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SDR# TETRA Decoder Plugin Updated
The TETRA plugin for SDR# has been updated a few times since our last post on it back in March. The latest version can be downloaded directly here, and the original link comes from the Russian scanner...
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Monitoring FT8, JT65, JT9 on Multiple Bands with Low Cost Single Board PCs
Thank you to Michael (dg0opk) who wrote in and wanted to share details of his full SDR monitoring system for weak signal HF modes. His setup consists of nine ARM mini PCs (such as Banana Pi's,...
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Forwarding Pager Messages Received with an RTL-SDR to Email
Over on YouTube Jack Riley has created a video that documents his system which uses an RTL-SDR to receive POCSAG pager messages and forward messages sent to specific pager addresses to an email...
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Creating a Linear Transponder with an RTL-SDR, HackRF and Raspberry Pi
A linear transponder is essentially a repeater that works on a range of frequencies instead of a fixed frequency. For example, a normal repeater may receive at 145 MHz, and repeat the signal at 435...
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Video Demonstrating C-Band AERO Aircraft Tracking
AERO is essentially the satellite based version of aircraft ACARS. AERO's L-band signals contains short ground to air messages with things like weather reports and flight plans. The C-band signals are...
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YouTube Talk: Investigating RF Controls with RTL-SDR
During the SANS Pen Test HackFest which was held back in 2017, speaker Katie Knowles who is a security consultant at MWR Infosecurity did a very informative talk on how an RTL-SDR can be used to...
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QuestaSDR Android App now with Remote Network Streaming: RTL-SDR, Airspy,...
Back in April we posted about QuestaSDR, which had just released the Android version of its SDR software. Recently QuestaSDR programmer 'hOne' wrote in and noted that a new update has enabled remote...
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Tzumi MagicTV WiFi TV Tuner Device contains an RTL-SDR, OpenWRT board and...
The Tzumi MagicTV is a device that allows users in the USA to watch TV on an Android phone via free over the air digital ATSC signals. It receives and decodes TV on the device, then streams decoded TV...
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Chasing Cubesats on a $25 Budget with an RTL-SDR and Homemade Antenna
Cubesats are small shoebox sized satellites that are usually designed by universities or amateur radio organizations for basic space experiments or amateur radio communications. Typically they have an...
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A Lightweight Meteor M2 Demodulator
Over on GitHub dbdexter-dev has released a new lightweight and open source Meteor M2 demodulator. Meteor M2 is a Russian weather satellite that transmits images down in the digital LRPT format. This...
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Using RTL_433 to Decode SimpliSafe Home Security Systems
SimpliSafe is an American DIY home security system company that claims over 2 million customers. Their system relies on 433/315 MHz ISM band wireless radio communications between its various sensors,...
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Tracking Planes with RTL-SDR, Apache Kafka, KSQL, Kibana and a Raspberry Pi
Inspired by a low flying aircraft that kept waking his cat in the morning, Simon Aubury decided to use an RTL-SDR and ADS-B tracking software dump1090 to determine which plane was the culprit. This is...
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Using the RTL-SDR as a tool to Measure Crystals
Over on YouTube OM0ET has shown how he uses his RTL-SDR for measuring crystals. While working on his home made HF 6-band SSB transceiver, OM0ET needed a way to measure the frequency of some 8 MHz...
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Using an RTL-SDR and moRFeus as a Tracking Generator to Measure Filters And...
The Outernet moRFeus As Outernet is currently having a sale and selling their their moRFeus product at only US $99 (see next post for details - or simply use coupon code "rtlsdrblog" on their checkout...
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CrowPi: Raspberry Pi Experimenters Kit Review (With RTL-SDR and RPiTX Tests)
CrowPi is a Raspberry Pi all-in-one experimenters kit that is currently crowd funding on Kickstarter. The idea behind CrowPi is to combine a touchscreen, various sensors, actuators and interfaces into...
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Tutorial: Setting up a Low Cost QRP (FT8, JT9, WSPR etc) Monitoring Station...
QRP is amateur radio slang for 'low transmit power'. QRP digital modes such as FT8, JT9, JT65 and WSPR are modes designed to be transmit and received across the world on low transmit powers (although...
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Building an RF Direction Finding Robot with an RTL-SDR
Over on Hackaday.io, project logger Humpelstilzchen has been writing about his attempts to create an autonomous RF direction finding robot RC car with an RTL-SDR. The goal is to set up an ISM band...
View ArticleGQRX and gr-osmosdr now with support for SpyServer
Thanks to the work of Lucas Teske, GQRX is now able to connect to SpyServer servers. SpyServer is the IQ streaming server software solution developed by the Airspy SDR developers. It can support Airspy...
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Notice: WXtoImg Website Down
Just a note that the website for the popular NOAA APT weather satellite decoding software WxtoImg is currently down, and may possibly never be revived. This software is commonly used with RTL-SDR...
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Video Explaining the Basics of RF Bias Tees
Over on YouTube w2aew who has many excellent videos explaining various radio topics has uploaded a new video that talks about the basics of bias tees, and shows some applications and examples. In the...
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