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Tracking Police and Military Aircraft at the G7 Summit with an RTL-SDR
Back in early 2016 we posted about a journalist who used an RTL-SDR to gather ADS-B data about the type of aircraft used at the world economic forum in Davos. The idea was to help highlight the vast...
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Building A Giant $200 3D Corner Reflector Antenna for GOES, Moon Bounce and...
A corner reflector antenna is basically a monopole antenna with a metallic 'corner' reflector placed behind it. The reflector helps the monopole collect signals over a wider aperture resulting in...
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New RTL-SDR Frequency Heatmap Generator Plugin for SDR#
Thanks to VE3NEA for letting us know about his new RTL-SDR compatible heatmap generator plugin for SDR#. To use the plugin you first need to generate some heatmap CSV data by using the rtl_power...
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Video on Hacking 433 MHz Devices with an RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi
Over on YouTube user Andreas Spiess has uploaded a video showing how to use an RTL-SDR to reverse engineer 433 MHz ISM band devices such as Internet of Things (IoT)/home automation sensors and...
View ArticleNew GNU Radio Block for Decoding Meteor M2 Images
Thank you to Reiichiro Nakano for submitting news about his work on converting the Pascal based meteor_decoder software into a C++ GNU Radio block. meteor_decoder is a decoder for the Meteor M2 weather...
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Exposing Hospital Pager Privacy Breaches
It has been a known open secret that for years many hospitals have been transmitting sensitive patient data over the air completely unencrypted via their pager network. With a simple ultra cheap radio...
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New TETRA Trunk Tracker for use with SDR# and the TETRA Demodulator Plugin
Over on our forums user thewraith2008 has just released news about his new software called TETRA Trunk Tracker. The software works in conjunction with the TETRA demodulator plugin for SDR#. It works by...
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RS41 RadioSonde Tracking Software
A radiosonde is a small weather sensor package that is typically attached to a weather balloon. As it rises into the atmosphere it measures parameters such as temperature, humidity, pressure, GPS...
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Cloned SDRPlay and Airspy Units Now Appearing on Aliexpress/eBay
Recently we've found that there are now cloned units of SDRplay RSP1 and Airspy R2 units appearing on Aliexpress and eBay. (We won't link them here to avoid improving the Google ranking of the clone...
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New Store Products: SDRplay RSP1A Metal Case Upgrade + Portable Antenna Set
Over on our store we've just released two new products for sale. The first is a metal case upgrade kit for the SDRplay RSP1A. It is similar to the previous enclosure that we sold for the RSP1, but no...
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Video Tutorial About Decoding 433 MHz ISM Devices with rtl_433
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has recently uploaded a video that demonstrates and shows how to use the rtl_433 software with an RTL-SDR to decode 433 MHz ISM band low power devices. Typically...
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Using the VirtualHere USB Server for Remote RTL-SDR
Over on our forums one user luc4sss has been discussing a method for using RTL-SDR's and perhaps other SDR dongles remotely which does not rely on rtl_tcp, SpyServer or other SDR specific server...
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Tutorial on Setting up OP25 for P25 Phase 2 Digital Voice Decoding
Most police departments is the USA have now upgraded or are in the process of upgrading their radio systems to P25 Phase 2 digital radio. The frequencies can easily be received with an RTL-SDR, but a...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Receiving ISS Astronaut Amateur Radio Conversations with...
Over on his YouTube channel Crazy Danish Hacker has posted a new video that shows how to pick up amateur radio voice signals from the International Space Station (ISS). Often astronauts on the ISS will...
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An Opensource Mini-Whip Antenna and Upconverter Design for RTL-SDRs
Thank you to Igor Yatsevich for submitting news about an open source Mini-Whip and Upconverter design that he's created and released for free on GitHub. An upconverter converts HF frequencies into VHF...
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Tutorial on using RS to Decode and Plot Radiosondes
A radiosonde is a small weather sensor package that is typically attached to a weather balloon. As it rises into the atmosphere it measures parameters such as temperature, humidity, pressure, GPS...
View ArticleA Car Based SDR Station for ADS-B, ATCS, P25, DMR, POCSAG and more
Over on YouTube user Corrosive has uploaded a video where he takes us on a tour or his very nicely set up mobile SDR station that is built into his car. His setup includes several antennas on his car's...
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SDR-Remote: A Physical Tuning and Control Knob for SDR#
Recently Maxim who runs his small company "ExpElectroLab" wrote in and wanted to share a new product that he's developed called "SDR-Remote v2.0". This is a physical tuning knob that connects to your...
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Receiving GOES Weather Satellite HRIT with an SDRplay and 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid...
Over on the SDRplay forums member RSP2user has posted a new tutorial, this time showing how to receive weather satellite images from GOES satellites with an RSP2 and cheap 2.4 GHz WiFi grid antenna....
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Decoding a Moon Orbiting Satellite 378500 km’s away with an RTL-SDR
Thanks to IU2EFA (William) for writing in and letting us know about his success in decoding telemetry from the moon orbiting satellite known as DSLWP-B / LONGJIANG-2. LONJIANG-2 is a Chinese lunar...
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