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ExaGear x86 Emulator for ARM To be Discontinued
ExaGear is an x86 emulator for ARM computing devices. In the past we posted about ExaGear as together with WINE, it was an affordable solution that allowed Windows SDR apps to run on ARM devices like...
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XRIT Decoder Updated: Improved Image Quality and IR Enhancements
USA-Satcom is the programmer of XRIT Decoder, which is a popular (paid) Windows decoding application for GOES weather satellites. With a WiFi grid dish antenna, LNA and SDRplay, Airspy or even an...
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rsp_tcp: An rtl_tcp compatible IQ Server for SDRplay SDRs
The SDRplay team have released an updated version of a program called "rsp_tcp" (originally written by F4FHH Nicholas). This is a streaming IQ server for SDRplay devices, which is directly ported from...
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SignalsEverywhere Podcast EP1: Es’hail-2, Favorite RTL-SDR Blog Posts and...
Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel is starting up a radio/SDR related podcast, and today has released episode one. The podcast is 22 minutes long, and in that time he discusses...
View ArticleAmateur Radio on the Es’hail-2 Satellite Explained on YouTube
Over on YouTube Tech Minds has posted a video explaining what Es'hail-2 satellite is and why it is interesting for hams and SDR users. Briefly Es'hail-2 is a recently launched geostationary TV...
View ArticleYouTube Tutorial: Decoding POCSAG and FLEX Pager Messages on Windows with PDW
Pager systems are famously known to be insecure, and due to the lack of encryption and high transmit power anyone with an RTL-SDR or other SDR can receive and decode pager messages. The users of pagers...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere Video: SDRAngel How to Receive Basics Tutorial
Over on his YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Corrosive has posted a new video tutorial explaining how to use the SDRAngel software for receiving signals in Windows. SDRAngel is a general purpose SDR...
View ArticleDemonstration of Two SatNOGS Rotators
Thank you to IZ5RZR for writing in and sharing his two SatNOGS rotator builds with us. SatNOGS is an open source project that aims to make it easy for volunteers to build and run RTL-SDR or other SDR...
View ArticleTransferring Files via the BlockStream Satellite with Lightning Network...
The Blockstream satellite API is now live on the main Bitcoin network. Blockstream satellite is a project that aims to use geosynchronous satellites to strengthen the Bitcoin network by continuously...
View ArticleConference Talk: Linux, Raspberry Pi, RTLSDR, LAME and Open Source (A Recipe...
The SCaLE conference on open source and free software was recently held on March 10 in Pasadena, California. One of the talks by Ben Kuo AI6YR was titled "Linux, Raspberry Pi, RTLSDR, LAME and Open...
View ArticleReceiving Voice Communications From the Soyuz MS-12 Expedition to the ISS
On March 14 the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft mission was launched and this carried three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Back on the ground, YouTube creator Tysonpower was able to...
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QIRX SDR Beta 2.0.1.0 Released: Improvements to DAB Scanner, Recorder and...
QIRX SDR is a multimode SDR program compatible with the RTL-SDR. One of its defining features is that it has a built in DAB+ decoder. Recently beta version 2.01 of QIRX SDR was released which has some...
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SigintOS: A Linux Distro for Signal Intelligence
Recently we've heard of a new Linux distribution called SigintOS becoming available for download. SigintOS is an Ubuntu based distribution with a number of built in signal intelligence applications for...
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Ghosts in the Air Glow HAARP Art Project: Transmitting Until March 28
The famous HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) antenna array will be transmitting again from March 25 - March 28, 2019. HAARP is an antenna array which is used to perform experiments...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Using DSDPlus Fastlane for Listening to Phase 1 P25 Trunking
DSDPlus is a popular piece of software often used with RTL-SDR dongles to listen to unencrypted digital voice signals such as P25 and DMR. Digital voice is now commonly used by many Police and...
View ArticleRSA Conference Talks: IOT Hacking with SDR, Tracking Rogue RF Devices &...
RSA Conference is an information security event that was recently held on March 4 - 8 in San Francisco. The talks have been uploaded to YouTube and from what we see there are three interesting SDR/RF...
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Replicating A Rolljam Wireless Vehicle Entry Attack with a Yardstick One and...
Over on his hackaday.io blog, Gonçalo Nespral has written about his experiences in recreating Samy Kamkars now famous low cost rolljam attack. A rolljam attack allows an attacker break into a car by...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Setting Up Priority and Groups in DSDPlus Fastlane
In his last video, Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel showed us a quick guide on setting up a Phase 1 P25 digital voice decoder with two RTL-SDR dongles and the DSDPlus Fastlane...
View ArticleNext International Space Station SSTV Event on April 11 – 14
Thank you to Alex Happysat for writing in and letting us know about the next upcoming ISS SSTV event which will begin on 11 April at about 18:00 UTC and end on 14 April 2019 18:00 UTC. If you were...
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A Portable RTL-SDR Based ADS-B Receiver with Display and 3D Printed Enclosure
Over on Hackaday.io user nathan.matsuda has written about his RTL-SDR based hand held ADS-B aircraft receiver with display and 3D printed enclosure. His initial idea was to create a flexible and open...
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