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Analyzing Lightning Discharges with an RTL-SDR and the Sage Network
Sage is a project working on creating geographically distributed sensor systems including cameras, microphones, weather and air quality stations in order to benefit the work of scientists. Recently on...
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NyanSat: A Low Cost Open Source Satellite Ground Station
Thank you to John D for writing in and letting us know that Wired magazine has recently run an article about the "Nyansat" project. Nyansat aims to bring low cost open source satellite ground stations...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Setting up a Broadcastify Feed with SDRTrunk
In her last video Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel showed us how to set up SDRTrunk for reception of digital P25 Police and other services with two RTL-SDR dongles. On this weeks...
View ArticleTechMinds: Using Public Online SDRs without SDR Hardware
This weeks video on the TechMinds channel explores the various online web SDRs that are available to access for free. Accessing these online SDRs does not require any hardware apart from a PC and...
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Testing the Electrosense Up/Downconverter Expansion Board For 0 – 6 GHz
The Electrosense network is an open source project aiming to deploy radio spectrum sensors worldwide. The idea is to help analyze and understand radio spectrum usage across the globe. Each sensor...
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Sanchez: Create False Colour Images from GOES/Himawari/GK-2A Infrared
With an RTL-SDR, an appropriate satellite antenna and LNA it is possible to receive visible light images from geostationary satellites such as GOES/Himawari and GK-2A. However, in a 24 hour cycle there...
View ArticleTechMinds: OpenWebRX Feature Overview And Raspberry Pi Setup
Over on YouTube TechMinds has posted his latest video which shows an overview of the features available in OpenWebRX, and also how to set it up on a Raspberry Pi. OpenWebRX is software which allows you...
View ArticleBSides Talk: It’s 2020, so why am I still able to read your pager traffic?
At the BSides OK 2020 virtual conference Cameron Mac Millan recently presented a talk titled "It’s 2020, so why am I still able to read your pager traffic?". On this blog we have posted numerous times...
View ArticleA Handheld SciFi Scanner Box with RTL-SDR and Thermal Camera
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has been working on creating a handheld scanner/sensor box on a budget. This is a simple and fun build which is attempting to create something like a real...
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Reporters use ADS-B Data to Uncover the Role US Private Contractors Play in...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have recently run a story about how they have used ADS-B aircraft data to uncover the role that US civilian aircraft contractors are playing...
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DEFCON 2020 Aerospace Village SDR Talks
A few weeks ago we posted about the recently uploaded talks listed on the Defcon YouTube channel. However, there is a second YouTube channel dedicated to talks presented as part of the Defcon Aerospace...
View ArticleYouTube Guide to Setting up and Running RTLion
RTLion is a software framework for RTL-SDR dongles that currently supports various features such as a power spectrum plot and frequency scanning. The software can run on a Raspberry Pi 3 and all...
View ArticleNew Updates to the librtlsdr RTL-SDR Driver Fork
Thank you to Hayati Ayguen for letting us know that he and others have submitted a slew of updates to the "librtlsdr" fork of the librtlsdr RTL-SDR drivers. The improvements made to the development...
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KerberosSDR Tracking a Drone Carrying an FM Beacon
KerberosSDR is our 4-channel phase coherent capable RTL-SDR unit that we previously successfully crowdfunded back in 2018. With a 4-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR interesting applications like radio...
View ArticleAutomatically Starting rtl_tcp on a Remote PC via Android
Over on his YouTube channel M Khanfar has put together a tutorial for an interesting idea. The idea is to use an automatic SSH connection to tell your Windows PC to run rtl_tcp whenever you open...
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New ExtIO For rtl_tcp: Control R820T Bandwidth, Decimation, Auto Reconnect
A few days ago we posted about Hayati and others' work in creating a new release of the librtlsdr drivers which implemented some new interesting features. However, at the time of the post there was no...
View ArticleTechMinds: Decoding GPS with an RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a video showing how it's possible to receive and decode GPS signals with an RTL-SDR. To do this he uses one of our RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongles and a GPS...
View ArticleUnlocking a Car with an RTL-SDR and Yardstick One
Over on his YouTube channel Kalle Hallden has uploaded a video demonstrating how to perform a replay and "rolljam" attack on a wireless car key with an RTL-SDR and Yardstick One. His first experiment...
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New RTL-SDR Driver for Android Developers
Android developers have a new RTL-SDR driver wrapper available to use called "RTL-SDR CP Driver". This driver by Evgeni Karalamov is designed to have an additional feature over the current Android...
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Comparing Shortwave Antennas with an RTL-SDR and FT8 Monitoring
Eric had an inverted L and T3FD antenna set up in his backyard and he wanted to test both at the same time to see which received HF better overall. Rather than relying on subjective 'by ear'...
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