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Tracking Wild Bats with SDRs – Featured in Science Magazine
Recently research from Tel-Aviv University by Sivan Toledo et al. involving the use of USRP SDRs to track wild bats was published in Science. The Journal Science (aka Science Magazine) is one of the...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: 2020 SDR Guide Ep 2 – Using Free Online SDRs
Over on his YouTube channel Frugal Radio has released the second episode in his 2020 SDR Guide series. In this video, Frugal Radio shows how to connect to remote SDRs such as KiwiSDR OpenWebRX, WebSDR,...
View ArticleTech Minds: Testing Antennas with the VNA N1201SA / PS100
Over on his channel Tech Minds has uploaded a new video where he tests the N1201SA / PS100 vector impedance analyzer. This is a US$160 antenna analyzer from China that allows you to measure the VSWR of...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Decoding Digital Data via Audacity, Mulitmon-ng and MiniModem
SignalsEverywhere is back this week and in her latest video Sarah talks about using a combination of Audacity, Minimodem and Multimon-ng to decode digital data that could be obtained from an SDR or...
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Using CubicSDR, rtl_433, MQTT and Telegraf to Stream Live Data to InfluxDB
Nimrod makes his own sourdough and wanted a way to track the temperature and humidity of the bread making environment. To do this he's set up a system involving rtl_433 on a Raspberry Pi which live...
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RadioSlate: A Tablet with Built in LimeSDR or HackRF
A new project called "RadioSlate" has recently been announced by Yian IT, a Chinese IoT company. RadioSlate will be an SDR-enabled tablet designed to be used with a HackRF or LimeSDR software defined...
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The NEWSDR 2020 Conference will be held Online on 12 August
The 10th New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR 2020) will be held online this year due to the ongoing pandemic. It is due to be held on 12 August 2020, 9:00 AM (US Eastern) – 5:00 PM...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Using an Airspy and RTL-SDR To Scan the UHF Military Airband in...
In Frugal Radio's latest video he explores how you can use an Airspy or RTL-SDR dongle to scan the entire military UHF airband spectrum in a few seconds via SDR#. Frugal Radio notes that there are...
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Alpha Version of SDR++ Released
SDR++ is an open source general purpose cross platform SDR program that Alexandre Rouma (@WhatsTheGeekYT) has been working on for the past few months. Recently he released his first Windows Alpha...
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Australian Teenager Exposes COVID-19 Patient Data via POCSAG Pager Network
A 15 year old Australian teenager has been accused of leaking sensitive COVID-19 patient data such as the phone numbers and addresses of people in quarantine, and conversations between health officials...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: SDRTrunk P25 Police Scanner Tutorial with two RTL-SDRs
Over on YouTube Sarah from SignalsEverywhere has uploaded a new tutorial video showing how to use two RTL-SDR dongles with the free SDRTrunk software to create a P25 Police scanner. In the video she...
View ArticleTechMinds: Decoding HF ACARS HFDL with an SDRplay RSPdx
In his latest YouTube video Tech Minds shows how to decode HF ACARS (HFDL) with an SDRplay RSPdx. Tech Minds initially explains what HFDL is, and how it is typically received via special aviation...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 3 – Beginner Budget SDR Shootout
In this episode Frugal Radio explores the differences between three RTL-SDR dongles. In the video he compares a generic RTL-SDR, a Nooelec SMART and one of our RTL-SDR Blog V3 units. Initially the...
View ArticleStandalone Windows FengYun-3 & MetOp HRPT Weather Satellite Decoder
Back in June we posted about Alan (@aang254)'s work on porting the GNU Radio gr-hrpt decoder over to GNU Radio 3.8. More recently Alan wrote in and wanted to share the news that he has recently...
View ArticleTechMinds: Building a 3D Printed 2.4 GHz Dual Feed Helix for QO-100
The Bullseye LNB that we have in our store is great for receiving the QO-100 amateur geostationary radio satellite which is available in some parts of the world. However it cannot be used to transmit...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 4 – Antenna Basics for SDR Beginners
In this episode of Frugal Radio's series of SDR beginners guide videos he discusses some antenna basics. He shows the most common types of antennas, provides several tips to help improve reception, and...
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SignalID: Shazam Style Automatic Signal Identification for Android
SignalID is a new Android app available on the Google Play store which offers Shazam-like radio signal identification. Just like Shazam does for music, you simply tune to an unknown signal with your...
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The Silphase R1 SDR Receiver
Thanks to Thomas' SWLing Blog for bringing to attention the Silphase R1 SDR receiver. This is an upcoming high performance HF SDR receiver being manufactured in the EU by a Polish company called...
View ArticleRSGB Talk: How To Check and Report VDSL RFI with an SDR in the UK
Back in April we posted a video from Tech Minds where he showed us how to use special software combined with an SDRplay RSPdx to detect and report VDSL interference on the HF bands. VDSL or Very High...
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Analyzing Lightning Discharges with an RTL-SDR and the Sage Network
Sage is a project working on creating geographically distributed sensor systems including cameras, microphones, weather and air quality stations in order to benefit the work of scientists. Recently on...
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