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Evaluating LoRaWAN Security with an RTL-SDR
Over on their blog Trend Micro have uploaded a post describing how they evaluated the security of LoRaWAN communications using an RTL-SDR. LoRaWAN is a wireless communications technology that allows...
View ArticleTechMinds: Testing a DC-160 MHz Panadapter Switch
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a video where he tests out a cheap US$90 automatic antenna switch with DC-160 MHz range that he purchased from Chinese goods retailer Banggood. An...
View ArticleEngineer and Beauty Queen Xyla Foxlin sends an RTL-SDR and Miss America Crown...
Xyla Foxlin is a Mechatronics engineer, entrepreneur, and beauty queen who amongst many other titles is also a STEM YouTuber. In her latest YouTube video Xyla sends her Miss America crown that she...
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SDRSharp Guide by IZ1MLL Updated
Thank you to Paolo Romani IZ1MLL for letting us know that he has updated his popular SDRSharp users guide that we posted about previously last December. The guide is available on the Airspy downloads...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring Aviation Communications Part One
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently started a new YouTube series all about monitoring aviation communications. In his first video Rob gives an overview on what can be aviation signals can monitored and...
View ArticleAdding an RTL-SDR Antenna Port to a Pinetab Linux Tablet
The Pinetab is a US$99.99 open source Ubuntu Linux Tablet based on a low power Pine64 singe board computer. The Pinetab can optionally support an internal RTL-SDR, which is essentially just a standard...
View ArticleControlling a Wireless Ceiling Fan with an RTL-SDR and RPiTX on a Raspberry Pi
Over on YouTube River's Educational Channel has uploaded a new video showing how he uses a Raspberry Pi to control a ceiling fan via it's wireless control signal. Back in January we posted about...
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Receiving SpaceX Falcon 9 Telemetry with a HackRF and 1.2m Satellite Dish
Over on the Reddit /r/SpaceXLounge discussion board user /u/Xerbot has made an interesting post showing how u/derekcz was able to receive the telemetry signals from the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...
View ArticleReceiving Shortwave Radiograms with an RTL-SDR and MultiPSK
Shortwave Radiogram's are digital broadcasts of images, text and sometimes HTML files that are regularly broadcast on two shortwave radio stations, WRMI in Florida and WINB in Pennsylvania. The...
View ArticleGNU Radio Amateur Radio Meeting: A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio
Over on their YouTube channel GNU Radio have uploaded a recent talk by Aaron Rossetto titled "A Look at Project 25 (P25) Digital Radio". The talk explains the North American public safety P25 system in...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Monitoring VHF Airband Aviation Frequencies at the Airport
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded the next video in his airband monitoring series. In this video Rob explains various airband communications that can be received from the airport, and...
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CENOS Antenna Design and Simulation Software Looking for Testers
Back in March 2020 we posted about CENOS, a company creating a new antenna modelling and simulation design package. Back then they were offering applications to beta test the software for free. CENOS...
View ArticleReceiving Video Directly from a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket + Scott Manley Video
Last week we posted about how several users on Reddit & Twitter worked together to receive and decode text telemetry from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch using a HackRF, 1.2m dish with custom...
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GPU Accelerated RTL-SDR Radio Interferometer Code For Radio Astronomy
Evan Mayer (@millijanskys) has recently released some code called “effex” that allows you to use two RTL-SDR dongles as an interferometer for radio astronomy and other experiments. The hardware used is...
View ArticlePiccoloSDR: A Simple SDR From a Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a $4 microcontroller board. Recently radio amateur Luigi Cruz discovered that the ADC on the Pico could be used as a simple direct sampling software defined radio, with a...
View ArticleProject Horus 55: Live Video from a High Altitude Balloon
Project Horus 55 was a project that involved creating a high altitude balloon with payload that could broadcast live video down to ground station observers, as well as creating the ground station...
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Preorder Sale: Active L-Band 1525-1660 Inmarsat and Iridium Patch Back In...
We have just received stock of our new L-band active patch antenna design. The antenna is designed for receiving L-band satellites such as Inmarsat, Iridium, GPS and other satellites that transmit...
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SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite Successfully Launched and in Orbit
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting news about the successful launch and first reception of the SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite (which is only 5x5x5cm in size). The pre-launch press release...
View ArticleBuilding a GOES-16 Antenna out of Trash, Cardboard and Foil Tape
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he was able to modify and old DirectTV satellite dish found in the dumpster with cardboard and foil in order to receive...
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Scikit-RF: An Open Source RF Engineering Package in Python
Thank you to Alexander, the original author of scikit-rf (aka skrf) for writing in and sharing his project which he believes may be of interest to some readers. Scikit-rf is an open source,...
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