SignalsEverywhere: Harold’s Mobile SDR Vehicle Load Out for Amateur Radio
This week on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel Harold shows us the mobile SDR and ham radio setup that he's installed on his car. On the roof of his car he's installed several antennas for various...
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Cleanly Embedding an RTL-SDR in an FT-991A With No Extra Cables
GPIO Pins Used on the RTL-SDR Blog V3 Thank you to Rodrigo Freire (PY2RAF) for submitting his project that has cleanly turned a standard Yaesu FT-991A ham radio into an RTL-SDR based software defined...
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Transmitting WSPR on QO-100 with a moRFeus and less than 4 mW Power
Thank you to Zoltan for submitting a short post about using a moRFeus to uplink WSPR to the Es'Hail-2 (QO-100) geostationary satellite with amateur radio repeater. moRFeus is a versatile US$99 signal...
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Testing for Spurious Signals on the Airspy HF+ Discovery
Thank you to Nils Schiffhauer (DK8OK) for submitting an article documenting his tests on the Airspy HF+ Discovery (pdf mirror). Spurred on by discussions on the SDR-Console mailing list, Nils went...
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RTL-SDR Blog V3 X-Rayed
Over on Reddit user u/isysopi201 has put up a fun post showing what an RTL-SDR Blog V3 looks like under an X-Ray machine. With the full resolution images, it is possible to see the PCB traces in...
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KerberosSDR Batch 2 Ships Soon! Pricing will Rise on Monday
KerberosSDR Batch 2 will begin shipping very soon! Thank you to all who have supported this project so far. If you didn't already know KerberosSDR is our experimental 4x Coherent RTL-SDR product made...
View ArticleHacking Iridium Satellites With Iridium Toolkit
Over on YouTube TechMinds has uploaded a video showing how to use the Iridium Toolkit software to receive data and audio from Iridium satellites with an Airspy. Iridium is a global satellite service...
View ArticleAndreas Spiess Explains Software Defined Radio in YouTube Video
Over on YouTube Andreas Spiess has uploaded a video titled "How does Software Defined Radio (SDR) work under the Hood?". The video is an entertaining introduction to how software defined radio works...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF SDR to Sniff RF Emissions from a Cryptocurrency Hardware...
At last years Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) Conference, leveldown security presented their findings on multiple security vulnerabilities present in cryptocurrency hardware wallets....
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Hermes Lite 2 HF Amateur Radio SDR Group Buy Now Active
The Hermes Lite 2 (HL2) amateur radio direct sampling HF SDR transceiver board is now active for a group buy over on Makerfabs. The price is $225.70, and there need to be 25 orders before the group buy...
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RadarBox Optimized ADS-B Antenna + RTL-SDR Bundle 15% Off Sale
Over in our store we're currently selling a RadarBox branded bundle that includes an ADS-B optimized antenna with 10 meters of coax, and an ADS-B optimized RTL-SDR dongle. RadarBox24 is an ADS-B...
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Significantly Improving RTL_TCP’s Performance with Ring Buffers
Thank you to an anonymous contributor for bringing to attention a two part blog post by Stephen Blinick. Stephen's post details how the performance of rtl_tcp can be significantly improved by modifying...
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A Guide to Compiling Updated NanoVNA Firmware
Thank you to Ohan Smit (ZS1SCI) for submitting his guide that shows us how to compile the latest NanoVNA firmware from the source code. The NanoVNA is an open source VNA project by @edy555 and ttrftech...
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A Wall Mounted SatNOGS Ground Station Monitor
If you weren't already aware, SatNOGS is an open source project that aims to make it easy for volunteers to build and run RF ground stations (typically based on RTL-SDR hardware) that automatically...
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Testing a PCB Patch Antenna and Radiosonde QFH Antenna for Inmarsat and...
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has been testing some antennas for Inmarsat and Iridium L-Band satellite reception. Inmarsat is a satellite service that runs on geostationary satellites, and one...
View ArticleTesting Version Two of the NooElec Balun One Nine
Over on YouTube two reviewers have just uploaded videos showing off version two of the NooElec Balun One Nine. Version one of the Balun One Nine is a balun transformer that can be used with long wire...
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SDRSharp Community Plugin Package Now Available
The SDR# developer in conjunction with Rodrigo Pérez have recently endorsed and released a "community plugin package" over on the SDR# downloads page. This consists of a SDR# installer that...
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Reviews of the Low Cost MLA-30 Wide Band HF Magnetic Loop Antenna
Recently Chinese manufacturers have begun producing a low cost wide band (100 kHz - 30 MHz) magnetic loop HF antenna known as the MLA-30. The loop can be found on eBay for under US$45 with free...
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NanoVNASaver Software Walkthrough + NanoVNA Firmware Updates Bring 1.5 GHz...
The NanoVNA is an open source VNA project by @edy555 and ttrftech that has recently become extremely affordable at less than US$50 for a fully assembled unit thanks to Chinese manufacturing (or a...
View ArticleYouTube Video: Reverse Engineering with SDR
Over on YouTube Black Hills Information Security (aka Paul Clark) has uploaded a one hour long presentation that shows how to use a software defined radio to reverse engineer digital signals using GNU...
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