Airspy and YouLoop Black Friday Sale Now Active: 20% OFF
Airspy is holding their annual Black Friday sale, this year offering 20% off their range of products. The sale is active at all participating resellers, which includes our own store where we have the...
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SDRplay RSPdx Black Friday and Holiday Season Sale Now Active
SDRplay have today announced a sale on their "RSPdx" product which runs from today until December 31st. The new pricing is £130/€156/$169.95 plus shipping and any applicable taxes. This pricing is...
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RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Patch, Bullseye, YouLoop Sale
This Black Friday we are offering a discount on our L-Band Patch, Bullseye and YouLoop antennas in our store and marketplace listings! The sale will run until the end of November. Our L-Band patch is...
View ArticleA Software Based VGA AGC Implementation for the RTL-SDR
Thank you to Chris G for writing in and sharing with us his software VGA ADC controller for the RTL-SDR. AGC or 'automatic gain control' is an algorithm that attempts to automatically adjust the gain...
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SDR Special Tool Kit: A Ruggedized Enclosure for two RTL-SDR V3 Dongles
Terminal Armament, one of our resellers of RTL-SDR V3 dongles in the USA has created a companion product called the SDR Special Tool Kit (SDR-STK) which is a tactical ruggedized enclosure for two...
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Maverick-603: An Affordable FT8 Receiver with an Open Source RF Chip
The Maverick-603 is a US$149 FT8 receiver based on an open source RF chip design which is capable of acquiring signals between 7 MHz and 70 MHz (technically 1 MHz to 100 MHz). It is currently...
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DEF CON 30 RF Talks: Biohacking, Designing Antennas, Tracking Military Ghost...
DEF CON is a yearly conference with a focus on information security. At this years DEF CON 30 conference various talks on RF related topics were presented. In the past few weeks talks have been...
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RTL-SDR Blog V3 Dongle Back in Stock at Amazon + Upcoming Cosmetic Changes in...
This is just a quick note to say that the RTL-SDR Blog V3 silver dongles are back in stock at Amazon USA after having taken a bit longer to arrive than usual. Currently only the individual dongle and...
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tinySA Ultra Reviews: A 0.1 MHz – 6 GHz Spectrum Analyzer for $120
A few weeks ago the tinySA Ultra was released. This is a spectrum analyzer capable of operating between 0.1 - 800 MHz, or 0.1 MHz - 6 GHz with the 'Ultra' mode enabled. A spectrum analyzer is a tool...
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uSDR Updated to Version 1.6.0
Thank you to Viol for submitting news about the latest update of his uSDR software. uSDR (aka microSDR) is a lightweight general purpose multimode program for Windows that supports the RTL-SDR, Airspy,...
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SDRplay RSP1A Metal Enclosure Upgrade Back in Stock at Amazon
We just wanted to note that after a few months delay due to a missing shipment carton which has just been found, the SDRplay RSP1A Enclosure Upgrade set is back in stock at Amazon for US customers. We...
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KrakenSDR Locates a Repeater Jammer in 1 Hour
Over on YouTubem channel NotaRubicon Productions has uploaded a video describing how a KrakenSDR was used to find the location of a person jamming a repeater site. Amateur radio enthusiasts can utilize...
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Suspends Live ADS-B Aircraft Tracking Accounts Including...
As a reaction to an altercation with a stalker that endangered Elon Musk's child, Twitter has taken action to suspend all Twitter accounts that involve the real time tracking of aircraft and...
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Upgrading the Mahahit DSP1 and Malahit Chinese Clones into the Mahahit DSP2
Mahiteam is a Russian company that produces the relatively popular Malahit DSP1/DSP2 and Malahit DDC portable SDR radio which are great for shortwave listening, but can also cover up to 2 GHz. Manuel...
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Watch Duty: California Wildfire Watch Driven by RTL-SDRs
Over on Hackaday we've seen an interesting post about the non-profit "Watch Duty" wildfire reporting smart phone app for Californians. Several populated regions of California are extremely prone to...
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Tech Minds: Running the SDR++ Multiplatform Server on MacOS, Windows and...
SDR++ is an open source receiver program compatible with most software defined radios including the RTL-SDR that has been going through rapid development making it now one of the top software choices....
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Real Time Speech to Text from Radio Speech via DragonOS, SDR4Space, Mosquitto...
Real time high quality speech to text is now possible with OpenAI's WhisperCPP, a high-performance and open source automatic speech recognition model. In his latest video on YouTube, Aaron demonstrates...
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Tech Minds: Testing a Radiosonde Decoder Plugin for SDR++
In one of his latest YouTube videos, Matt who runs the Tech Minds YouTube channels has posted a demonstration of the Radiosonde decoder plugin for SDR++ called sdrpp_radionsonde. SDR++ is a software...
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Vitality GOES: A Web Interface for Displaying Weather Images from SatDump...
Thank you to Carl Reinemann (aka usradioguy) for submitting his article about Vitality GOES. Vitality GOES is an open source tool that displays the weather satellite images received by SatDump and/or...
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SDRSharp Big Guide Book Updated to V5.5
Paolo Romani (IZ1MLL) has recently released version 5.5 of his SDRSharp PDF Guide. The book is available for download on the Airspy downloads page, just scroll down to the title "SDR# Big Book" and...
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