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RPiTX Beta for Raspberry Pi 4 Released
Evariste (F5OEO) has just announced the release of an update to RPiTX which allows it to now be used on a Raspberry Pi 4. If you are unfamiliar with it, RPiTX is a program for Raspberry Pi single board...
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SDRplay Announce Understanding Radio Communications Course for Academic Teachers
SDRplay have announced the start of their undergraduate University course titled "Understanding Radio Communications". This course is created by the Sapienza University of Rome and consists of text...
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The $49 tinySA Spectrum Analyzer
Thank you to a few readers for suggesting a post about the "tinySA". The tinySA is a low cost standalone spectrum analyzer which was made recently available from Chinese manufacturer "Hugen" who was...
View ArticleAndreas Spiess Shows how to Properly use a NanoVNA V2
Over on his channel popular electronics YouTuber Andrea Spiess has uploaded a tutorial video showing how to properly use a NanoVNA V2. The NanoVNA V2 is a vector network analyzer which can be used to...
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Happysat Reviews the QO-100 Bullseye LNB
Thank you to Happysat for reviewing the QO-100 Bullseye LNB which we have available in our store, eBay and Aliexpress. The Bullseye LNB is an ultra stable TCXO (temperature compensated oscillator)...
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RF Fingerprinting ADS-B Signals for Security
At this years ICNP 2020 IEEE conference a paper titled "Real-World ADS-B signal recognition based on Radio Frequency Fingerprinting" (pdf file) was presented by researchers from the University of...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 6 – Trunk Tracking Public Safety Systems with...
In this episode of Frugal Radio's ongoing SDR Guide videos Rob demonstrates how he uses Unitrunker and SDR Trunk with SDRs like an RTL-SDR to monitor Public Safety networks in his area. Rob writes:...
View ArticleTech Minds: SDRplay Interviews, Design Lab and Manufacturing Tour
In this week's Tech Minds video Matthew interviews the SDRplay team and also takes a tour of their design lab and PCB manufacturing facility. SDRplay is a manufacturer of low cost wideband software...
View ArticleEtherify: Transmitting Morse Code via Raspberry Pi Ethernet RF Leakage
Over on his blog SQ5BPF has been documenting a TEMPEST experiment where he's been able to transmit data via RF being leaked from a Raspberry Pi's Ethernet connection. The idea was born when he found...
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Hack Chat: Learning SDR and DSP with Marc Lichtman
On Wednesday Nov 11 Noon Pacific time, Hackaday will hold a hack chat (group text chat session) with Marc Lictman, author of the free online book "PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP using Python". We posted...
View ArticleAndreas Spiess Tracks Weather Balloons with a TTGO LoRa Board and RTL-SDR
Earlier in August we posted about radiosondy.info and the MySondy radiosonde receiver. Radiosondy.info is an internet service that aggregates radiosonde weather balloon data received and decoded by...
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Radio Spectrum Analysis in Virtual Reality with an RTL-SDR and Google Cardboard
Thank you to José Carlos Rueda for submitting his project called "a-radio: a web virtual reality radio power spectrum analyzer". The idea behind the project is to first use an RTL-SDR together with...
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A 3D Printed Automatically Adjusting Linear Antenna Array for KerberosSDR...
Over on GitLab Josh Conway has released a design for an automatically adjusting antenna array which can be used with radio direction finding capable SDRs like our KerberosSDR. KerberosSDR is a SDR...
View ArticleFrugal Radio: Sharing One Antenna with Fifteen Receivers
In his latest video Frugal Radio shows how he shares one antenna with fifteen SDR and scanner receivers using two splitters/multicouplers. He explains that he uses a low cost $35 second hand 1->8...
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DF Aggregator: New Software for Networked Radio Direction Finding with...
Over on GitHub Corey (ckoval7) has released a new open source radio direction program called "DF Aggregator". This software is able to receive bearings and locations from multiple remotely networked...
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Hermes and Red Pitaya now Supported in OpenWebRX
Thank you to Stefan Dambeck (DC7DS) for submitting news about OpenWebRX adding support for Hermes HPSDR compatible SDRs. Hermes is a single board version of the open source high performance SDR (HPSDR)...
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Information about Receiving the GOES-13 Weather Satellite (Europe Coverage...
For some time now many weather satellite enthusiasts have enjoyed the ability to relatively easily receive live high resolution images directly from the GOES-16, GOES-17 and GK-2A geostationary...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Debugging RF Emissions on a Circuit Board with an RTL-SDR
Over on the Hackaday YouTube channel a video by Alex Whittemore has been uploaded showing how to do some basic RF emissions debugging. When creating electronic products it's important to ensure that...
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FengYun-2H/G Geostationary Weather Satellite Now Decodable with 120cm Dish...
Hot on the heels of the GOES-13 weather satellite decoder that we posted about a few days ago, @aang254 has just released a new RTL-SDR compatible decoder for the FengYun-2H, 2G and possibly 2E...
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Airspy Black Friday Deals Now Active
Airspy have released their black Friday 2020 deals today with 30% off. Back in 2019 we saw that the black friday deals were the best time to purchase an Airspy and we don't expect pricing to get...
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