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An HF Ham Radio SSB/AM/FM/CW Transmitter made from a Raspberry Pi Pico and...
Over on Hackaday we've seen a story about a Raspberry Pi Pico based software defined radio transmitter that is capable of transmitting SSB, AM, FM and CW anywhere between 0.5 - 30 MHz. The design...
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Tech Minds: Video on DJI Drone Detection on the AntSDR E200
Just recently we posted about the release of some firmware for the AntSDR E200 which allows it to decode DJI DroneID. DroneID is a protocol designed to transmit the position of the drone and operator...
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Building a Drone Tracking Radar with the ADALM-PHASER and PlutoSDR
The ADALM-PHASER is a kit designed to provide experience with phased array beamforming and radar concepts. The kit consists of a PlutoSDR, mixers, LO synthesizer, ADAR1000 beamformer chip, LNAs and...
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A Tribute to Amateur Radio Astronomer Job Geheniau (Job’s Radio Telescope)
Job Geheniau was someone whose amateur radio astronomy projects were often featured on RTL-SDR Blog (often referred to as Job's Radio Telescope). It with great sadness that we have recently learned...
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SDR++ Android APK now supports the RTL-SDR Blog V4
Thank you to SDR++ developer Ryzerth who has let us know that RTL-SDR Blog V4 support has recently been added to the nightly build of the APK. With this release, Android is now fully supported by the...
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Multiple Comprehensive Tutorials on Weather Satellite Decoding
Over on his website "Jacopo's Lair" IU1QPR (@original_lego11) who is also a developer for SatDump has written up many tutorials about weather satellite decoding that involve the use of SatDump. SatDump...
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SDRplay Launches the RSP1B
SDRplay, a manufacturer of popular low cost software defined radio devices have just launched their "RSP1B" model. This is a refresh of their popular lowest price model, the RSP1A. The changes include...
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A KrakenSDR to TAK Interface Converter
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Aaron, who recently found a Kraken-to-TAK converter made by "SignalMedic" and "dngrssgnls" which converts the KrakenSDR bearing output data to "Cursor on Target" (COT)...
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Tech Minds: A Review of the SDRplay RSP1B and SDRConnect Preview 2 Demonstration
A few days ago we posted about the recent release of the SDRplay RSP1B software defined radio, which is an upgrade over the previous RSP1A model. The changes include a new steel enclosure,...
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FOSDEM 2024 Videos now Available: Synthetic Aperture WiFi RADAR, GPU DSP...
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer’s Meeting) is a yearly conference that took place in Brussels, Belgium on 3 - 4 February 2024. This conference featured a room on Software Defined Radio and...
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Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action Against Owner of X Account that Tracks...
Jack Sweeney is a student who operates various social media and websites dedicated to tracking the private jets of celebrities and notable persons. In the past he's drawn the ire of Elon Musk who...
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A Low Cost P25 Police Scanner with RTL-SDR, Raspberry Pi 5 and SDRTrunk
Thank you to Mike for writing in and sharing with us his video detailing how he makes use of a Raspberry Pi 5, touch LCD Screen and RTL-SDR to create a portable and low cost P25 police scanner. Mike...
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Canada Moves to Ban Flipper Zero and Possibly Software Defined Radios
Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister of Public safety has recently declared that they plan to ban devices "used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the...
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Windows Binary of GQRX Released
Gqrx has long been one of the most commonly used pieces of software defined radio software for Linux and MacOS. However, it has never had a Windows release until just two days ago when the team...
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Tech Minds: Taking a look at the new HackRF PortaPack Mayhem Version 2 Firmware
A few days ago the programmers of the popular Mayhem firmware for the HackRF Portapack released version V2.0.0. The new version includes multiple improvements specified in the release text below. We...
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WarDragon Passive Radar with Blah2 and ADS-B Delay-Doppler Truth
Over on his YouTube channel, Aaron, creator of DragonOS and the WarDragon kit has uploaded a video showing the Blah2 passive radar software working with an SDRplay RSPDuo. In the video Aaron shows some...
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SatDump V1.1.4 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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Marine Vessel AIS and AirNav ShipXplorer
AirNav systems are a company that run radarbox.com, one of the big ADS-B aggregation tracking sites for tracking aircraft around the world. They also run a similar platform called ShipXplorer for...
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RTL433 Plugin for SDRSharp Updated
Back in 2021 we posted about a SDR# plugin that allowed you to interface with rtl_433 from within SDR#. RTL433 (rtl_433) is a commonly used RTL-SDR command line program that provides decoders for a...
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Spacewalker LNA 434 MHz In Prelaunch at CrowdSupply
Thank you to Zoltan and team for submitting news of the prelaunch of their Spacewalker LNA 434 MHz. Spacewalker LNA is designed to improve reception of PocketSat and Cubesat satellite signals when...
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