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Hackaday Article about the Slow Death of NOAA-15
If you've been following our blog, or have your own RTL-SDR based weather satellite station, then you'll know that the NOAA-15 APT satellite has been experiencing issues lately. There appear to be...
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WebWSPR: A Browser Based WSPR Decoder and Visualization Tool
A few days ago we posted about [dj0abr / Radio Electronics'] WebSDR software for QO-100. Having looked through his GitHub we've seen that he also has an a similar browser based server tool called...
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Reviews of the NanoVNA: An Ultra Low Cost $50 Vector Network Analyzer
A vector network analyzer (VNA) is an instrument that can be used to measure antenna or coax parameters such as SWR, impedance and loss. It can also be used to characterize and tune filters. It is a...
View ArticleUsing an Airspy HF+ Discovery to Hunt for HF Beacons
Over on YouTube Tech Minds has posted a video of him using an Airspy HF+ Discovery to hunt for signals like non-direction beacons (NDB's) and other morse code CW beacons. The Airspy HF+ Discovery is a...
View ArticleSDRplay RSPDuo Diversity: Combing a Magnetic Loop and Miniwhip Antenna
The SDRplay team have posted some more videos that demonstrate the SDRplay Duo's diversity function. The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software defined radio capable of tuning between 1 kHz - 2...
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A Remote ADS-B, ACARS, VDL2 and Air Traffic Control Voice Monitoring Station...
Over on Reddit u/tsimola has posted about his remote ADS-B station that is accessed via an LTE connection. When an opportunity came up to install a remote ADS-B station on a tall building with...
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METEOR M Demodulator SDR# Plugin and LRPT-Decoder Updated
Thanks to Happysat for providing info on updates to these programs again. Meteor Demodulator V2.2 is a plugin for SDR# that connects to the M2 LRPT Decoder software. Together with an RTL-SDR and 137...
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SigDigger: A Graphical Digital Signal Analyzer for Linux
Recently a new open source Linux based SDR application called SigDigger was released by programmer BatchDrake (Gonzalo J. Carracedo). It is based on his own DSP libraries called Sigutils and Suscan...
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Using a Drone and HackRF to Inject URLs, Phish For Passwords on Internet...
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. At this years Defcon conference security researcher Pedro Cabrera held a talk...
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RTL-SDR.COM GOES 16/17 and GK-2A Weather Satellite Reception Comprehensive...
GOES 16/17 and GK-2A are geosynchronous weather satellites that transmit high resolution weather images and data. In particular they are far enough away from the earth to be able to take beautiful...
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AIS Share App Updated and Magazine Article
Thank you to Christian, programmer of the AIS Share Android App for letting us know about some updates to his AIS Share Android application. AIS Share is a €2 app for Android that allows you to turn an...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Driving around with KerberosSDR and Locating a P25...
On this weeks episode of SignalsEverywhere, host Corrosive tests out our KerberosSDR coherent RTL-SDR unit for radio direction finding. If you didn't already know KerberosSDR is our experimental 4x...
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Uplinking to QO-100 with a LimeNET Micro and LimeRFE
The LimeNet Micro is a is a $329 board that combines a Raspberry Pi 3 (compute module) together with a LimeSDR radio. The LimeRFE is an amplifier and filter board accessory designed to be used with...
View ArticlePEPYSCOPE: A Simple Panadapter for HF Radios using RTL-SDR Direct Sampling
Over on GitHub user mcogoni (Marco/IS0KYB) has recently released a new program called Pepyscope. Pepyscope is a simple and fast panadapter application that is designed to be used with direct sampling...
View ArticlePodcasts: GNU Radio with Ben Hilburn + New Signals and Bits Episodes
The Scanner School Podcast has recently released a new episode featuring an interview with Ben Hilburn, President of the GNU Radio project. If you want to understand what GNU Radio is, and what role it...
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Mike Tests out L-Band STD-C and AERO with a Low Cost Modified GPS Antenna
SDR-Kits.net have begun selling low cost GPS antennas that are modified to receive the Inmarsat satellite frequencies between 1535 MHz to 1550 MHz. They also have a version for Iridium satellites that...
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Automatically Photographing Passing Aircraft with an RTL-SDR, Pi 3, and IoT...
Arun Venkataswamy has recently completed a write up about his system which automatically captures images of passing aircraft. It works by using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR to listen to ADS-B broadcasts...
View ArticleAirspy HF+ Discovery: Collection of Tests and Reviews
The Airspy HF+ Discovery is a new US$169 software defined radio that recently began shipping. On HF it can tune from 0.5 kHz to 31 MHz, and on VHF from 60 to 260 MHz. It is advertised as having...
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Decoding PAL Video from a Nintendo with An Airspy SDR Part 2
Oona combines composite output for color images. Last week we posted about Oona Räisänen's ([Windytan] and @windyoona) project to capture live video from her 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)...
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Calculating Coax Length by using a NanoVNA as a Time-Domain Reflectometer
Earlier in the month we posted about the NanoVNA, an open source VNA project by @edy555 and ttrftech that has recently become extremely affordable at US$50 for a fully assembled unit thanks to Chinese...
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