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A Discone Antenna made from 3D Printed Parts and Aluminum Rods
Over on his blog author ByTechLab has posted about his 'mostly 3D printed' discone antenna. A discone is a type of wideband antenna, so it is commonly used with SDRs like the RTL-SDR that have huge...
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Forwarding Pager Messages Received with an RTL-SDR to Email
Over on YouTube Jack Riley has created a video that documents his system which uses an RTL-SDR to receive POCSAG pager messages and forward messages sent to specific pager addresses to an email...
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Creating a Linear Transponder with an RTL-SDR, HackRF and Raspberry Pi
A linear transponder is essentially a repeater that works on a range of frequencies instead of a fixed frequency. For example, a normal repeater may receive at 145 MHz, and repeat the signal at 435...
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Video Demonstrating C-Band AERO Aircraft Tracking
AERO is essentially the satellite based version of aircraft ACARS. AERO's L-band signals contains short ground to air messages with things like weather reports and flight plans. The C-band signals are...
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YouTube Talk: Investigating RF Controls with RTL-SDR
During the SANS Pen Test HackFest which was held back in 2017, speaker Katie Knowles who is a security consultant at MWR Infosecurity did a very informative talk on how an RTL-SDR can be used to...
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QuestaSDR Android App now with Remote Network Streaming: RTL-SDR, Airspy,...
Back in April we posted about QuestaSDR, which had just released the Android version of its SDR software. Recently QuestaSDR programmer 'hOne' wrote in and noted that a new update has enabled remote...
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Decapping the AD9361 SDR Transceiver Chip: Hi-Res Images and Cost Analysis
The AD9361 is a highly versatile full transceiver SDR chip released by Analog Devices back in 2013. With a frequency range from 70 MHz - 6 GHz, 56 MHz bandwidth and 12-bit ADC, it is most commonly...
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Tzumi MagicTV WiFi TV Tuner Device contains an RTL-SDR, OpenWRT board and...
The Tzumi MagicTV is a device that allows users in the USA to watch TV on an Android phone via free over the air digital ATSC signals. It receives and decodes TV on the device, then streams decoded TV...
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CalicoCAT: New Serial CAT Control Plugin for SDR#
CalicoCAT: CAT Control Plugin for SDR# Thanks to Stephen 'Tag' Loomis (N0TTL) for submitting news about his new plugin called 'CalicoCAT' which is a serial CAT control plugin for SDR#. The plugin...
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Chasing Cubesats on a $25 Budget with an RTL-SDR and Homemade Antenna
Cubesats are small shoebox sized satellites that are usually designed by universities or amateur radio organizations for basic space experiments or amateur radio communications. Typically they have an...
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A Lightweight Meteor M2 Demodulator
Over on GitHub dbdexter-dev has released a new lightweight and open source Meteor M2 demodulator. Meteor M2 is a Russian weather satellite that transmits images down in the digital LRPT format. This...
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Using RTL_433 to Decode SimpliSafe Home Security Systems
SimpliSafe is an American DIY home security system company that claims over 2 million customers. Their system relies on 433/315 MHz ISM band wireless radio communications between its various sensors,...
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Tracking Planes with RTL-SDR, Apache Kafka, KSQL, Kibana and a Raspberry Pi
Inspired by a low flying aircraft that kept waking his cat in the morning, Simon Aubury decided to use an RTL-SDR and ADS-B tracking software dump1090 to determine which plane was the culprit. This is...
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Decoding 12 AERO Channels Simultaneously with an Airspy, Outernet Patch...
In a post uploaded last month we noted that Outernet was selling off some of their old L-Band satellite antennas cheaply. Nils Schiffhauser (DK8OK) decided to take advantage of the sale and bought one....
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An Update on the PantronX Titus II SDR
The PantronX Titus II is a yet-to-be-released portable Android tablet based SDR that we've been following since 2016. The device will feature a 100 kHz - 2 GHz tuning range, and software that focuses...
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Using the RTL-SDR as a tool to Measure Crystals
Over on YouTube OM0ET has shown how he uses his RTL-SDR for measuring crystals. While working on his home made HF 6-band SSB transceiver, OM0ET needed a way to measure the frequency of some 8 MHz...
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Using an RTL-SDR and moRFeus as a Tracking Generator to Measure Filters And...
The Outernet moRFeus As Outernet is currently having a sale and selling their their moRFeus product at only US $99 (see next post for details - or simply use coupon code "rtlsdrblog" on their checkout...
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moRFeus Half Price Sale: $99 Signal Generator and Frequency Mixer
moRFeus is a low cost wideband signal generator and frequency mixer. It can be used to generate a tone anywhere from 85 MHz to 5400 MHz, and can also be used as a frequency mixer, allowing you to...
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Running Osmo-FL2K on VMWare Workstation Pro
Thank you to Sajjad Golchin Poor for writing in and letting us know about his success with getting Osmo-FL2K to run in WMWare Workstation Pro. Osmo-FL2K is a driver that enables very cheap VGA dongles...
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Controlling moRFeus over a Network Connection
Thank to LamaBleu for submitting news about his new software for the moRFeus signal generator and frequency mixer called moRFeus_listener. The software allows you to remotely control a moRFeus device...
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