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Elon Musk’s Twitter Suspends Live ADS-B Aircraft Tracking Accounts Including...
As a reaction to an altercation with a stalker that endangered Elon Musk's child, Twitter has taken action to suspend all Twitter accounts that involve the real time tracking of aircraft and...
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Watch Duty: California Wildfire Watch Driven by RTL-SDRs
Over on Hackaday we've seen an interesting post about the non-profit "Watch Duty" wildfire reporting smart phone app for Californians. Several populated regions of California are extremely prone to...
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Tech Minds: Running the SDR++ Multiplatform Server on MacOS, Windows and...
SDR++ is an open source receiver program compatible with most software defined radios including the RTL-SDR that has been going through rapid development making it now one of the top software choices....
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Real Time Speech to Text from Radio Speech via DragonOS, SDR4Space, Mosquitto...
Real time high quality speech to text is now possible with OpenAI's WhisperCPP, a high-performance and open source automatic speech recognition model. In his latest video on YouTube, Aaron demonstrates...
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Tech Minds: Testing a Radiosonde Decoder Plugin for SDR++
In one of his latest YouTube videos, Matt who runs the Tech Minds YouTube channels has posted a demonstration of the Radiosonde decoder plugin for SDR++ called sdrpp_radionsonde. SDR++ is a software...
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Vitality GOES: A Web Interface for Displaying Weather Images from SatDump...
Thank you to Carl Reinemann (aka usradioguy) for submitting his article about Vitality GOES. Vitality GOES is an open source tool that displays the weather satellite images received by SatDump and/or...
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SDRSharp Big Guide Book Updated to V5.5
Paolo Romani (IZ1MLL) has recently released version 5.5 of his SDRSharp PDF Guide. The book is available for download on the Airspy downloads page, just scroll down to the title "SDR# Big Book" and...
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AntRunner: Testing A Low Cost Satellite Antenna Rotator
Weather satellites that transmit HRPT give you high resolution uncompressed images of the earth. With an SDR, L-band feed, 60 cm or larger satellite dish and LNA+filter these images can be received by...
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The SDRSharp ListenInfo Plugin
SDR# is a popular software defined radio program that is compatible with RTL-SDR, Airspy and several other SDR devices. One feature is the ability for third parties to develop plugins for the software....
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SDRangel Now Available on Android: Mobile ADS-B, AIS, APT, Digital Voice,...
SDRangel is a free open source software defined radio program that is compatible with many SDRs, including RTL-SDRs. SDRAngel is set apart from other programs because of it's huge swath of built in...
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RTL-SDR Blog V3 with Dipole Antenna Set back in stock at Amazon USA (New...
Just a quick note to say that our RTL-SDR Blog V3 with Dipole Antenna Set is now back in stock at Amazon USA! This set includes the new black dongle enclosure design. The RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongle by...
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SIGpi: A Signal Intelligence Focused Linux “Go-Kit”
Thank you to Joe NE2Z for sharing his Linux distribution called SIGpi. SIGpi is an installable Linux distribution for Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi 3/4 that focuses on providing multiple open source SDR...
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Conference Presentation on SDR Radio for Hackers and Nosy Nellies
At last years F-Con Jim Gatwood presented a talk titled "SDR Radio for Hackers and Nosy Nellies". The two hour talk has recently been uploaded to YouTube and covers the basics of software defined radio...
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YouTube Satellite Decoding Series
Over on YouTube @dereksgc has been putting together a comprehensive video series on weather, amateur and other satellite reception. His series starts with receiving images from NOAA APT satellites,...
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rtl_433 ported to ESP32 microcontrollers with CC1101 or SX127X Transceiver Chips
Receiving wireless sensors operating in the unlicensed ISM band has been made almost universal with rtl_433 and RTL-SDRs. However, recently rtl_433 has been ported over for use on ESP32...
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The Meteor M2 LRPT Weather Satellite has Failed
Meteor M2 is a Russian meteorological satellite whose LRPT transmissions at 137 MHz were relatively easily received by anyone with a simple satellite antenna and an RTL-SDR and computer. Meteor M2 was...
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ADS-B Exchange Acquired by Private Firm JETNET
Today news has come out that ADS-B Exchange (ADSBx) founder Dan Streufert has sold ADSBx to a private firm called JETNET for (an estimated) $20 million. Dan was the sole owner of ADSBx, and after the...
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Slovenian whistleblower who was convicted for reporting a flaw in Police...
Back in May 2016 we posted about Dejan Ornig, a then 26 year old student at the University of Maribor's Faculty of Criminal Justice, Slovenia who was almost imprisoned for using an RTL-SDR and finding...
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Transmitting radio waves without power
Researchers have discovered a way to transmit information wirelessly without power, simply by opening an closing a switch that connects a resistor to an antenna. This effect does not violate any...
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AirNav Systems Launch AIS Aggregator ShipXplorer.com
AirNav Systems are behind the RadarBox ADS-B tracking aggregator, one of several companies that use data obtained by volunteers running RTL-SDR dongles to collect ADS-B flight data from all over the...
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