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Connecting an RTL-SDR Panadapter to a uBITX Transceiver
The uBITX is a US$129 HF SSB/CW QRP transceiver kit that works from 3 MHz to 30 MHz with up to 10W TX power. It's a fully analogue radio, but it can be combined with an RTL-SDR to create a panadapter...
View ArticleMeasuring the SWR of FPV Antennas with an RTL-SDR
FPV stands for 'First Person View', and is a term used to describe the hobby of flying remote controlled aircraft entirely via the view from a wireless camera that transmits live video to the pilots...
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RadioForEveryone: RTL-SDR Max USB Cable Length, Dongles Image Gallery,...
Recently Akos has uploaded three new posts on his RadioForEveryone blog. The first post is a review of the "Ham-It-Up Plus", which is a US$65 upconverter that allows you to listen to HF on RTL-SDR...
View ArticleRussian RTL-SDR USB Filter Video Review
Over on YouTube, Alexander from the Russian channel РАДИОБЛОГ с Александром Никитенко has uploaded a video review of a Russian USB filter product, designed for USB SDR dongles. The video is narrated in...
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A Step by Step Tutorial to Receiving GOES-16 Images with an RTL-SDR,...
Aleksey Smolenchuk (lxe) has recently uploaded a step-by-step guide to setting up a GOES weather satellite receiver with an RTL-SDR dongle, Raspberry Pi and the goestools software. GOES 15/16/17 are...
View ArticleListening to the Sound of Molecules via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and an...
Over on YouTube user aonomus has uploaded a video showing how he's used an RTL-SDR to observe and listen to the radio signal generated via a chemistry lab's nuclear magnetic resonance machine. To do...
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GammaRF: Distributed Radio Signal Collection and Analysis with RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to Josh for submitting news about his project called GammaRF. GammaRF is an client-server program that is used to aggregate signal information via the internet from distributed SDRs....
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Spektrum SV Mod: RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer Software Now with Improved UI
Spektrum is a popular spectrum analyzer program that is used with RTL-SDR dongles. It is based on the command line rtl_power software and is compatible with both Windows and Linux. Thanks to it's easy...
View ArticleMore KerberosSDR Passive Radar Demos
KerberosSDR is our upcoming low cost 4-tuner coherent RTL-SDR. With four antenna inputs it can be used as a standard array of four individual RTL-SDRs, or in coherent applications such as direction...
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Reverse Engineering Wireless Blinds with an RTL-SDR and Controlling them with...
Amazon Alexa is a smart speaker that can be programmed to control home automation devices via voice commands. For example, Stuart Hinson wanted to be able to control his wirelessly controlled blinds...
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Using an RTL-SDR to decode VOR Aircraft Navigation Beacons in Real Time
VOR stands for VHF Omnidirectional Range and is a way to help aircraft navigate by using fixed ground based beacons. The beacons are specially designed in such a way that the aircraft can use the...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial: Installing GNU-Radio on Windows 10
Over on YouTube user Petr Horký has uploaded a helpful tutorial video showing how to install GNU Radio on Windows 10. Petr goes through the steps from installing Python, pip and other dependencies like...
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RPiTX v2 Released: Easily Record and Replay with RTL-SDR and a Raspberry Pi
RPiTX is software for the Raspberry Pi which can turn it into a 5 kHz to 1500 MHz transmitter which can transmit any arbitrary signal. In order to transmit the software does not require any additional...
View ArticleSetting up Air Traffic Control Audio Sharing with Broadcastify, RTL-Airband,...
Over on YouTube Fuzz The Pi Guy has uploaded a video tutorial showing how to set up a Broadcastify air traffic control audio feed with RTL-Airband and an RTL-SDR running on a Raspberry Pi. This allows...
View ArticleAn Overview of Aircraft Communication Modes from HF to UHF
Over on YouTube icholakov has uploaded an informative video that gives an overview of the main communication modes that aircraft use from HF to UHF. In the video he also gives examples of those modes...
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Es’hail-2: First Geostationary Satellite with Amateur Radio Transponders...
Today SpaceX have successfully launched and deployed the Es'hail-2 satellite which is now in geostationary orbit. This launch is special for amateur radio enthusiasts because it is the first...
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Motherboard Article: Creating an IMSI Catcher with an RTL-SDR
Motherboard, an online technology magazine has recently run an article titled "With $20 of Gear from Amazon, Nearly Anyone Can Make This IMSI-Catcher in 30 Minutes". The article describes how an...
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An Open Source VOR Receiver for Airspy and RTL-SDR
Thank you to Thierry Leconte (TLeconte) for writing in and submitting his new command line based open source software called vortrack. Vortrack is a simple VOR decoder which calculates the angle...
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An Overview on RF Direction Finding with RTL-SDRs
Thanks to K2GOG of the Hudson Valley Digital Network for writing in a sharing with us his latest blog post which is a useful overview of some direction finding techniques that can be used with RTL-SDR...
View ArticleYouTube Tutorial: Using RTL-SDR on an Android Smartphone
Over on YouTube, channel Null Byte has uploaded a video showing us how to use an RTL-SDR V3 on an Android smartphone. In the video he discusses the hardware and software required to get started on...
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