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Release the KrakenSDR! CrowdFunding now on Crowd Supply
KrakenSDR is now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply. Thank you to all interested parties for your patience while we navigated recent pandemic-related delays. KrakenSDR is a five-channel,...
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dumphfdl: A Multichannel HFDL Decoder for SDR
Thank you to Tomasz Lemiech for writing in and sharing with us the release of his new software "dumphfdl". Tomasz is the author of dumpvdl2 and also maintains RTLSDR-Airband. Regarding dumphfdl Tomasz...
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Snooping Network Traffic from LAN Cables with an RTL-SDR or HackRF
Mordechai Guri is a cyber-security security researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Recently Guri has described a method for sniffing network data from LAN Ethernet cables over an...
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Imaging the Cygnus Star Forming Region with an RTL-SDR and Amateur Radio...
Over on Facebook Job Geheniau has posted results from his latest radio astronomy experiment which involves imaging the Cygnus-X star forming region at 1424 MHz with a 1.9m radio telescope, an RTL-SDR...
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KrakenSDR CrowdFunding Week 1 Updates
The following was posted to our Crowd Supply page as an update to our KrakenSDR crowd funding project. Funded! Thanks to everyone’s amazing support we were able to fund in less than 24 hours from...
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TechMinds: Testing DragonOS Focal, a Linux ISO with many SDR programs built-in
In the past we've posted many times about DragonOS which is an Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR software packages. This takes the hassle out of needing to compile and...
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Imaging the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant with an RTL-SDR and Amateur Radio...
Just a few days ago we posted about Job Geheniau's success at radio imaging the Cygnus-X star forming region at 1424 MHz with a 1.9m radio telescope, an RTL-SDR and some additional filtering and LNAs....
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SignalsEverywhere tests our RTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band Patch Antenna
Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel is back this week with a video review and demonstration of our RTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band patch antenna, which is designed for receiving Inmarsat and...
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Tech Minds: Testing the Cloudmarkers SDRuno Community Plugin
This week on the Tech Minds YouTube channel Matthew introduces the "Cloudmarkers" plugin for SDRuno. SDRuno is the official software for the SDRplay RSP line of software defined radios, but the EXTio...
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Lightweight Windows Software uSDR Updated to Version 1.4.0
Back in July we posted about the release of Viol Tailor's "uSDR" software, which is a lightweight general purpose multimode program for Windows which supports the RTL-SDR, Airspy, BladeRF, HackRF and...
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LeanHRPT – A set of tools for the manipulation of HRPT data
Over on Reddit u/Xerbot has posted about the release of his new software called "LeanHRPT". When combined with a software defined radio, this software can be used to decode and view HRPT weather...
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Frugal Radio: Choosing a “Step Up” Software Defined Radio
In this weeks Frugal Radio episode Rob explores some low cost "Step Up" radios that for a moderately higher price, can give improved receiver performance when compared to RTL-SDRs . In the video Rob...
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KrakenSDR Crowd Funding Campaign Ends Fully Funded
Thank you to everyone who has backed or been following our KrakenSDR project on Crowd Supply. The initial funding campaign has now concluded with almost 5x our minimum funding goal! If you missed out,...
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SignalsEverywhere: Spectrum Analyzer and Tracking Generator with Pluto SDR
In the latest video on the Signals Everywhere YouTube channel, Sarah investigates how a PlutoSDR can be used as a Spectrum Analyzer with the SATSAGEN software. The SATSAGEN software is able to work as...
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Receiving Starlink Beacons with an RTL-SDR and LNB
Derek OK9SGC has recently posted a write-up of how they’ve been able to receive the Ku-band beacon signals from the Starlink constellation of communication satellites continually launched by SpaceX...
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Multichannel ALE and GMDSS Decoding with Black Cat Systems Software
Black Cat Systems have recently released two new programs that may be of interest to HF monitoring enthusiasts. The first is a multichannel capable ALE decoder and the second is a multichannel...
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Hacking a La Crosse Weather Station with an RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR and Universal...
Thank you to Ryan K for submitting his latest blog post where he gives an in depth explanation of how he reverse engineered his La Crosse weather station using an RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR and the Universal...
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Browser Based Weather Station Graphs via RTL-SDR, rtl_433 and Dash.plotly
Thank you to Gerrit Polder who has submitted his project where he has used an RTL-SDR and the rtl_433 decoder running on a Raspberry Pi, along with some custom software to create a browser based...
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Guglielmo FM and DAB Receiver Software Updated to V0.3
Thank you to Marco Greco, author of Guglielmo for writing in and noting that v0.3 has now been released. Guglielmo is a Linux based RTL-SDR FM and DAB tuner software that supports SDRs including the...
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Multiband OpenWebRX Receiver via Multiple RTL-SDR Dongles
Thank you to Marko who has submitted his blog post showing how he's set up a multiband OpenWebRX receiver via multiple RTL-SDR dongles connected in server based network architecture. OpenWebRX is a...
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