Using an RTL-SDR to Investigate GPS Interference Problems on Drones Caused By...
Over on YouTube Drone and Model Aircraft enthusiast channel Paweł Spychalski has uploaded a video showing how he determined that cheap HD cameras that are commonly used on hobbyist drones can cause...
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Updates on the PICTOR Low Cost Open Source Radio Telescope Based on RTL-SDR
Back in July we posted about PICTOR, an open source and RTL-SDR based radio telescope project. The owner of the project recently wrote in and wanted to share some updates. His text is below: A few...
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An Active Low Cost HF Loop Antenna Made in the UK
Cross Country Wireless is a UK based company that has created an active HF loop antenna for only $70 USD including international shipping. The loop appears to have already been for sale for a while...
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A Motorized Backyard Radio Astronomy Telescope made with an RTL-SDR
A Geostationary Satellite Imaged with the RTL-SDR Based Mini Radio Telescope Just a few days we posted an update on the PICTOR open source radio telescope project. That project makes use of an RTL-SDR...
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r2Cloud: Software for Automatically Decoding APT/LRPT Weather Satellites and...
Thanks to a tweet by @rf_hacking we recently came across an interesting project called "r2cloud". This is an open source program provided on a ready to use image for the Raspberry Pi that can be used...
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ORBCOMM Receiver: New Open Source Software for Monitoring Orbcomm Satellites
Thank you to Frank for submitting his new RTL-SDR compatible Orbcomm Satellite monitor software called "Orbcomm Receiver". Orbcomm is a low earth orbit satellite communications system that operates in...
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Dash Mounted ADS-B With an RTL-SDR Blog V3
Reddit user [Bobcalamarie] recently [posted] about how he uses his car dash mounted Android tablet along with an RTL-SDR Blog V3 and a magnetic mount antenna while sitting in traffic to track aircraft...
View ArticleIn Testing: Customized Drivers for RTL-SDR Blog V3 SDRs
We've recently released a modified version of the Osmocom RTL-SDR drivers that has a few enhancements particularly for RTL-SDR Blog V3 units. The changes merge improvements to L-Band PLL locking...
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Measuring Traffic in a Neighborhood with KerberosSDR and Passive Radar
KerberosSDR is our four tuner coherent RTL-SDR product made in collaboration with Othernet. With KerberosSDR applications like radio direction finding and passive radar are possible, and our free open...
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QRUQSP – Receiving Weather Sensors via RTL-SDR and Sharing over APRS
Thank you to Andrew Rivett for writing in and sharing news about his project called "QRUQSP" which is aiming to provide an easy to set up system for allowing amateur radio operators to put weather...
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Using an RTL-SDR and Speech To Text to Create Alerts on Specific Phrases
Atlassian Opsgenie Engineer Fahri Yardımcı has recently written up an interesting post that details how he's using Opsgenie and Amazon Transcribe to automatically create alerts when specific voice...
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Creating An Automated Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR Based NOAA Weather Satellite...
The nootropicdesign blog has recently uploaded a comprehensive tutorial showing how to create an automated NOAA Weather Satellite ground station using an RTL-SDR V3 and an Raspberry Pi 3. The project...
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cuSignal: Easy CUDA GPU Acceleration for SDR DSP and Other Applications
The RAPIDS cuSignal project is billed as an ecosystem that makes enabling CUDA GPU acceleration in Python easy. Scipy is a Python library that is filled with many useful digital signal processing (DSP)...
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TechMinds Reviews our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Patch Antenna + Horn & Dish Mod
Over on YouTube the TechMinds YouTube channel has uploaded a review of our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band patch antenna which we recently released. TechMinds tests the antenna on a STD-C Inmarsat channel with the...
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Networked Radio Direction Finding with KerberosSDR and RDFMapper
We've just uploaded a short Python script to GitHub that allows radio direction bearings from a KerberosSDR to be used with the RDF Mapper software created by Jonathan Musther. RDF Mapper is a (~US$25)...
View ArticleA Homebrew All-In-One RTL-SDR with Screen and Control Knobs Running on a Mini PC
Over on YouTube user Pablo Sala (KI7OJL) has uploaded a video that shows a neat all-in-one receiver build based on an RTL-SDR. Pablo's build runs on a Pipo x8 Mini PC which is a US$110 PC/tablet that...
View ArticleCoole-Radar: A Retro Terminal Based Radar Display for ADS-B Aircraft Data
John Wiseman has been working on a cool old-school retro styled aircraft ADS-B radar that runs entirely within a terminal window. So no GUI desktop should be required. The project, called...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere Reviews our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Active Patch Antenna Kit
Over on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere channel has uploaded a review of our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Active Patch antenna. Our patch antenna can be used for...
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Reverse Engineering and Controlling a Pan-Tilt Camera Servo with an RTL-SDR...
The ZIFON YT-500 is a pan-tilt tripod designed for mounting small cameras and smart phones. It also comes with an RF based 433 MHz wireless remote control that allows you to remotely control the...
View ArticleAstrophiz Podcast Interviews Steve Olney: Capturing the 2019 Vela Pulsar...
Back in May 2019 we posted about Steve Olney's HawkRAO amateur radio astronomy station which was the only station in the world to capture the 2019 Vela Pulsar "glitch" which he did so using his RTL-SDR...
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