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Reading Electric Meters with RTL-SDR and HomeAssistant
Over on his blog Jeff Sandberg has posted a writeup detailing how he combined RTL-SDR, rtl_amr, and HomeAssistant to decode wireless data from his Itron power meter, and create useful graphs showing...
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Deep-Tempest: Eavesdropping on HDMI via SDR and Deep Learning
Over the years we've posted several times about the TEMPEST applications of software-defined radio. TEMPEST aka (Van Eck Phreaking) is when you listen to the unintentional RF emissions of electronics...
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KrakenSDR: Kraken Pro Cloud Mapper and Other Updates
This post is about the KrakenSDR, one of our products from our sister company KrakenRF. If you weren't already aware, KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for...
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Exploring HD Radio and Other Signals While on Holiday
Over on his YouTube channel, Simon has uploaded a video showing how while on holiday he was able to explore the various HD Radio stations available around the USA. If you are in the USA, you might...
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Using the RTL-SDR Blog V3 as a DVB-T Receiver in OpenPli Enigma2
The RTL-SDR hardware began its life as a DVB-T TV receiver USB stick, but these days it is rarely used for this purpose. However, in countries where DVB-T hasn't been upgraded to DVB-T2 it is still...
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RadioWorld Magazine Article about Software Defined Radios for Shortwave...
The latest August edition of the RadioWorld Magazine has included an article by James Careless about the use of software defined radios for shortwave radio listening. RadioWorld is a magazine targeted...
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Tracking Down an ATIS Tower with KrakenSDR
Over on YouTube The Comms Channel has uploaded a video showing how they used a KrakenSDR to track down the location of an ATIS transmission tower. If you weren't already aware, KrakenSDR is our...
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Tech Minds: Reviewing the Raspberry Pi 5 For Radio Amateurs Book by Elektor
Over on the Tech Minds YouTube channel, Matt has uploaded a video where he reviews a new book by Elektor titled "Raspberry Pi 5 For Radio Amateurs" (€5 off coupon code "Techminds"). The book is all...
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Easvesdropping on HDMI with TEMPESTSDR and SDRplay
Over on YouTube "Sam's eXperiments logs" have uploaded a video showing how he was able to succeed when using TEMPESTSDR to eavesdrop on HDMI cables with his SDRplay. TEMPESTSDR software combined with a...
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BSidesPGH 2024 Talk: Introduction to Software Defined Radio For Offensive and...
Over on the YouTube channel "SecPGH" a talk by Grey Fox titled "Introduction to Software Defined Radio For Offensive and Defensive Operations" has been uploaded from the BSidesPGH 2024 conference....
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Receiving Weather Images from NOAA Weather Satellites with an RTL-SDR Blog V4...
Over on YouTube Baltic Lab has uploaded a video showing how he was able to successfully use an RTL-SDR Blog V4 and the included multipurpose dipole antenna kit to receive images from polar-orbiting...
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DeepRad – Modular RTL-SDR System Now Crowdfunding on Crowd Supply
Back in May, we posted about the upcoming DeepRad, which is advertised as a modular RTL-SDR system, providing RTL-SDR PCB boards without USB and SMA connectors that are seated into a custom...
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Updates to the Lego Pi Radio Project
Back in 2018 we first posted about JJ's Lego Pi Radio, which was an all-in-one RTL-SDR + Raspberry Pi based FM and internet radio system enclosed in Lego. More recently JJ has written in again sharing...
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mmng-ui: A Text User Interface for Multimon-NG
Thank you to Jason for writing in and sharing with his his recently released software "mmng-ui" which is a TUI (text user interface) for Multimon-NG. If you were unaware, Multimon-NG is multipurpose...
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Project H Line 3D: Beginners Guide to Hydrogen Line Antenna Fabrication,...
Thank you to Alex Petit Jr who wanted to submit 'Project H Line 3D' which is a collection of document and programs designed to be a beginners guide to antenna fabrication, reception, recording,...
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ARMSDR.COM: Tracking Support for Windows 11 ARM64 Compatible SDR Applications
We've recently come across an X post by Jamie Vital who notes that he has created a site called armsdr.com which is dedicated to tracking which SDR-related software has support for Windows 11 on ARM64....
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Project H Line 3D: YouTube Talk
Last week we posted about Alex Petit Jr's 'Project H Line 3D' which is a collection of documents and programs designed to be a beginner's guide to antenna fabrication, reception, recording, software...
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Building an “HF Helper” for Improving RTL-SDR HF Reception
Over on YouTube Amateur Radio VK3YE has uploaded a video showing his 'HF Helper' project. The HF Helper is a tunable HF filter and attenuator that helps improve HF reception when in the presence of...
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Turning an Elecrow Pi Terminal into a Standalone SDR Radio with an RTL-SDR...
Over on YouTube Mirko Pavleski has uploaded a video showing how he took a US$199 "Pi Terminal-7” 1024*600 All-In-One Module Raspberry Pi" from Elecrow, and combined it with an RTL-SDR Blog V4 to create...
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SatDump 1.2.1 Released
SatDump is a popular program used to receive and decode images and other data from various weather satellites. SatDump works great RTL-SDR Blog dongles and with our Discovery Dish, an easy-to-use dish...
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