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Using the GPIO Ports on the RTL2832U Chip
The RTL-SDR uses the RTL2832U chip as its ADC and USB interface processing chip. It also has 8 GPIO (General Purpose IO) ports available which are by default unused by the original DVB-T dongle...
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SpyVerter Upconverter now for sale
The team behind the Airspy software defined radio (as well has the popular SDR# software package) have just released the SpyVerter upconverter for sale. Upconverters shift HF frequencies (0 – 30 MHz)...
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SDR Presentations Requested for FOSDEM
The Free and Open Source Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) is looking for SDR presentations to give at this years conference in Brussels, Belgium which will be held on January the 80th & 31st of January....
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Raspberry Pi Docker Images for ADS-B and ACARS with the RTL-SDR
Docker is a Linux based platform which allows you to build and deploy complex applications into a self contained “container” package that contains all the needed applications and dependencies. The...
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ARM Radio: A Cheap SDR built out of an ARM Processor and not much more
A software defined radio can theoretically be made out of little more than a microprocessor with an onboard ADC and some DSP code. This is exactly what Alberto di Bene (I2PHD) achieved by connecting an...
View ArticleUsing the RTL-SDR as a Panadapter for a Kenwood TS-570D
Over on YouTube user SA6 HAM has uploaded a video showing how to modify a Kenwood TS-570D so that an RTL-SDR dongle can be connected to its first IF stage in order to create a low cost panadapter. A...
View ArticleHak5: Reverse Engineering Radio Protocols with SDR and the Yardstick One
Over on YouTube the popular security and hacking themed channel Hak5 have created two videos together with Mike Ossmann (creator of the HackRF and Yardstick One) that give a good introduction and...
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New Mini RTL-SDR Dongle Available from Nooelec
The Nooelec store have recently come out with a new small RTL-SDR model called the Nano 2, which appears to an improved version of the old tiny square dongles. These new ones are sized at 24mm x 21mm x...
View Articlertl_power_fftw: An improved version of rtl_power designed for radio astronomy
As the RTL-SDR’s maximum usable bandwidth is about 2.8 MHz, programs like rtl_power were written to scan over wider bandwidths by quickly hopping between different swaths of the frequency spectrum and...
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An online Software Defined Radio training course
We’ve recently found what looks to be a new online video based course that uses the RTL-SDR to teach basic software defined radio topics. The course is not free, but costs only $1.99 and the first...
View ArticleSoftware defined radio talks from Defcon 23
Defcon is a yearly conference that focuses on computer security and hacking talks. In recent years they have included a “Wireless Village” section that includes talks about all things wireless. This...
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JAERO: A new RTL-SDR compatible decoder for Inmarsat AERO signals
Back in August of this year we showed how it was possible to use an RTL-SDR dongle, satellite antenna, LNA and decoding software to receive and decode STD-C EGC signals from Inmarsat satellites. We...
View ArticleLive Right Now: The 12th Cyberspectrum Software Defined Radio Meetup
Cyberspectrum is a monthly software defined radio meetup that is held in San Francisco. During this meetup presenters show and discuss their SDR related work. The 12th Cyberspectrum meetup is occurring...
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QSpectrumAnalyzer Updated to support rtl_power_fftw
QSpectrumAnalyzer is a Linux GUI for rtl_power which allows you to easily do wideband scans that are much wider than the RTL-SDR’s maximum bandwidth. RTL_power works by quickly switching between...
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Chasing Ionosondes with an RTL-SDR Dongle
Mario Filippi a regular contributor to our blog has recently written in with another article of his. This time he’s submitted an interesting article about ionosondes and how he listens to and watches...
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Setting up an RTL-SDR based APT/Meteor Satellite Weather Station Receiver
Recently a reader of our blog, Initrd, wrote in to let us know about a new tutorial he created that shows how to set up a dual NOAA APT and Meteor LRPT weather satellite monitoring station with an...
View ArticleTesting the MIX4ALL Downconverter on L-Band
Adam (9a4QV) is well known in the RTL-SDR community for creating and selling the LNA4ALL low noise amplifier and several filter circuits as well. Now Adam has uploaded on his YouTube channel a new...
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Review of the SpyVerter Upconverter
The SpyVerter is a new upconverter that has recently gone on sale. It is created by Youssef (creator of the Airspy SDR and programmer of SDR#) and Bob W9RAN (of rantechnology.com and...
View ArticleHak5: Online RTL-SDR WebSDR’s with OpenWebRX
On this episode of Hak5 (a popular hacking and security themed YouTube channel) Darren and Shannon discuss OpenWebRX, a SDR web broadcasting and remote control tool that is compatible with the RTL-SDR....
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SvxLink Now Supports the RTL-SDR
SvxLink is an EchoLink and general purpose voice services system for controlling ham radio repeaters. A repeater is a radio tower that receives a weak transmission from a handheld or remote radio and...
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