SignalsEverywhere: Testing SDR++ A Hands on Overview
On on YouTube on the SignalsEverywhere channel Sarah has uploaded a new video where she gives a hands on overview of the SDR++ software. Last week we posted about the release of SDR++ V1.0.0, which is...
View ArticleA Physical LED Vehicle HUD for KerberosSDR Radio Fox Hunting
Mark Jessop (@vk5qi) has recently been experimenting with a LED based hardware vehicle heads up display (HUD) that he has created to be used together with our KerberosSDR. The KerberosSDR combined with...
View ArticleDragonOS: Automated Spectrum Analysis with SDR4Space.lite
Over on YouTube Aaron has uploaded a video showing how he is using the SDR4Space.lite package in DragonOS to do some interesting experiments with automated spectrum analysis using a PlutoSDR or...
View ArticleSDRA2021 Talks: Electrosense, Neural Network Signal Classification, gr-rpitx,...
The 2021 Software Defined Radio Academy conference was held online this year on June 26/27 and the talks have been recently uploaded to YouTube. There are some interesting talks this year including a...
View ArticleSimple FM Radio and Airband RTL-SDR Android Applications
On the Google Play store developer Knowle Consultants have recently released a new free application called "FM Radio (RTL-SDR)". This is a simple app that allows you to use a connected or remotely...
View ArticleRTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band Patch Antenna for Inmarsat, Iridium, GPS Back in...
Just a quite note to say that the second batch of our Active L-Band Patch Antenna for receiving Inmarsat, Iridium and other L-Band satellites is now in stock, available to be shipped from our warehouse...
View ArticleA SDR Digital Voice Hotspot with GNU Radio, MMDVM and QRadioLink
Thank you to Adrian (YO8RZZ) for writing in and sharing with us his article explaining how to use an SDR to set up a digital voice hotspot for digital voice modes supported by MMDVM such as D-Star,...
View ArticleSDRSharp Guide V3.0 Released
Paolo Romani (IZ1MLL) has recently released version 3.0 of his SDRSharp PDF Guide which we posted about last in March of this year. As before the document is a detailed guide about how to use SDRSharp,...
View ArticleReceiving the ‘Hidden’ Broadcast FM SCA Audio Subcarrier with an RTL-SDR and...
Broadcast FM channels can often contain additional subcarriers hidden within the bandwidth. A common subcarrier is Radio Data System (RDS), and this is what provides song and radio station text...
View ArticleViewing the RF Spectrum in Virtual Reality + Augmented Reality EMC Probe
Thank you to Manahiyo for submitting his video which shows his software that allows the RF spectrum to be viewed in virtual reality, using a VR headset and an RTL-SDR. In his setup he currently uses a...
View ArticleInstalling Remote SDR V2 on a Raspberry Pi 4B
Remote SDR V2 is software that allows you to easily remotely access either a PlutoSDR, HackRF or RTL-SDR software defined radio. It was originally designed to be used with the amateur radio QO-100...
View ArticleNear Field Localization with Machine Learning and 7 Coherent RTL-SDRs
Thanks to Laakso Mikko and Risto Wichman researchers at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics in Aalto University, Finland for submitting news that their recent paper titled "Near-field...
View ArticleVideo on Using RF Filters with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube channel TheSmokinApe has uploaded a video about using RF filters with an RTL-SDR. In the video he first explains why FM bandstop and AM high pass filters might be required when using a...
View ArticleDecoding the RF Output of a VCR with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube use Scelly has uploaded a video showing how he has used an RTL-SDR dongle and the TVSharp SDR# plugin to decode video from the RF output of an old VCR (videocassette recorder). VCR...
View ArticleSDR Talks from the SDRMakerspace Online Presentation
Thank you to Robert for letting us know about these videos from the "ESA ARTES SDR MakerSpace Presentations" from September 6-8, 2021 which are now available on YouTube. Libre Space Foundation (...
View ArticleTechMinds: Testing SDR++ The Bloat Free SDR Software
Over on YouTube TechMinds has recently released a video where he overview SDR++, dubbed as the "bloat free SDR software". We've been following the development of SDR++ for a while, and recently posted...
View ArticleKrakenSDR Update: New Prototypes, Software Updates, Campaign to Release Soon
KrakenSDR is our 5-tuner coherent software defined radio based on RTL-SDR. It is the successor to the KerberosSDR and will be crowdfunded on Crowd Supply with the campaign due to begin soon. Please...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Decoding Fire, Ambulance MDT and Hospital Pagers with SDR++ and...
On this weeks Frugal Radio YouTube video, Rob explores how to decode Fire, Ambulance and Hospital pager data using SDR++ and PDW. In the video Rob first explains what applications pagers are used for...
View ArticleCCERA Memo on Building Small Introductory 21cm Telescopes for use with SDRs
CCERA is the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy which is run by Marcus Leech who is well known for experimenting with low cost SDR based radio astronomy projects. In the past we've seen...
View ArticleRasPad 3.0 Review: Building a Portable Raspberry Pi 4 Tablet with Built in...
The Raspad 3.0 is a portable tablet enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 4B. It comes with a high resolution 1280 x 800 10.1 inch touch LCD screen, built in speakers, built in battery and a plastic enclosure...
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