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Decoding the RF Output of a VCR with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube use Scelly has uploaded a video showing how he has used an RTL-SDR dongle and the TVSharp SDR# plugin to decode video from the RF output of an old VCR (videocassette recorder). VCR...
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Talks and Poster Presentations from the HamSCI 2021 Virtual Workshop
HamSCI is an organization dedicated citizen radio science and specifically the "publicity and promotion of projects that advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities"....
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Is the Titus II Portable Android Tablet Shortwave SDR Close to Release?
The PatronX Titus II SDR is something we've been posting about several times since 2016, but in the end it was never released and assumed to be vaporware. However, we found that the website for the...
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SDRUno 1.41 Released: Scheduler and ADS-B Plugins Added
Last week SDRplay released version 1.41 of their SDRUno software platform. SDRuno is the official software for the SDRplay line of low cost software defined radio devices. The main new feature is the...
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Comparing the Malahit DSP-2 Russian Original vs Chinese Clone
Over on the SWLing.com blog guest poster Dan Robinson has posted an article comparing the Russian made original "Malahit" DSP-2 (~$200) vs the Chinese clone who have upped the version number to DSP-3,...
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TAPR/ARRL DCC 2021 Talks Available on YouTube
The TAPR/ARRL Digital Communications Conference (DCC) was held virtually during September 17 - 18 2021 and the live streamed talks are now available on YouTube. DCC is a yearly conference with many SDR...
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SDR Talks from the SDRMakerspace Online Presentation
Thank you to Robert for letting us know about these videos from the "ESA ARTES SDR MakerSpace Presentations" from September 6-8, 2021 which are now available on YouTube. Libre Space Foundation (...
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TechMinds: Testing SDR++ The Bloat Free SDR Software
Over on YouTube TechMinds has recently released a video where he overview SDR++, dubbed as the "bloat free SDR software". We've been following the development of SDR++ for a while, and recently posted...
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KrakenSDR Update: New Prototypes, Software Updates, Campaign to Release Soon
KrakenSDR is our 5-tuner coherent software defined radio based on RTL-SDR. It is the successor to the KerberosSDR and will be crowdfunded on Crowd Supply with the campaign due to begin soon. Please...
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Frugal Radio: Decoding Fire, Ambulance MDT and Hospital Pagers with SDR++ and...
On this weeks Frugal Radio YouTube video, Rob explores how to decode Fire, Ambulance and Hospital pager data using SDR++ and PDW. In the video Rob first explains what applications pagers are used for...
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CCERA Memo on Building Small Introductory 21cm Telescopes for use with SDRs
CCERA is the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy which is run by Marcus Leech who is well known for experimenting with low cost SDR based radio astronomy projects. In the past we've seen...
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RasPad 3.0 Review: Building a Portable Raspberry Pi 4 Tablet with Built in...
The Raspad 3.0 is a portable tablet enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 4B. It comes with a high resolution 1280 x 800 10.1 inch touch LCD screen, built in speakers, built in battery and a plastic enclosure...
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Real-Time Radio Spectrum Map Database Demo with RTL-SDR and Android
Over on YouTube Dr. Diep N. Nguyen has posted a video showing work done to create a Real Time spectrum database by his team at University of Technology Sydney. The project involves the use of multiple...
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FutureSDR: An Async SDR Framework Implemented in Rust
FutureSDR is an experimental open source SDR framework (similar to GNU Radio) that is being developed by Bastian Bloessl. The idea behind the framework is that it is implemented in Rust, which is a...
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DragonOS: Spectrum Detection and Logging with RTL-SDR, ANTSDR and SDR4space.lite
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR software packages. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel showing how to use the various packages...
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Release the KrakenSDR! CrowdFunding now on Crowd Supply
KrakenSDR is now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply. Thank you to all interested parties for your patience while we navigated recent pandemic-related delays. KrakenSDR is a five-channel,...
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dumphfdl: A Multichannel HFDL Decoder for SDR
Thank you to Tomasz Lemiech for writing in and sharing with us the release of his new software "dumphfdl". Tomasz is the author of dumpvdl2 and also maintains RTLSDR-Airband. Regarding dumphfdl Tomasz...
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Snooping Network Traffic from LAN Cables with an RTL-SDR or HackRF
Mordechai Guri is a cyber-security security researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Recently Guri has described a method for sniffing network data from LAN Ethernet cables over an...
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Imaging the Cygnus Star Forming Region with an RTL-SDR and Amateur Radio...
Over on Facebook Job Geheniau has posted results from his latest radio astronomy experiment which involves imaging the Cygnus-X star forming region at 1424 MHz with a 1.9m radio telescope, an RTL-SDR...
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KrakenSDR CrowdFunding Week 1 Updates
The following was posted to our Crowd Supply page as an update to our KrakenSDR crowd funding project. Funded! Thanks to everyone’s amazing support we were able to fund in less than 24 hours from...
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