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RTL-SDR + Upconverter vs. Portable Shortwave Receiver
Akos from the SDR for Mariners blog has put together an article doing a comparison between the RTL-SDR + ham-it-up upconverter and a Grunding G8 Traveler II Digital conventional portable hardware...
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Studying VOR Signals with the RTL-SDR
VHF Omni Directional Radio Range (VOR) signals are used in aviation as a short range radio navigational system. Amateur radio hobbyist F4GKR decided to study these VOR signals by recording them using...
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Monitoring APRS with the RTL-SDR
YouTube user Troy McQuinn has uploaded a video showing how he is able to decode amateur radio APRS signals. APRS is an acronym for Automatic Packet Reporting System and is used by ham radio users to...
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Receiving 10m RTTY with the RTL-SDR
YouTube user Łukasz Kosson has uploaded a video showing how he was able to decode RTTY signals on 10m (28 MHz). RTTY is an acronym for Radio Teletype, and is a method used to transmit text. To decode...
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Register your interest in Airspy
You can now register your interest in purchasing an AirSpy software defined radio dongle on the new AirSpy website. AirSpy is a new software defined radio similar to the RTL-SDR currently under...
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The BIG List of RTL-SDR Supported Software
There are now dozens of software defined radio packages that support the RTL-SDR. On this page we will attempt to list, categorize and provide a brief overview of each software program. We categorize...
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LevelMeter: New SDR# Plugin
LevelMeter is a new plugin for SDR# which displays an RX power meter of the currently tuned frequency. It can show either the RX power of the current VFO frequency, the average RX power in Bandwidth,...
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RTLAMR: An RTL-SDR Receiver for 900MHz ISM Smart Meters
Smart meters are meters that monitor electricity usage and wirelessly transmit consumption data to the electricity company. They are a part of the “smart grid”, and allow for better electricity control...
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Active ADS-B Antenna now for Sale
Last year in November we ran a post about an active PCB based ADS-B antenna which was used with the RTL-SDR.The antenna was created by F5ANN, and he used his active antenna together with an RTL-SDR...
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New CTCSS Detector Plugin for SDR#
CTCSS is an acronym for Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System and is a system that is used in shared two way radio systems. It is common for a single radio channel to be shared over a number of user...
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Listening to D-STAR Digital Voice with DSD 1.7
D-STAR or (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) digital voice and data protocol used in amateur radio.Up...
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Spotlight on Linrad
Recently a reader wrote in to correct some mistakes regarding the Linrad software on our big list of RTL-SDR supported software post. Along with those corrections this reader also wanted us to know how...
View ArticleRadio Signal Identification “Encyclopedia” Paperback
Yesterday a reader wrote in to let us know about two comprehensive paperback books about radio signal identification that he’d found online. This reader thought the books would be relevant to RTL-SDR...
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Installing and Calibrating Linrad
Just in time to follow up on our previous post highlighting Linrad, the author of Linrad has released a new YouTube video showing how to install and properly calibrate Linrad for an RTL-SDR in order to...
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Using the RTL-SDR as a Panadapter
PW2VLW’s shows on his blog how to adapt an Icom IC-706 hardware radio to be able to use an RTL-SDR as a cheap panadapter (Note site is in Portuguese, so use Google Translate). A panadapter is device...
View ArticleReceiving D-STAR Voice with DSD 1.7 on Windows
Recently we posted about PU2VLW’s project where he was able to decode and listen to D-STAR voice using an RTL-SDR and SDR# running on Windows connected via physical audio cable to a second Linux...
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Analyzing TD-LTE with the RTL-SDR
TD-LTE is a mobile phone standard acronym for Time Division Long Term Evolution. It is one of two variants of LTE technology, with the other being FD-LTE (Frequency Division LTE).Over in China where...
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Fork of SDR# with Added Features
Recently an RTL-SDR.com reader wrote in to let us know about a fork of SDR# written by “Gubo682″ which has some added features. Note you will need to be a member of the SDR# Yahoo group to access the...
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Acarsdec 2.0: A Multi-Channel Realtime Linux ACARS Decoder which supports...
Acarsdec is a recently released open source, multi-channel realtime ACARS decoder for Linux. It supports direct input from an RTL-SDR dongle, and with the RTL-SDR can listen to four ACARS channels...
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Installing SDR# on OSX
SDR# is the most commonly used Software Defined Radio receiver GUI that is used with the RTL-SDR. Natively, it runs on Windows, but since it is written in C#, it can also run on Mac OSX and Linux with...
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