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Blindly Reverse Engineering a Wireless Protocol
Hackaday has brought to attention a document written by a Rory O’Hare which discusses the journey Rory took in trying a decode an unknown 433 MHz signal received from his SDR dongle. If you are...
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3D Frequency Spectrum Visualization with Chrome and RTL-SDR
Over on ttrftech’s blog in Japanese (use Google translate), ttrftech has uploaded a new RTL-SDR program for Chrome which allows 3D visualization of the frequency spectrum. The program can be installed...
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Radio Astronomy with RTL Bridge and Radio-Sky Spectrograph
Amateur radio astronomy hobbyist Jim Sky has written on his blog about his new program called RTL Bridge with allows the RTL-SDR to directly connect to his other radio astronomy programs Radio-SkyPipe...
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RTL_POWER Instructions
A new instructional page for the rtl_power tool is now available on main author keenerds webpage. Rtl_power is a command line tool for logging wide band frequency power scans to a CSV file. The CSV...
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Triangulation of a VHF Signal with RTLSDR-Scanner
A few months back we posted about how the the RTLSDR-Scanner software had been updated to include signal triangulation capabilities. Now blogger Tobby has written a post about his attempt at...
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RTL_POWER Heatmap Viewer
Back in June we posted about DE8MSH’s rtl_power based heatmap viewer which was automatically generated every day from a Raspberry Pi. The browser based heatmap display provides a way to view the...
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New Japanese HF Upconverter for the RTL-SDR
A new HF upconverter designed for the RTL-SDR has gone up on ttrftech’s Japanese language blog (use Google Translate). The upconverter is called the ‘SC-HFCONV-100′ and comes with 100 MHz oscillator,...
View ArticleUpdates on Keenerds RTL-SDR Improvement Project
If you didn’t already know Keenerd (aka Kyle Keen), author of rtl_fm, rtl_power, rtl_adsb and rtl_sdl is having a fundraiser to raise funds to pay for a month of RTL-SDR improvement programming. As of...
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Hak5: Exploring With The PortaPack and HDSDR
In this Hak5 episode Darren discusses the HackRF PortaPack which is a portable LCD screen device that connects to a HackRF SDR and allows portable frequency spectrum visualization. The PortaPack is...
View ArticleBrute Force Unlocking a Car with a USRP Software Defined Radio
Wired.com has posted an article showing how security researcher Cesare was able to use his USRP software defined radio to unlock a car with wireless entry. Essentially his hack involves brute forcing...
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Hak5: ToorCamp Finale And More Fun With SDR
In this episode of Hak5 amongst other things presenter Shannon explores yet another SDR GUI alternative at around the 14 minute mark. This time she shows SDR-RADIO which is an RTL-SDR compatible...
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XiOne – A RTL2832U based Portable Software Defined Radio: Indigogo Funding...
A new funding campaign for an RTL2832U based software defined radio has gone up on Indiegogo. The new SDR is called the XiOne and is intended to be the first SDR that is easy to use with smartphones...
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RTL-SDR Software Radio with CTypes
Thomas Winningham, author of the rtl_fm_python web application for the RTL-SDR has given a talk at the PyOhio 2014 conference. In Thomas’ presentation he gives an overview of the RTL-SDR dongle and...
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Black Hat Software Defined Radio Talks
Black Hat, a large conference about information security related topics has recently finished and videos of some of the talks given have now been uploaded to YouTube. This year we have found three...
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Videos from DEFCON 22 Wireless Village Talks
Another security and hacking conference that recently finished is Defcon 2014. During this conference there was a “Wireless Village” were there were talks discussing all things related to radio...
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Reverse Engineering Wireless Wall Outlets And Automatically Cloning OOK Signals
Wireless wall outlets are electrical outlets that can be turned on or off by a wireless remote. Fabien is an experimenter who was looking for a way to control the power of his home devices from a...
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HackRF Initial Review
The HackRF One is a new software defined radio that has recently been shipped out to Kickstarter funders. It is a transmit and receive capable SDR with 8-Bit ADC, 10 MHz to 6 GHz operating range and up...
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Receiving NTSC Analogue TV with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR
Over on GitHub user kik has uploaded a tutorial and code showing how to decode NTSC analogue TV in GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR. The tutorial is in Japanese, but Google translate should be good enough to...
View ArticleUsing an RTL-SDR as a Cheap Entropy Source
One of the many uses of the RTL-SDR is as a random number generator for generating entropy. Entropy is needed in computing for many application such as in encryption and security. Noel Bourke has...
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Roundup of Software Defined Radios
New software defined radio (SDRs) products are popping up every few months these days so we thought we’d compile a list of some of the most popular ones as there are a few people looking to upgrade...
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