SuperSDR: A KiwiSDR + CAT Client for Ham Radio
Thank you to Marco (IS0KYB) for informing us about the release of his new software called "SuperSDR". SuperSDR allows you to easily synchronize frequency tuning with a remote KiwiSDR via a CAT...
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Evil Crow RF: An Open Source CC1101 Based Device for Pentesting
The CC1101 is a popular RF silicon chip as it can handle many common digital modulation modes such as OOK/ASK, FSK, GFSK, and MSK within it's hardware. It is not a software defined radio, but rather a...
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Guglielmo: RTL-SDR FM + DAB Tuner Software for Linux
Thank you to Marco for submitting news about the release of his Linux based RTL-SDR FM and DAB tuner software package named Guglielmo. The code is based on the Qt-dab and sdr-j-fm packages, with some...
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RTL433 Plugin for SDR# Now Available
Recently Marc has released his RTL433 plugin for SDR# over on GitHub and his Wixsite. RTL433 is a commonly used RTL-SDR command line program that provides decoders for a wide range of 433.92 MHz, 868...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Decoding ACARS on VHF with your SDR Radio
Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded episode five in his YouTube series on Aviation monitoring. This episode covers VHF ACARS decoding with an RTL-SDR. ACARS is an acronym for Aircraft...
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MagicSDR: A new Android and iOS RTL_TCP Client
Unlike Android devices, Apple iOS devices can't run RTL-SDRs directly through their USB ports. However, they can still connect to another networked device such as a PC or Raspberry Pi running an...
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Decoding NRSC5 HD Radio with GNU Radio and a HackRF
Thank you to "LikWidChz" for submitting his tutorial on receiving and decoding multiple NRSC5 (HD Radio) channels with the help of GNU Radio, a HackRF and the NRSC5 decoder. He writes: I wanted a way...
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Receiving Unintentionally Radiated Signals from the Computer System Bus with...
Back in 2018 we first posted about "System Bus Radio" which is code and a web based app that allows you to transmit RF directly from your computer without any transmitting hardware. It works on the...
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Raspberry-NOAA V2: Raspberry Pi Automated NOAA and Meteor Weather Satellite...
Raspberry-NOAA is open source code and a set of scripts that allows you to set up a Raspberry Pi as an automated NOAA and Meteor weather satellite station with an SDR like an RTL-SDR. The software...
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CENOS Launches Affordable And Easy-to-use Simulation Software For Antenna Design
Over the past few months we have posted a few times about the beta of CENOS, a new antenna modelling and simulation design package. Recently CENOS has exited it's beta testing phase, and they have put...
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Migou: A Low-Power Hybrid Radio Platform
Thank you to Ramiro Utrilla Gutiérrez a PhD Candidate researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for writing in and sharing his research groups work on a low power SDR radio platform called...
View ArticleCloning A Garage Key with RTL-SDR, Universal Radio Hacker and an Arduino
Over on YouTube Adam Łoboda has uploaded a video showing the full steps that he's taken to reverse engineer and clone a wireless garage door key using an RTL-SDR and Arduino. He starts by using the...
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yellowShoes: A Browser Based HD Radio / NRSC-5 User Interface
Thank you to Evuraan for writing in and sharing his new browser based HD Radio / NRSC-5 interface for the nrsc5 decoder which he has called yellowShoes. HD Radio is a digital broadcast protocol...
View ArticleExploring 433 MHz Devices in the Neighborhood with RTL-SDR and rtl_433
Over on his YouTube channel CWNE88 has posted how he has been using and RTL-SDR with the rtl_433 software to explore the data coming in from various 433 MHz ISM band devices in his neighborhood. In the...
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Decoding Multiple Pager Transmissions Simultaneously with GNU Radio
A few weeks ago we posted about "LikWidChz"'s work on using GNU Radio to channelize multiple NRSC-5 HD-Radio transmissions for simultaneous decoding with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR. He has now also...
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An Expansion Board with SMA Output for the Raspberry Pi and RPiTX
Thank you to Ihar Yatsevich for writing in and sharing his open source project called "rpitx-coax-pcb" which is an expansion board for the Raspberry Pi that converts the GPIO pin used by RPiTX into a...
View ArticleBuilding an Automated NOAA and Meteor Weather Satellite Image Collector with...
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he has built an automated weather satellite image collector for the NOAA APT and Meteor M2 LRPT satellites. The video shows a...
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Freenode ##rtlsdr IRC Channel Moving to Libera
The ##rtlsdr IRC Freenode chat channel will be moving to irc.libera.chat. However ##rtlsdr admins note that the Freenode channel will remain open for now. This move is in wake of the recent takeover...
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Avoiding Fake SDRplay RSP Devices
We've posted about various fake clones of various brands of SDRs a few times on this blog, and recently this week SDRplay reiterated their warning noting that the fake SDRplay clones may not work with...
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Avoiding Fake RTL-SDR Blog V3 Clones + 2021 Supply Chain Updates
As a follow on to the previous post on fake SDRplay units, we also wanted to provide some guidance on fake RTL-SDR Blog V3 clones which are on the market. We are starting to receive an increase in...
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