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Nooelec RTL-SDR giveaway at AmateurRadio.com
AmateurRadio.com has teamed up with Nooelec.com to give away RTL-SDR packages to 10 hams. To be eligible to enter the competition, you must be a registered amateur radio operator, and you must comment...
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Ham Radio Linux LiveDVD Ver. 14 supports RTL-SDR, HackRF and more
Andy, amateur radio operator KB1OIQ, has released the Version 14 of his Ham Radio Linux LiveDVD containing programs focused on amateur radio and SDR operations. This is a remastered version of Ubuntu...
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Improved digital voice P25 decoding with DSDPlus
We previously posted about the DSD digital decoding software and it’s usefulness with the RTL-SDR dongle and other signal sources. Now there’s a newly released version known as DSDPlus which promises...
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Sniffing and decoding NRF24L01+ and bluetooth LE packets for under $30
Omri writes: In this long post I am going to describe my journey to sniff and decode popular digital wireless protocols off the air for very cheap. So cheap practicality anyone can obtain the...
View Article30C3 video: Monitoring the Spectrum – Building Your Own Distributed RF...
At the recent 30C3 conference in Hamburg, Germany, Andrew Reiter outlined his efforts in using inexpensive RTL-SDR dongles to build a distributed RF scanner array for monitoring and spectrum mapping....
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RTL_FM_Python: An API and web interface for controlling RTL_FM
Here’s an interesting piece of open source code known as RTL_FM_Python for controlling the RTL-SDR dongle. “This is a Python library built upon the RTL-SDR project and allows you to use the RTL-SDR...
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RTLAMR: an RTL-SDR receiver for 900 MHz smart meters
It never ceases to amaze how many projects are developed making use of the RTL-SDR dongle. Bemasher has developed a software tool which interprets the signals in the 900 MHz ISM band sent from smart...
View ArticleRTL-SDR wide spectrum analyzer
Claudio Giuliani has designed an RTL-SDR based wide spectrum analyzer. The code is available on AlterVista. Software prerequisites are a Linux box (no Windows/OSX version) with Gnuradio and rtl_sdr...
View ArticleHak5 video: quadcopter with WiFi enabled Linux computer and RTL-SDR
What happens when you send up a quadcopter equipped with a Linux box, WiFi and an RTL-SDR dongle? Darren and company from Hak5 decided to find out. Their project used the SDR to receive ADS-B signals...
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Garage door signal hacking using RTL-SDR and TI Chronos watch
Students Ido Livneh and Gil Freidlin from Tel Aviv University have been experimenting with garage door opener signals using the TI Chronos watch and RTL-SDR dongle. Their technique involves using the...
View ArticleViewing a VHS tape using RTL-SDR and TV Sharp software
Here’s a different and unconventional way to view a VHS tape (as if VHS tapes aren’t considered unusual enough today). DogsRNiceMineCraft posted this video on YouTube showing video received using an...
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Chrome RTL-SDR receiver app updated
When it comes to the RTL-SDR dongle, there’s an app for that! (At least a Chrome app.) The Chrome app store has the updated RTL-SDR Radio Receiver app available for download. It’s free and open source...
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YOUSDR remote RTL-SDR software
Sixuniform has released YOUSDR v0.1 Alpha, an RTL-SDR webinterface for Raspian / Raspberry Pi. This is a web-wrapper for the rtl-sdr softwares. Currently it commands rtl_fm, rtl_tcp and dump1090. The...
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Android flight tracker uses ADSB data from RTL-SDR
Nikos has developed an Android app which works with the RTL-SDR dongle to demodulate the ADSB signal from aircraft and overlays the position of the aircraft on a high resolution offline map. So the...
View ArticleBuilding a better RTL-SDR TCXO
Craig posted an article describing how he built a 28.8MHz RTL-SDR TCXO, that is available on github: Here’s a scratch-built 28.8MHz TCXO capable of +-1ppm stability from 0C-55C; best of all, it’s not...
View ArticleMFJ-1708SDR transmit/receive switch for SDR receivers
Here’s a demonstration of the MFJ-1708SDR transmit/receive automatic relay switch from YouTube channel HamRadioConcepts . Here is an interesting device, for use with your SDRplay or other SDR dongle...
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Tutorial: Setting up a low cost QRP (FT8, JT9, WSPR etc) monitoring station...
A detailed tutorial on how to set up a cheap QRP monitoring station using an RTL-SDR V3 and a Raspberry Pi 3 from rtl-sdr.com This tutorial is inspired by dg0opk’s videos and blog post on monitoring...
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An open source VOR receiver for Airspy and RTL-SDR
A simple VOR receiver for Airspy and RTL-SDR called Vortrack by Thierry Leconte, that is available on GitHub: In the past we’ve seen several other posts about RTL-SDRs being used to decode VOR...
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A low cost 2-4 GHz Downconverter from off the shelf dev boards
Ian Wraith designed and built a low cost 2-4 GHz downconverter for an SDR, that is available on Github: I recently became interested in exploring some of the signals found in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The...
View ArticleA homebrew all-in-one RTL-SDR with screen and control knobs running on a mini pc
In this video, Pablo Sala (KI7OJL) shows how to build your own all-in-one receiver based on an RTL-SDR. Via RTL-SDR.com.
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