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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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iotSDR Crowdfunding: An SDR Devboard for Designing Custom IoT Protocols and...
A new SDR has recently launched on the CrowdSupply crowdfunding platform. This one is called "iotSDR" and is designed to be a software defined radio to help developers and enthusiasts design custom...
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Flipper Zero Crowdfunding: An Open Source RF Pen Testing Tool For Hackers
Flipper Zero isn't an SDR, but it is an interesting RF capable pentesting tool that is currently being crowdfunded, and we think it deserves a post. Based on a TI CC1101 transceiver chip, the Flipper...
View ArticleSetting up a GSM Basestation in minutes with a USRP and DragonOS
DragonOS is a ready to use Linux OS image that includes many SDR programs preinstalled and ready to use. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel that has multiple tutorial videos demonstrating...
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NyanSat: A Low Cost Open Source Satellite Ground Station
Thank you to John D for writing in and letting us know that Wired magazine has recently run an article about the "Nyansat" project. Nyansat aims to bring low cost open source satellite ground stations...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Setting up a Broadcastify Feed with SDRTrunk
In her last video Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel showed us how to set up SDRTrunk for reception of digital P25 Police and other services with two RTL-SDR dongles. On this weeks...
View ArticleTechMinds: Using Public Online SDRs without SDR Hardware
This weeks video on the TechMinds channel explores the various online web SDRs that are available to access for free. Accessing these online SDRs does not require any hardware apart from a PC and...
View ArticleDefcon 2020 Online Talks: Satellite Eavesdropping & Detecting Fake 4G Base...
DEFCON 2020 was held online this year in and the talks were released a few days ago on their website and on YouTube. If you weren't already aware Defcon is a major yearly conference all about...
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MySondy: Radiosonde Tracking Firmware for a TTGO ESP32 LORA Board
A radiosonde is a small sensor and radio package normally attached to a weather balloon. Meteorological agencies around the world typically launch two balloons a day from several locations to gather...
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Testing the Electrosense Up/Downconverter Expansion Board For 0 – 6 GHz
The Electrosense network is an open source project aiming to deploy radio spectrum sensors worldwide. The idea is to help analyze and understand radio spectrum usage across the globe. Each sensor...
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Sanchez: Create False Colour Images from GOES/Himawari/GK-2A Infrared
With an RTL-SDR, an appropriate satellite antenna and LNA it is possible to receive visible light images from geostationary satellites such as GOES/Himawari and GK-2A. However, in a 24 hour cycle there...
View ArticleTechMinds: OpenWebRX Feature Overview And Raspberry Pi Setup
Over on YouTube TechMinds has posted his latest video which shows an overview of the features available in OpenWebRX, and also how to set it up on a Raspberry Pi. OpenWebRX is software which allows you...
View ArticleDragonOS: Installing Crocodile Hunter For Detecting Fake 4G Cell Sites
A few days ago we posted about two SDR related DEFCON talks which were recently released. One of the talks was about detecting fake 4G base stations with a bladeRF SDR and a tool they created called...
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Eavesdropping on LTE Calls with a USRP Software Defined Radio
Ars Technica recently ran a story about how University researchers have been able to eavesdrop on LTE mobile phone calls using a USRP B210 software defined radio which runs the Airscope software. The...
View ArticleBSides Talk: It’s 2020, so why am I still able to read your pager traffic?
At the BSides OK 2020 virtual conference Cameron Mac Millan recently presented a talk titled "It’s 2020, so why am I still able to read your pager traffic?". On this blog we have posted numerous times...
View ArticleA Handheld SciFi Scanner Box with RTL-SDR and Thermal Camera
Over on his YouTube channel "saveitforparts" has been working on creating a handheld scanner/sensor box on a budget. This is a simple and fun build which is attempting to create something like a real...
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KerberosSDR: Tracking a Weather Balloon Radiosonde with Radio Direction Finding
The KerberosSDR is our 4-channel phase coherent capable RTL-SDR unit that we previously successfully crowdfunded back in 2018. With a 4-channel phase coherent RTL-SDR interesting applications like...
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Reporters use ADS-B Data to Uncover the Role US Private Contractors Play in...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have recently run a story about how they have used ADS-B aircraft data to uncover the role that US civilian aircraft contractors are playing...
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