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RTL-SDR Blog Units Back in Stock + Polling on Future Upgrades
After a few delays our RTL-SDR blog TCXO/SMA/Metal Case units are back in stock at the Chinese warehouses. The restocking of Amazon USA will follow shortly, and they should be ready for purchase on...
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KiwiSDR Kickstarter Successfully Funded
Last month KiwiSDR started their fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. The kickstarter has now completed. The goal was to raise $50,000 USD and they have well surpassed that mark by reaching $70,757...
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Receiving Iridium Satellites with a HackRF Portapack and Cheap Antenna
Recently Jared Boone, creator of the HackRF portapack posted on his blog about his experience with trying to receive Iridium satellite signals. The HackRF is 8-bit, ~0 – 6 GHz, RX/TX capable SDR, and...
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SDRplay Updates: Android Support, ADS-B Decoder Upgrades and Acquisition of...
The SDRplay team have been hard at work during the last few weeks. First they announced beta support for Android via SDRtouch, then they announced an improved ADS-B decoder, and finally they have just...
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LimeSDR (Previously Sodera) Now Crowdfunding: $299 100 kHz – 3.8 GHz 12-Bit...
Previously we posted news about the upcoming release of SoDeRa/LimeSDR, a low cost 100 kHz – 3.8 GHz range RX/TX capable software defined radio. Due to copyright reasons SoDeRa have renamed the product...
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Airspy Mini: $99 USD, 24 – 1800 MHz, 12-Bit RX SDR Now Available for Preorder
Over the last few months we’d constantly heard hints that the Airspy team was working on a miniaturized version of their popular Airspy SDR. Today the Airspy Mini has been released for preorder. The...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF to perform a replay attack against a Jeep Patriot
Over on his blog Caleb Madrigal has written a short article that describes how he was able to perform a simple relay attack against a Jeep Patriot vehicle which allowed him to unlock and lock his car...
View ArticleA Comparison between the RTL-SDR and SDRplay
Over on YouTube user Lan Party Hosting has uploaded a video showing a comparison between the RTL-SDR and SDRplay. In his tests he receives various HF and VHF/UHF signals and records their SNR values in...
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Hydrogen Line Observation with an RTL-SDR
The RTL-SDR can be used for many interesting radio astronomy applications such as observing the Hydrogen line. Hydrogen atoms randomly emit photons at a wavelength of 21cm (1420.4058 MHz). Normally a...
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Second Flock of Early Bird LimeSDR’s for Sale: $249 USD
The LimeSDR is a new transmit capable software defined radio with a 100 kHz – 3.8 GHz frequency range, 12-bit ADC and 61.44 MHz bandwidth which is currently seeking crowdfunding. A few days ago the...
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EM-ID: RTL-SDR based Tag-Less ID of Electrical Devices via Eletromagnetic...
Back in November 2015 we posted about Disney Research’s EM-Sense which was an RTL-SDR based smart watch that was able to actually sense and detect the exact (electronic) object the wearer was touching....
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GNU Radio for Windows + Decoding ATSC HDTV on GNU Radio for Windows
Recently an updated set of binaries and build scripts were posted for GNU Radio for Windows. GNU Radio is a graphical digital signal processing language that is compatible with many software defined...
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RTLSDR4Everyone Review: SDRplay RSP vs RTL-SDR
Akos of the rtlsdr4everyone blog has recently written up a comparison of the RTL-SDR and SDRplay. The SDRplay is a $149 USD software defined radio with a 100 kHz to 2 GHz frequency range, a 12-bit ADC,...
View ArticleP25 Decoding: OP25 + RTL-SDR vs a Uniden BCD996T
APCO P25 is a digital voice signal and is commonly used like public safety departments such as police and fire. With an RTL-SDR and the open source Linux based OP25 decoder these signals can be...
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Using Aisdecoder to decode both AIS channels simultaneously
Recently SV3EXP wrote in to let us know that he has been documenting his experiences with trying to get aisdecoder to decode both AIS channels simultaneously. AIS stands for Automatic Identification...
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Receiving Inmarsat L-Band AERO with a DVB-T Antenna, Amplifier and Airspy Mini
To show that a specialized antenna is not required to receive L-band Inmarsat AERO satellite signals, YouTube user SkyWatcher has uploaded a video showing how he was able to receive these signals with...
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Building a Tuning Knob for SDR#
If you love using SDR’s on the PC but miss the old feeling of tuning the frequency with a knob then 19max63 has a solution for you. On his blog he’s posted about how he built his own tuning knob by...
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QSpectrumAnalyzer Updated to Version 1.4.0
QSpectrumAnalyzer is a Linux based opensource GUI front end for rtl_power or rtl_power_fftw and can be used with an RTL-SDR to scan for signal activity on wide swaths of the frequency spectrum....
View ArticleLeif SM5BSZ’s Testing of the SDRplay
Over on YouTube Leif (SM5BSZ) has uploaded two videos showing some of his tests with the SDRplay. Leif is fairly well known within the SDR community for writing the program Linrad and for doing various...
View ArticleDemonstrating the IF Processor and Notch Filter Plugin in SDR#
Over on YouTube user FMDX HUN (Luc1f3rk0) has uploaded a video showing how useful the SDR# IF Processor and Notch Filter Plugin can be when attempting to DX FM broadcast stations. He shows that it can...
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