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Shielding the RTL-SDR
Over on Reddit user will1384 has posted about his imgur photo album that clearly documents some well researched steps that he took in an effort to shield the RTL-SDR dongle from interference....
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New Raspberry Pi Image with RTL-SDR Drivers and GNU Radio Built In
A new image for the Raspberry Pi containing RTL-SDR software has been made available by tech enthusiast Gareth Hayes. The image contains all the software and drivers needed to get started with the...
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Airspy Now Available for Pre-Order (Shipping Mid November)
The long awaited Airspy software defined radio is now available for preorder and will ship during mid November for those orders placed before November 7. It is priced at $199 USD. The Airspy is an RX...
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Radio Astronomy using a Differential Radiometer and Interferometer with an...
Amateur radio astronomer Marcus Leech often makes use of RTL-SDR dongles for his amateur radio astronomy experiments. Recently Marcus wrote a technical paper discussing a modern SDR implementation of a...
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Receiving Dead Satellites with the RTL-SDR
Recently happysat, a reader of RTL-SDR.com wrote in to let us know about an unusual hobby he has found with the RTL-SDR. Happysat has been using the RTL-SDR together with a QFH antenna to detect old...
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Demo of a New R820T Driver with extra Gain, Decimation and IF Filter Adjustments
Over on YouTube user mm6dos has uploaded a video showing a new driver he helped develop for the R820T tuner which is used in the most commonly purchased RTL-SDR dongles. He writes: A short...
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Nooelec Now Selling RTL-SDR’s with the R820T2 Tuner
Nooelec have recently begun selling RTL-SDR dongles with the R820T2 tuner chip in them. The R820T2 is a small upgrade over the R820T as it has slightly better overall sensitivity (seems to be around...
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Hackaday Prize Finalist: A PortableSDR
The popular Hackaday blog is having a contest where contestants submit homemade prototypes of opensource devices they have created. The prize is a trip to space and the winner will be awarded to the...
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Simple RTL-SDR Shielding with Copper Tape
Last month we posted about an RTL-SDR experimenter who shielded his RTL-SDR dongle using an aluminium case. Shielding the RTL-SDR helps to reduce out of band interference which can enter the device...
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Military SATCOM Satellite Reception with the RTL-SDR
Recently on YouTube user Tom Mladenov has been uploading videos showing reception of Military SATCOM satellites using an RTL-SDR dongle and QFH antenna tuned to 137 MHz. One video shows how sometimes...
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Android App RFAnalyzer Now on Google Play with Support for the RTL-SDR
Previously we posted about the new RFAnalyzer Android app for the HackRF which has a RF spectrum and waterfall display. Now RFAnalyzer is available on the Google Play store with experimental support...
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YouTube Airspy Review and Comparison
Over on YouTube user ranickel (aka W9RAN) has uploaded a video showing his review of the Airpsy software defined radio. Although the Airspy is not yet shipping, several independent reviewers received a...
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Decoding the Russian Parus (Cosmos) Navigation Satellites with the RTL-SDR
Once again Happysat, who previously wrote in to RTL-SDR.com to let us know how to receive dead satellites with the RTL-SDR has again written in to let us know about his latest achievements. Happysat...
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ADS-B Onboard a 737 with Realtime Primary Flight and Navigation Display
Recently we found this video from 2013 on YouTube by user carcharias04 showing an RTL-SDR being used for ADS-B on board a 737-800 commercial jet. In the video he uses a custom program that interfaces...
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SatNOGS – Hackaday Prize Winner uses RTL-SDR in Design
The popular Hackaday blog recently announced the winner of their grand competition to win a trip to space or $200k. The goal of the competition was to design and build the best example of “an open,...
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Watching a VHS Tape using a RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user DogsRNiceMineCraft has uploaded a video showing a VHS tape being played using an RTL-SDR. To do this he connected the RF out port on his VHS tape player by wrapping the RTL-SDR...
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Improving HF Reception By Disconnecting the Switching Power Supply on the...
By using an upconverter, direct sampling mod, or experimental software driver the RTL-SDR can be used for HF reception. However, a problem with HF reception and the RTL2832U chip is that it uses a...
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RTL-SDR As a Spectrum Analyzer
Hackaday has brought to attention a blog post by Kerry Wong which shows how the RTL-SDR can be used as a simple and inexpensive spectrum analyzer. In the past we’ve already posted numerous examples of...
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Reverse Engineering a Wireless Alarm with the HackRF
Wireless alarms consist of multiples devices such as sensors and detectors which all communicate to a central control box via RF signals. Blogger “fun over ip” decided that he wanted to understand the...
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Updates to Shielding the RTL-SDR with an Aluminium Case
A few weeks ago we posted about will1384 who had bought an aluminium case from Ebay and was using it to shield his RTL-SDR. After running multiple tests, will1384 discovered that the aluminium case was...
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