Receiving Shortwave Radiograms with an RTL-SDR and MultiPSK
Shortwave Radiogram's are digital broadcasts of images, text and sometimes HTML files that are regularly broadcast on two shortwave radio stations, WRMI in Florida and WINB in Pennsylvania. The...
View ArticleGNU Radio Amateur Radio Meeting: A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio
Over on their YouTube channel GNU Radio have uploaded a recent talk by Aaron Rossetto titled "A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio". The talk explains the North American public safety P25 system in...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next video in his airband monitoring series. In this video Rob explains various airband communications that can be received from the airport, and...
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GPU Accelerated RTL-SDR Radio Interferometer Code For Radio Astronomy
Evan Mayer (@millijanskys) has recently released some code called “effex” that allows you to use two RTL-SDR dongles as an interferometer for radio astronomy and other experiments. The hardware used is...
View ArticleProject Horus 55: Live Video from a High Altitude Balloon
Project Horus 55 was a project that involved creating a high altitude balloon with payload that could broadcast live video down to ground station observers, as well as creating the ground station...
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Preorder Sale: Active L-Band 1525-1660 Inmarsat and Iridium Patch Back In...
We have just received stock of our new L-band active patch antenna design. The antenna is designed for receiving L-band satellites such as Inmarsat, Iridium, GPS and other satellites that transmit...
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SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite Successfully Launched and in Orbit
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting news about the successful launch and first reception of the SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite (which is only 5x5x5cm in size). The pre-launch press release...
View ArticleBuilding a GOES-16 Antenna out of Trash, Cardboard and Foil Tape
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he was able to modify and old DirectTV satellite dish found in the dumpster with cardboard and foil in order to receive...
View ArticleSDR# Updated: Improved Performance and Better RTL-SDR Compatibility
SDR# (SDRSharp) is one of the most popular free software defined radio programs available with RTL-SDR support. Recently it has been updated to version 1811 and the new version brings improved...
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NOAA-2 Returns from the Dead
Satellites can stay in orbit for years after their decommissioning date. Although they are turned off, often after many years they can turn on again as the battery chemicals begin to break down,...
View ArticleRecent Podcasts on Software Defined Radio from Scanner School
Scanner School is an online resource that aims to teach subscribers all about radio scanning. They also run a weekly podcast discussing various topics in the scanning hobby. Recently they've had a bit...
View ArticleDemonstrating How Speakers Can Become an Unintentional RF Transmitter
Over on YouTube channel Privacy & Tech Tips has uploaded a video showing how he used an RTL-SDR to pick up RF emissions coming from some speakers that were unintentionally acting as wireless...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring En Route Air Traffic Control, Oceanic Clearances,...
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded part three in his airband monitoring series. The the last video Rob discussed what communications can be received from the airport. In this weeks video Rob...
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Vector Measurements with an RTL-SDR and HackRF Based System
Over the course of 2020 Tomaž Šolc from Avian's Blog has been slowly working on an RTL-SDR based vector network analyzer system. The system currently consists of an ERASync Micro signal generator, a...
View ArticleTech Minds: Using BaseStation Software with any ADSB Hardware + XRange2...
BaseStation is an old ADS-B visualization program that was originally made to be used with BaseStation SBS receivers which were commonly used for ADS-B reception before the discovery of the RTL-SDR....
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Review of our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Patch Antenna
Over on YouTube Rob from Frugal Radio has uploaded a video reviewing our new L-Band Patch antenna which we released for sale late last month. The patch is currently on a release sale for US$44.95...
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Unleash the Kraken(SDR): 5-Channel Coherent Capable RTL-SDR Coming Soon...
Back at the end of 2018 we successfully crowdfunded KerberosSDR on Indiegogo which was our first coherent capable RTL-SDR that consisted of four RTL-SDRs on a common clock, with built in noise source...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Video Now Encrypted
Back in early and mid March we posted about how several amateur radio hobbyists worked together to receive and figure out how to decode text telemetry as well as live video from SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets...
View ArticleTwo reviews of our new L-Band Patch Antenna + Stock Update
Last month we released our new L-band active patch antenna for sale, and not too long after we had a review from Frugal Radio praising it. We now have two more YouTube reviews available to share. The...
View ArticleFeeding Audio from SDR# To Multiple PCs over TCP
Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting his latest video that shows us how to use a launcher that he's created called "GUI SDR TCP STREAMER" (which is actually a combination of several freeware Windows...
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