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A RS41 and DFM09 Radiosonde Decoder Plugin for SDR++
A new decoder for RS41 and DFM09 radiosondes has been released as a plugin for SDR++ by dbDexter. A radiosonde is a sensor package with RF transmitter that is attached to a weather balloon....
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Nils Reviews our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Active Patch Antenna
Over on his blog Nils Schiffhauer (DK8OK) has recently uploaded a review of our RTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band Patch Antenna. This is a satellite patch antenna designed for experimenters who want to...
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A Comprehensive Beginners Guide to HRPT Weather Satellite Reception
Over on his blog Derek (OK9SGC) has recently uploaded a very comprehensive beginners guide to receiving HRPT weather satellite images. HRPT reception can be a little daunting as it requires a good...
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Frugal Radio: Listening in to Live Theatre Wireless Microphones with an SDR
In one of his latest videos, Rob from the Frugal Radio YouTube channel gives us an interesting alternative way to enjoy a theatre show by demonstrating what he heard on his Airspy SDR when taking it to...
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Video Tutorial: Decoding HD Radio on Windows with nrsc5-gui
Thank you to "Double A" for submitting his video that shows how to install and run the RTL-SDR compatible HD Radio decoder nrsc5-gui on a Windows machine. We've posted about nrsc5-gui and the modified...
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SDR++ Server Beta Now Available
SDR++ is a general purpose receiver program compatible with almost any software defined radio including the RTL-SDR. Recent developments have seen the author release a beta of "SDR++ server" which is...
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A List of Crowd Sourced SDR Data Exchanges
Over on Reddit u/onemindisbuddha has put together an interesting list highlighting the number of crowd sourced data aggregators that use RTL-SDRs or similar hardware. A common example of a data...
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A Warning to Ukraine Based RTL-SDR Hobbyists
While we usually don't encourage politics on this blog, with the possibility of a Ukraine invasion by Russia we just wanted to issue a general warning to Ukrainian SDR owners. Last year we saw...
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New GNU Radio Beginners Tutorials Available
A new set of beginners tutorials for the GNU Radio platform have been released on the GNU Radio Wiki. GNU Radio is an open source development toolkit for signals processing and is commonly used to...
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Tech Minds: 10 Common Mistakes Made With Software Defined Radio
Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel has recently uploaded a video highlighting 10 common mistakes made with software defined radio. The topics go over software choices, driver installation, coax...
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Turbine: Capture and Stream all Frequencies in a Trunked Radio System with a...
Over on Reddit we've discovered an interesting program called 'Turbine' that has recently been open sourced by the author. This program connects to a wideband capable SDR such as a HackRF and captures...
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Demonstrating the New 3D Maps in SDRAngel
In December of last year we posted about a video demonstrating the many features that the SDRAngel software comes standard with. Recently they've added a new feature which are 3D maps that can be used...
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rsadsb: Terminal Based Aircraft Radar on the Raspberry Pi
Thank you to Wayne Campbell for submitting news about the release of the latest 0.5.0 iteration of his RTL-SDR compatible 'rsadsb' software package that plots ADS-B aircraft positions on a terminal...
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Samy Kamkar Talks Hardware Security on Hackster Café
Samy Kamkar is famous in the wireless and hardware information security scene for his research on various security exploits including methods to defeat rolling code security, and using a children's toy...
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New HAM FM and ADS-B Radar Android Apps
Thank you to James Mainwaring for submitting news about the release of his two new RTL-SDR compatible Android Apps "Ham FM Radio (RTL-SDR)" and "ADS-B Radar (RTL-SDR)". The Ham FM Radio app allows the...
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Using the New KrakenSDR Software with DF-Aggregator and a KerberosSDR
KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent RTL-SDR product that we have successfully crowdfunded for over on CrowdSupply. KrakenSDR is the successor to our previous 4-channel product called the KerberosSDR...
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DAB+ Decoder Welle.io Version 2.4 Released and YouTube Demonstration Video
Version 2.4 of the RTL-SDR compatible DAB/DAB+ decoder called welle.io has recently been released for download on GitHub. The main changes include various bug fixes, the addition of Windows 11 support,...
View ArticleRussian Bomber HF Activity, Amateur Radio / SDR Hobbyist Warning Again
With Russian missiles now falling in the Ukraine it seems that the worst has occurred and a full scale invasion has started. We wish for the safety of all Ukrainian citizens and to that end we wanted...
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Open-Weather: Contribute to a Snapshot of the Climate Crisis Through NOAA...
Open-weather is an art project made up of a community of volunteers who capture NOAA weather satellite images with RTL-SDR or similar devices. The images are then collected and stitched together to...
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Running an RTL-SDR on an old OpenWRT Router
With the rising cost of computing hardware like Raspberry Pi's, Jaime Badillo decided to instead make use of one of a cheap old router, and set it up as an RTL-SDR server. To do this, Jaime took his...
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