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CyberRadio: A Minimal GPU Accelerated Radio App for Most SDRs
Programmer Luigi F. Cruz has recently released a new SDR app called "CyberRadio". CyberRadio is a minimal SDR app, which allows you to listen to FM and AM radio. It does not have any spectrum analyzer...
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KerberosSDR 4-Channel RTL-SDR Passive Radar with Peak Hold Display
Recently we've been testing a simple peak hold for the KerberosSDR passive radar display. This results in some nice graphs that show aircraft and vehicle activity over time. Passive radar works by...
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A Hydrogen Line Telescope Made from Cereal Boxes and an RTL-SDR
SpaceAustralia.com have recently been hosting a community science project that involves encouraging teams to build backyard radio telescopes that can detect the arms of our Milky Way Galaxy by...
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Hackaday Tutorial: A Crash Course in RF Modulation – ASK, FSK and LoRa...
Hackaday writer Danie Conradie has recently posted a new tutorial explaining the difference between some common RF modulation choices. To do this he uses various RF hardware modules, and an RTL-SDR...
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How to Not Break Your SDR + Other Articles from oneSDR
A new software defined radio blog called onesdr.com has recently posted a useful article for radio world newbies called "How Not to Break your Software-defined Radio Hardware". The article goes over a...
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A FM Radio Passive Radar System from Two RTL-SDR Dongles
Over on his blog, Max Manning has posted about his senior year design project which was an RTL-SDR based passive radar system that he created with his project partner Derek Capone. Max's writeup...
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Cheap and Easy Hydrogen Line Radio Astronomy with an RTL-SDR, WiFi Parabolic...
We've recently been testing methods to help budding amateur radio astronomers get into the hobby cheaply and easily. We have found that a low cost 2.4 GHz 100 cm x 60 cm parabolic WiFi grid antenna,...
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Driver Patch for FC0013 RTL-SDRs Improves UHF and ADS-B Performance
Thank you to Benjamin Larsson for submitting news about a FC0013 tuner patch he's submitted for the Osmocom RTL-SDR driver code. FC0013 based RTL-SDRs have been relatively unpopular due to the reduced...
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MEMESat-1: A Meme-Beaming Cubesat Currently In Development
The Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement Satellite (MEMESat-1) is planned to be the first meme broadcasting cube satellite ever created. If you aren't down with modern slang and are not...
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KerberosSDR: Tracking Aircraft on a Map via Passive Radar and Beamforming...
If you've been following KerberosSDR development (our US$149 4 channel coherent RTL-SDR), then you'll know that one interesting experiment that you can set up with it is a passive radar. Passive radar...
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OpenWebRX Version 0.18.0 Released: New Decoders for Digital Voice, Digital...
Back in early January we posted about how the popular web based SDR and RTL-SDR compatible receiver software known as OpenWebRX was officially discontinued by the original author. However, thanks to...
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ADSBExchange now using tar1090: Historical Flight Tracks, Military Aircraft...
ADSBExchange is an aircraft tracking website service which aggregates ADS-B data from contributors running RTL-SDR's or similar receivers worldwide. However, unlike other flight tracking sites such as...
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OneSDR New Posts: RF Filter Primer, Bias Tees, SDR Precautions
Over on onesdr.com a new SDR tutorial website, the authors have put up three new posts. The first post is part 2 of their "How Not to Break your Software-defined Radio (SDR) Hardware" series. This post...
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IGate2: An RTL-SDR Compatible APRS iGate for Android
Thank you yo Agrosi Luciano for submitting news about his new RTL-SDR compatible Android App called "IGate2". IGate2 is a receive only APRS IGate written for Android devices. There is a free and paid...
View ArticleCombining Android Tasker and an RTL-SDR for Mobile Automated Frequency Power...
Over on YouTube Ian Grody has uploaded two videos demonstrating an early alpha project that he is working on which combines Android Tasker with RTL-SDR frequency scanning. Tasker is an Android...
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Thesis on Locating Transmitters with TDoA and RTL-SDRs
Jan Hrach of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Univerzita Karlova in the Czech Republic recently defended his Masters thesis titled "Passive emitter tracking". The main theme of the thesis was...
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NooElec Releases the Ham-It-Up Nano HF Upconverter
Today NooElec have released a new product called the "Ham-it-up Nano" for US$49.95 on their store and Amazon. The original Ham-it-up is an HF upconverter that enables reception of the HF bands with...
View ArticleA Seminar on Setting up and Understanding a SatNOGS Satellite Ground Station
At the 2019 TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), Corey Shields (KB9JHU) and Dan White (AD0CQ) presented a comprehensive guide on setting up your own SatNOGS satellite ground receiver station....
View ArticleYouTube Tutorial on Receiving Weather Images from NOAA Satellites
Over on YouTube the "Ham Radio Crash Course" channel has uploaded a new video showing how to receive APT images from NOAA weather satellites. There are many tutorials (such as ours here) and videos on...
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The Othernet Bullseye TCXO LNB for QO-100 Reception
Othernet have recently released their new "Bullseye" 10 kHz Ultra High Stability Universal LNB. It is currently on sale and available for US$39.95 + shipping on their store. The LNB is designed for...
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