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Frugal Radio: Turning Scrap Wire into an Effective HF Dipole
In this weeks video Rob from his Frugal Radio YouTube channel shows us how he's turned an old piece of scrap electrical extension cord into an effective HF antenna for his Airspy HF+ SDR. The scrap...
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uSDR: A Lightweight Multimode SDR Receiver Program for Windows
Thank you to Viol Tailor for submitting news about the release of his general purpose multimode software defined radio receiver program for Windows called "uSDR" or "microSDR". Viol writes that uSDR is...
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Receiving pH Readings from a Wireless Medical Implant with RTL-SDR
Over on Hackaday we've learned about an interesting investigation by James Wu who was recently implanted with a stomach pH (acidity) monitoring device called the "Medtronic Bravo Reflux Capsule"....
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Using an RTL-SDR in Dual-Comb Spectroscopy using Diode Lasers
Thank you to Antonio from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Department of Photonic Technology and Bioengineering for writing in and sharing with us his teams latest research titled "Dual-Comb...
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Frugal Radio: HFDL HF ACARS Decoding Tutorial
In Rob's latest episode of his excellent aviation communications series on his Frugal Radio YouTube channel he shows how to decode aircraft HF ACARS (HFDL) using a software defined radio. HFDL is short...
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Dump1090 now Available as an Android App
The company ebcTech who makes AIS Share for Android has recently come out with a new app which is an Android App version of Dump1090. Dump1090 is a popular command line based ADS-B decoder for RTL-SDR...
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Using an RTL-SDR Dongle to Receive Pictures from the ISS
Over on YouTube we've seen a good video from channel Ham Radio DX where presenter Hayden shows how to use an RTL-SDR to receive slow scan television (SSTV) images from the International Space Station...
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The KiwiSDR Backdoor Situation
Since it's announcement in early 2016 we've posted many times about the KiwiSDR, a 14-bit wideband RX only HF software defined radio created by John Seamons (ZL/KF6VO). The KiwiSDR has up to 32 MHz of...
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EZNEC Pro Antenna Modelling Software will be free from 2022
EZNEC is a popular antenna modelling program created by W7EL which is based on the "Numerical Electromagnetics Code" or NEC. With a NEC based antenna modelling program it is possible to design antennas...
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Decoding HFDL ACARS with a WebSDR and PC-HFDL
In the previous episode Rob from the Frugal Radio YouTube channel showed us how to decode HF ACARS using PC-HFDL and an HF capable SDR such as the Airspy HF+. In that episode he mentioned that it is...
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Elektro-L3 Geostationary Weather Satellite: Easy to Receive LRIT Signal Being...
Back in September 2020 we posted about the release of an X-Band decoder for the Elektro-L2 and Elektro-L3 Russian geostationary satellites. These satellites are receivable from Europe, the Middle East,...
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BSides Talk: Hacking RF Breaking what we can’t see
Over on YouTube the BSides Halifax channel has uploaded a recent talk given by Security Engineer Grant Colgan titled "Hacking RF Breaking what we can't see". In the talk Grant first shows the various...
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TechMinds: Testing the RadioBerry an HF SDR Transceiver Raspberry Pi Hat
The RadioBerry is a HF transceiver board designed to be used as an add on 'hat' for the Raspberry Pi. It uses the same AD9866 chip as the Hermes Lite 2 SDR which gives it a 12-bit ADC with one RX and...
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SDR++ Version 1.0.0 Released
SDR++ is an open source, cross platform, C++ based GUI general receiver program for various SDRs including the RTL-SDR. Since it's alpha release in mid 2020, it has undergone huge amount of...
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Running an RTL-SDR on a QNAP NAS
Thankyou to M.Khanfar for submitting news about his latest project which involves running an RTL-SDR dongle on a QNAP NAS (network attached storage). Running a dongle on a NAS machine might be useful...
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NEWSDR 2021 Conference to be held Virtually on August 20
The 11th New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR 2021) will again be held online this year due to the ongoing pandemic. It is due to begin on Friday, 20 August 2021, 9:00 AM (EDT) – 5:30...
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SignalsEverywhere: Decoding HF WEFAX Weather Fax with an Airspy HF+ Discovery...
Over on YouTube Sarah is back this week with a new video on her channel SignalsEverywhere. In this video she shows how to decode HF WEFAX (weather fax) images using an Airspy HF+ Discovery software...
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Layering Geo-Spatial Fire Data onto GOES Satellite Imagery
Thank you to Carl Reinemann (aka usradioguy) for writing in and sharing with us how he has developed a script to layer FIRMS data (Fire Information for Resource Management System US / Canada) onto GOES...
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OpenWebRX Updated to V1.1.0
Thank you to Jason for writing in and letting us know that OpenWebRX Version 1.1.0 has been released on August 03. OpenWebRX is an open source program that allows users to make RTL-SDRs, KiwiSDRs and...
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SignalsEverywhere: Testing SDR++ A Hands on Overview
On on YouTube on the SignalsEverywhere channel Sarah has uploaded a new video where she gives a hands on overview of the SDR++ software. Last week we posted about the release of SDR++ V1.0.0, which is...
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