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Open-Weather: A Browser Based NOAA APT Satellite Image Decoder
Thank you to Sasha Engelmann for letting us know about the release of the Open-Weather community's web browser based NOAA APT decoder. The decoder allows for easy NOAA satellite decoding by allowing...
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Using RTL-SDR to Detect Weak Vibrations in Nanomechanical Resonators Based on...
Thank you to Joel Moser who has submitted news about his teams scientific research work at Soochow University in Suzhou, near Shanghai, China which makes use of RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongles in their...
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Tracking and Decoding Guide for NOAA Weather Satellites
Thank you to Samual Yanz (N7FNV) for submitting a guide that he's created about tracking and decoding NOAA weather satellites. The guide can be downloaded from this link as a PDF. Currently there are...
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Video on Receiving HF Signals with the RTL-SDR Blog V3
Over on YouTube TheSmokinApe has uploaded a video showing how to use the direct sampling mode on RTL-SDR Blog V3 devices to receive HF transmissions, such as the ham bands, short wave and AM broadcast....
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Fissure: An Open Source RF Reverse Engineering Framework
FISSURE (Frequency Independent SDR-Based Signal Understanding and Reverse Engineering) is a recently released open source framework that runs on Linux, and includes a whole suite of previously existing...
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HDFM Version 2 Released: HD Radio Live Weather and Traffic Data Decoder
Back in 2017 we first posted about KYDronePilot's HDFM software which allows users to display the live weather and traffic data embedded into some HDFM signals. If you are in the USA, you might...
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KrakenSDR now Shipped to the Majority of Crowd Supply Backers
If you weren't aware of it, KrakenSDR is our RTL-SDR spinoff project and is a 5-channel coherent RTL-SDR that we have successfully crowdfunded for over on Crowd Supply. KrakenSDR is the successor to...
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SATRAN MK3 Antenna Rotator Hardware Kit Released
Back in January 2021 we posted about the release of the SATRAN product, which is a low cost automatic motorized satellite antenna rotator kit. The rotator is deigned to be used for pointing high gain...
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Frugal Radio KrakenSDR Part 1 – Unboxing, Antennas and Initial Setup
Over on the Frugal Radio YouTube channel Rob has uploaded part one of his two part series on the KrakenSDR. The KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for...
View ArticleRunning KrakenSDR on the Steam Deck
DragonOS creator Aaron has recently put out a few Tweets showing that he has been successful at getting his KrakenSDR to run on a Steam Deck. The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming device made by Valve,...
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Software Defined Radio Academy 2022 Conference Talks
Videos of talks from the Software Defined Radio Academy 2022 (SDRA22) conference have recently been uploaded to YouTube. SDRA22 was held during the HAMRadio World Fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany...
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IEEE Spectrum: Chasing Weather Balloons with Software Defined Radio
Electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has recently shared a story about how RTL-SDRs can be used for chasing weather balloons. With an RTL-SDR, antenna and appropriate decoding software, it is...
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KrakenSDR Locates a TETRA Transmitter
Over on YouTube F4IPO has posted a video of him using a KrakenSDR and the KrakenSDR Android mapping app to quickly locate the source of a TETRA transmission at 427 MHz in France. The KrakenSDR is our...
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An Inside Look into FlightAware’s RTL-SDR
Over on the FlightAware blog, Hardware and Software Engineers Eric Tran and Ziquan Wang have put up a blog post showing how they have designed the FlightAware RTL-SDR hardware and software, and detail...
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Open Source Military TAK Android App Supports RTL-SDR ADS-B Tracking
ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit) is an Android app used by some branches of the US military for visualizing geospatial information such as enemy and friendly positions, as well as any other...
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Frugal Radio KrakenSDR Part 2: Vehicle Direction Finding Tests
Over on the Frugal Radio YouTube channel Rob has uploaded part two of his two part series on the KrakenSDR. The KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for...
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SatDump ReWork Release with Significant Feature and GUI Updates
SatDump is a popular piece of software that can be used with RTL-SDRs and other software defined radios for decoding images from a wide array of weather imaging satellites including GOES, GK-2A, NOAA...
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Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has in the past created a portable homemade 'tricorder' which was a boxed up Raspberry Pi with multiple sensors including an RTL-SDR. One new application...
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SDRSharp Big Guide Book Updated to V5.3
Paolo Romani (IZ1MLL) has recently released version 5.3 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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Radio Jove Spectrograph Hardware and Software
NASA's Radio Jove is a project that enables students and amateur scientists from around the world to observe and analyze the HF radio emissions from Jupiter, our Sun and our galaxy using easy to...
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