FliteGrid: A Crowdsourced Drone Detection Network That Pays Feeders US$50 A...
Thank you, Chris, for writing in and sharing news about the recent launch of FliteGrid's hex claiming scheme. FlightGrid is a crowdsourced drone-tracking network that will pay feeders in an eligible...
View ArticleOnAir: A Digital TV and DAB Decoder for SDRs
Thank you to Kristijonas for writing in and sharing with us his project, OnAir. OnAir is an easy-to-use digital TV decoder for DVB-T2, DVB-T, ATSC 1.0, ATSC 3.0, ISDB-T, and a digital audio decoder for...
View ArticleESP32-SDR: Turbo Mode Throughput Improvement + Real I/Q Output
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi for writing in and sharing with us an article he's written explaining how he managed to speed up the ESP32-SDR's sampling time by 50x. The ESP32 has recently been discovered...
View Articleesp32-sdr-trx: Use an ESP32-S3 as a Receiver for SDR++ and as an FM/SSB Voice...
Thank you to Jochen (DA2JH) for writing in and sharing with us his project, esp32-sdr-trx, a software-defined transceiver built from a single ESP32-S3 dev board and two USB cables. esp32-sdr-trx uses...
View ArticleESPsoup: Turn an ESP32-C5 into a 2.4 & 5 GHz Pocket Scanner with a Connected...
Thank you to Peter Holzhauser for writing in and sharing with us his latest open-source project, 'ESPsoup'. Peter has written in previously to share his Android app, V2X2MAP, which detects and plots...
View ArticleChronAlert: Live Dashboard for Radio, Weather, Alerts with RTL-SDR...
Thank you to Danny from brokensignal.tv, who wrote in and shared the release of his new project, 'ChronAlert'. Danny describes ChronAlert as "a free PC-based live dashboard for radio, weather, alerts,...
View ArticleHamRadioWeb FT8 WSJTx JTDX Remote Control Android App
Thank you to Patricio (LU5AKF) for sharing with us the release of HamRadioWeb.com's new FT8 WSJTx JTDX remote control Android app. Previously, we posted about HamRadioWeb's browser-based remote FT8 and...
View ArticleOFFgrid-SDR: A Fully Offline RTL-SDR Receiver Program in a Single Index.html...
Thank you to Richard Didd for submitting his new software, 'OFFgrid-SDR', a fully offline RTL-SDR receiver program in an installer-free, single index.html file. The OFFgrid-SDR program runs in any...
View ArticleFernSDR: An Open-Source WebSDR Server
Thank you to 'magicint1337' for writing in and sharing with us a new program he's created called FernSDR. The author writes that FernSDR is an open-source WebSDR server rebuilt from scratch, based on...
View Articlesdrtop: A Terminal-Based SDR Bench Tool
Thank you to Viktor László (MusiThang on GitHub), for writing in and sharing with us his new project called sdrtop. sdrtop is a terminal-based SDR tool that is compatible with the HackRF and RTL-SDR....
View ArticleVarious Projects Independently Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32...
Back in 2025, we posted about ESPARGOS, a phased array of many patch antennas, each connected to an ESP32 WiFi microcontroller. ESPARGOS could be used to determine the direction of arrival for WiFi...
View ArticleUsing an Affordable Optical Encoder as an SDR Tuning Wheel
Thank you to Gerrit (PA3BYA) for writing in and sharing a hardware project he completed that combines an affordable optical encoder and a microcontroller with custom firmware to create a...
View ArticleFoxSDR Updates: Node Canvas, Single Map Display, Linux+Android Builds,...
Thank you to wonderingStars for writing in and sharing updates to his FoxSDR software program. FoxSDR is a new AI-coded software that supports all common protocols and SDRs. The first update that...
View ArticleNNJ-SDR++: Improved Firmware and Software for Kintex-7 AD9361 B210 Clones
USRP B210 Chinese clones can now be commonly found on marketplace sites for less than USD$300. This is a bargain, considering that an original USRP B210 (board only) costs US$2,387. The disadvantage...
View ArticleRF-Traffic-Monitor: Track Aircraft, Ships, Drones and Radiosondes in One Program
Thank you to Stefanos (Steeod) for sharing a new program he created, "RF-traffic-monitor." Stefanos created this program because he initially wanted to install adsb.im (an ADS-B feeder image that also...
View ArticleEcho Pro: KiwiSDR, OpenWebRX, WebSDR and FM-DX iOS Browser App now with Live...
Back in April we posted about the release of Echo, a free iOS app designed for browsing global web-based KiwiSDR, OpenWebRX, WebSDR, and FM-DX software-defined radios. Mark, the developer of Echo, has...
View ArticleRTL-SDR Pager: Android App for Receiving and Decoding POCSAG and FLEX Pager...
Thank you to Christian from ebcTech.eu for writing in and sharing with us the release of his new Android app called "RTL-SDR Pager" (Google Play Store link). The app is designed to work with an RTL-SDR...
View ArticleKhanfarRX: Mayhem External App for the PortaPack H4M with Band Plan Tuning,...
Thank you to M Khanfar for writing in and sharing his new app for the HackRF PortaPack H4M, KhanfarRX. The program aims to make listening to HF on the PortaPack a much better experience. Khanfar...
View ArticleTurning a Smartphone’s Speaker Amplifier into a Silent Intentional VHF Morse...
Thank you to Efe Işık (TA1EEI) for writing in and sharing with us his open-source project showing how to turn a modern Android smartphone’s internal Class-D speaker amplifier into a silent, intentional...
View ArticleElektro-L3 Now Drifting West to 14.5°W: L-Band xRIT Could Return to Western...
Back in May, we posted about how Russia's Elektro-L3 geostationary weather satellite was expected to move from 76°E to 14.5°W, which would finally bring an unencrypted L-band LRIT/HRIT downlink over...
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