPew has uploaded two videos showing what VOR and ILS signals look like in SDR# with an RTL-SDR dongle. VOR and ILS are both radio signals used for navigation in...
View ArticleTom’s Radio Room Show Tests the RTL-SDR Blog Broadcast AM Filter
Over on YouTube Tom from Tom’s Radio Radio Room Show (TRRS) has uploaded a video showing the effectiveness of our broadcast AM (BCAM) filters for cleaning up HF reception. In the video he uses an RSP1...
View ArticleTesting the Prototype Outernet Patch Antenna with Built in RTL-SDR
A few months ago satellite data broadcasting company Outernet created a limited number of prototype receivers that combined an L-band satellite patch antenna, LNA and RTL-SDR into a signal unit. This...
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Meteor Logger: A Tool for Counting Meteor Detections with an RTL-SDR
Thanks to Wolfgang Kaufmann for submitting news about his new software called ‘Meteor Logger’. This tool can be used to count the number of meteors entering the atmosphere which have been detected by a...
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RadioForEveryone New Posts: Antenna Weatherproofing, NooElec Nano 3 Review,...
Over on his blog 'Radio for Everyone' author Akos has uploaded three new posts. The first shows how to cheaply weatherproof antenna connections by wrapping electrical/plumbing tape around the...
View ArticleTesting a 16x RTL-SDR V3 WebSDR System for the Satcom Band
Over on Twitter Denis (@uhfsatcom) has recently been teasing us with photos of his 16 dongle RTL-SDR V3 setup. The system looks like it's designed to be a satcom band WebSDR receiver. The satcom band...
View ArticleUsing an RTL-SDR and RPiTX to Defeat the Rolling Code Scheme used on Some...
Over on GitHub Tom Wimmenhove has been experimenting with the car keyfob on his Subaru car, and has discovered that the rolling code scheme used is very weak and so can be easily exploited. Most modern...
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