Receiving GOES Weather Satellite Images with a Small Grid Antenna and an...
GOES is an L-band geosynchronous weather satellite service that can be received typically with a satellite dish. It produces very nice full disk images of the earth. In the past we’ve posted about...
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WaveConverter: An Open Source RF Reverse Engineering Tool
During the Schmoocon 2017 conference presenter Paul Clark introduced a new open source Linux tool called WaveConverter which he’s been working on for reverse engineering RF signals. Paul writes:...
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Lowering the Noise Floor on HF with High Quality Coax
Bonito is a company that sells various products such as their own small active antennas. Some examples are the Bono-Whip (20kHz – 300 MHz), GigaActiv (9kHz – 3 GHz) and the MegaLoop (9kHz – 200 MHz)....
View ArticleComparing the RSP1 and RSP2 on MF Non-Directional Beacon Reception
Over on our new YouTube channel we’ve uploaded a video comparing the SDRplay RSP1 and RSP2 on reception of Non-Directional Beacons at around 350 kHz. Both radios had their gains adjusted for the best...
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LimeSDR First Batch Shipping Now
The LimeSDR is a RX/TX capable SDR with a 100 kHz – 3.8 GHz frequency range, 12-bit ADC and 61.44 MHz bandwidth. Back in June 2016 they surpassed their $500k goal, raising over $800k on the...
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Radio For Everyone New Posts: Line of Sight, Why USB Cable Quality Matters,...
Over on his radioforeveryone.com blog, author Akos has uploaded three new posts. The first post briefly explains visually what is meant by line of sight when it comes to radio signals. Essentially at...
View ArticleShowing the HF Interference Problem from Ethernet over Powerline Devices
Over on our YouTube channel we’ve uploaded a new video that shows how bad the interference from Ethernet over Power devices can be. Ethernet over Power, Powerline Networking, Powerline Communications...
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Hacking a Danfoss Wireless Thermostat with an RTL-SDR
Over on his blog Andy writes how he wanted a smart way to control his central heating system with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino microcontroller. He discovered that if he could reverse engineer his...
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Running a 1G Mobile Phone Network with a HackRF
First generation (1G) mobile phone technology was brought out in the 80’s and was an unsecured analogue system. These days 1G technology is completely phased out in favor of digital standards like 2G...
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Radio For Everyone New Posts: Building an ADS-B Station, Easy Homemade...
Akos the author of the radioforeveryone.com blog has recently added two new articles to his blog. The first post is a comprehensive guide to setting up your own ADS-B station. The guide focuses on...
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A Homemade PCB Log-Periodic Antenna
Ham radio enthusiast and RF designer Marco Cardelli (IZ5IOW) recently wrote in and wanted to share his PCB log periodic antenna design which he has been using together with RTL-SDR dongles. Log...
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CNxROOT Two Posts: How to Build an RTL-SDR Server with OpenWRT, Creating a...
Recently security researcher cnxroot wrote in to let us know about two of his posts that may be of interest to readers. The posts are written in Chinese, so please use Google Translate to read them in...
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rtlmic: Wireless Microphone Receiver for RTL-SDR
Over on GitHub a new program called rtlmic has recently been uploaded. The program descriptions reads: rtlmic is a multichannel FM microphone receiver/demodulator for RTL-SDR cards. It outputs...
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Setting up Propagation Triggered Spectrum Recording
Over on the SDRplay blog and forums OH2BUA has been sharing how he has set up ‘propagation triggered recording’ by continuously monitoring JT65/JT9 signals with his SDRplay. The idea is that you leave...
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An RTL-SDR ExtIO with Decimation and Tuner Bandwidth Controls
RTL-SDR experimenter Hayati Ayguen (hayguen on GitHub) has released a version of rtl_tcp and an ExtIO module that allows access to normally hidden tuner settings. The ExtIO allows you to manually set...
View ArticleHak5 at Shmoocon 2017: Shock Collar Radio Roulette, GNU Radio, Sniffing IR...
Over on YouTube the popular Hak5 channel has uploaded a video with several SDR related topics mentioned during Shmoocon 2017 conference. One fun event talked about in the video was the Shmoocon...
View ArticleA Tutorial on Receiving WSPR with an RTL-SDR V3
Over on YouTube user Veryokay has uploaded a video that shows how he uses the HF direct sampling mode on one of our V3 RTL-SDR’s to receive WSPR signals. WSPR (pronounced “Whisper”) is short for Weak...
View ArticleCamp++ YouTube Talk: GSM Signal Sniffing for Everyone with GR-GSM and Multi-RTL
Over on YouTube the channel Budapest Hackerspace has recently uploaded a talk by Piotr Krysik which was given during the August 2016 Camp++ 0x7e0 information security conference. The talk is titled:...
View ArticleA Multichannel FM Demodulator
A few days ago programmer Phil V wrote in and wanted to let us know about his tsl-sdr MultiFM software for the RTL-SDR. This is a Python based command line program which is somewhat similar to rtl_fm,...
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Radioforeveryone New Posts: PiAware Step-By-Step Guide and a Guide to Feeding...
Akos from the radioforeveryone.com blog has recently uploaded some new posts. The first post is a tutorial on setting up a PiAware server with an RTL-SDR. PiAware is the official ADS-B feeder software...
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