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A Good Quickstart Guide for RTL-SDR Linux Users
Recently we found this excellent quick start guide by Kenn Ranous which shows how to set up various RTL-SDR related software programs on (Debian) Linux. The guide shows how to install the drivers, how...
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Building your own Rogue GSM Basestation with a BladeRF
Over on his blog author Simone Margaritelli has added a tutorial that shows how to set up a bladeRF to act as a GSM basestation (cell tower). Having your own GSM basestation allows you to create your...
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New SDR# Audio Waterfall Plugin
The old audio waterfall plugin for SDR# seems to be no longer available for download anywhere (it may have gone out of date and is no longer compatible with the latest versions of SDR#). Alan Duffy...
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RTL-SDR.COM Broadcast FM Band-Stop Filter (88-108 MHz Reject) Now for Sale +...
In our store we have just released our new broadcast FM band-stop filter. The cost is $14.95 USD with free international air mail worldwide shipping. (Of course you may choose to upgrade to faster...
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Version 2.6 of GQRX Released
Version 2.6 of the popular SDR program GQRX has just been released (changelog). GQRX is a general signal browsing program similar to programs like SDR#, HDSDR and SDR-Console. However GQRX is designed...
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TETRA Decoding on Windows with Telive
TETRA is a type of digital voice and trunked radio communications system that stands for “Terrestrial Trunked Radio”. It is used heavily in many parts of the world, except for the USA. Telive is a...
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The 20th Cyberspectrum Software Defined Radio Meetup
Every month SDR evangelist Balint Seeber hosts the Cyberspectrum Meetup in San Francisco, where many SDR fans come together to listen to various presentations. The 20th Cyberspectrum SDR meetup has now...
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RTLSDR4Everyone: Review of the RTL-SDR V3 + Avoid Ripoff’s Part 4
Akos from the RTLSDR4Everyone blog has just released several new posts. The first three posts review our V3 dongle and the fourth post continues his series on helping users avoid bad deals when it...
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Outernet rxOS Version 3 Released: Automatic Decompression, APRS, NOAA Weather...
Outernet is a new L-band satellite services which aims to be a “library in the sky”. Their satellite signal can be received from almost anywhere in the world, and they aim to constantly transmit data...
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Identifying Transmitters with CTCSS Fingerprinting
Oona Räisänen is a RF hacker and enthusiast who has in the past brought us posts about decoding burger pagers in restaurants, decoding wireless bus signs and FM-RDS with SDR’s like the RTL-SDR. This...
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Experimenting with Broadcast FM RDS (TMC, RT+) and SCA Audio
A typical broadcast FM station can sometimes contain “hidden” subcarriers embedded within the main signal. The subcarriers contain data or audio services. An example of a data subcarrier hidden within...
View ArticleL-Band Setup with Mini LNA4ALL and Mini Patch Antenna
Over on his YouTube channel Adam 9A4QV has uploaded a new video showing reception of L-band signals with a bias tee powered LNA4ALL and a small patch antenna. The video seems to show a new miniature...
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Software for creating an Interactive RTL_POWER Visualization
RTL-SDR.com reader Dominic Chen recently wrote in to let us know about a new piece of software he’s created. The software is called d3-waterfall, and is an interactive web based waterfall display. It...
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KiwiSDR Soon to Accept General Orders
Back in April 2016 the KiwiSDR was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Since then almost all the rewards have been mailed out and the number of worldwide receivers available on sdr.hu has increased....
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New SDR# Plugin: Radio-Sky Spectrograph Data Stream
Radio-Sky Spectrograph is a radio astronomy software program which is often used together with the RTL-SDR or other similar SDRs. It is best explained by the author: Radio-Sky Spectrograph displays a...
View ArticleOuternet Weather Updates Now Coming Down
A few days ago we reported that the Outernet L-band satellite service had just upgraded their software to make it available for receiving APRS and weather updates. Back then it wasn’t clear what the...
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SDRDue: New Software for Passive Radar with Two Coherent RTL-SDR Dongles
Dr. Daniel Michał Kamiński, author of two SDR# plugins has recently released a new passive radar program for the RTL-SDR called “SDRDue”. Passive radar is a technique that makes use of signals from...
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A Multi-Channel Coherent RTL-SDR Product: For Passive Radar, Direction...
Coherent-receiver.com is a company which is a customer of our RTL-SDR V3 dongle and they have been working on creating a multi-channel coherent receiver product based on the RTL-SDR. An RTL-SDR...
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Reverse Engineering the Outernet Signal
Outernet is a satellite based file delivery service. Currently they’re beta testing their service and they are using RTL-SDR’s as the receiver. In previous posts we’ve seen that they’re now regularly...
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Our Quick Review of the ThumbNet N3 Prototype
Earlier this month Akos from the RTLSDR4Everyone blog reviewed a prototype of the latest ThumbNet N3 RTL-SDR. In this post we will also give a quick review of a prototype of their new unit which was...
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