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A Video Demonstration on Cracking a GSM Capture File
Over on YouTube Rob VK8FOES has been uploading some fairly comprehensive demonstrations and tutorials showing how to crack a GSM capture file which can be recorded with any SDR. It's well known now...
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Passive Radar Sensing via Ambient Radio Noise from the Sun and Jupiter
Recently Dr. Sean Peters from the Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, CA presented an interesting webinar titled "Leveraging Ambient Radio Noise for Passive Radar Sensing of the Terrestrial and...
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Reverse Engineering a Wirelessly Controlled Adjustable Bed with a HackRF and...
Over on his blog Chris Laplante has written up a post showing how he was able to reverse engineer his wirelessly controlled adjustable "TEMPUR-Contour Elite Breeze" bed. Originally the bed did have an...
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Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter
Flipper Zero is an affordable handheld RF device for pentesters and hackers. It is not based on SDR technology, however it uses a CC1101 chip, a digitally controlled RX/TX radio that is capable of...
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An RTL-SDR telemetry decoder for the soon to be launched MRC-100 CubeSat
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting news about the MRC-100 Hungarian CubeSat that is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 on June 12. Zoltan notes that the MRC-100 is the successor to the...
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GNU Radio Conference 2023 to be held September 5 – 9: Call for Participation...
Thank you to Marcus Müller for letting us know that a call for participation and registration for GRCon'23 (GNU Radio Conference 2023) is currently open. GNU Radio conference talks are generally about...
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Progress Updates on the GSG Universal Radio Test Instrument (URIT)
In May we posted about how Great Scott Gadgets (GSG), the team behind the HackRF SDR and several other popular products, are in the early stages of developing a new type of SDR product called the...
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DragonOS: KrakenSDR and DF Aggregator Connected via a 1km WiFi Link
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR software packages including a tool called DF Aggregator, which can be used for radio direction finding with a...
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TechMinds: Detecting Meteors With Software Defined Radio
In his latest video Matt from the TechMinds YouTube channel has shown how it's possible to detect the RF echoes of meteors falling in the earths atmosphere which a software defined radio. The concept...
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CrowdFunding for the uSDR has started: A $299 M.2 TX/RX 300-3700 MHz, 30.72...
Back in May we posted about pre-release news of the uSDR, a duplex TX & RX capable software defined radio, with a frequency range of 300-3700 MHz, and up to 30.72 MSPS of sampling rate. It also has...
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Video showing Flipper Zero Smoking a Smart Meter may be Fake
A few days ago we posted a YouTube video by Peter Fairlie which shows him using a Flipper Zero to turn a smart meter on and off, eventually causing the smart meter to destroy itself by releasing the...
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Airspy 2023 Summer Sale: 15% Off All Airspy Products
Airspy is currently holding their annual summer sale which gives 15% off their line of products until June 25. The sale brings the price of the popular Airspy receiver products down to the following in...
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OpenWebRX+ Updates: HFDL, ISM Band, FLEX, SELCALL decoders added
Back in March of this year we posted about an OpenWebRX fork called OpenWebRX+, which adds multiple built-in and ready to use decoders such as SSTV, AIS, CW and RTTY. OpenWebRX+ is a fork of the...
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Testing DAB Decoders: SDRAngel versus Welle.io
Thank you to the team from DXing.org for submitting their video where they compare the DAB decoding performance of SDRAngel and Welle.io using an RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongle. Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB)...
View ArticlePossible fixes for new versions of SDR# crashing with RTL-SDRs
SDR# (SDRSharp) is our recommend software for RTL-SDRs due to it's high popularity in the community, relatively simple to learn and use interface, and host of features and third party plugins...
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Meteor M2-3 Now In Orbit and Transmitting Weather Images
Meteor-M satellites are Russian owned weather imaging satellites that are in polar orbit. They transmit images to earth in the LRPT format at 137 MHz, making them almost as easy to receive as the older...
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TechMinds: A Brief Review of the SDR 101, a Clone of DeepSDR 101
The DeepSDR 101 V1 was a handheld software defined radio with built in LCD screen, a tuning range of 100 kHz - 149 MHz, and a bandwidth of 192 kHz. It appears to be an original design by Chinese...
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TechMinds: Building a Handheld MILSAT SATCOM Antenna with 3D Printed Parts...
In his latest video Matt from the TechMinds YouTube channel shows us how to build a home made turnstile antenna for receiving the MILSAT SATCOM satellites where radio pirates from Brazil and other...
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KrakenSDR Low Power FM Transmitter Hunt
If you weren't already aware, KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for applications like radio direction finding. KrakenSDR is in stock and can be purchased...
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Saveitforparts: Receiving Images from the new Russian Satellite Meteor M2-3
A few days ago we posted about the successful launch and deployment of the latest Russian Meteor M2-3 weather satellite. The satellite is currently actively transmitting LRPT weather images. Over on...
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