RTL-SDR.com V3 Stock Availability and Holiday Shipping Times
This is just an update post for those wishing to purchase or are waiting on delivery for items from our store at www.rtl-sdr.com/store. Amazon USA The RTL-SDR.com V3 has proven to be more popular than...
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New Linux RTL-SDR Driver with Fully Exposed Controls
A new Linux based driver for the RTL-SDR has been released by Milen Rangelov (aka gat3way) which exposes all the adjustable settings on the R820T/2 tuner chips. This exposes adjustable sliders for...
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Receiving CB Radio with an RTL-SDR Dongle
Back in July we posted a story by Mario Fillipi (N2HUN) who wrote an article about using the RTL-SDR to receive CB radio, and how while the CB radio heyday is over, there are still opportunities for...
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Review of the ThumbNet N3
Back when it was released in November we posted an initial unboxing and initial first impressions review of the ThumbNet N3 RTL-SDR dongle. In this post we continue that review and post a few more in...
View ArticleRemapping a Keyboard Volume Wheel for Knob Tuning in HDSDR
Earlier in the month we showed a post where Mile Kokotov hacked together a $3 SDR frequency tuning knob out of a mouse and cheap rotary encoder. Now over on YouTube user m khanfar shows us another...
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Wireless Analysis of 868 MHz Traffic with an RTL-SDR and the Traffic...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has developed an Android app that allows you to analyze wireless traffic at 868 MHz using an RTL-SDR dongle. In Europe, many wireless IOT, metering...
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Windows Version of the Fully Exposed RTL-SDR Driver now Available
Last week we posted about Milen Rangelov’s (gat3way) new RTL-SDR driver which has exposed filter and gain settings for the R820T/2 chip. This should let you tweak for optimal reception much better....
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Airspy Mini Christmas Sale – $80 USD
The Airspy Mini is a software defined radio with a tuning range of 24 MHz to 1800 MHz, 12-bit ADC and up to 6 MHz of bandwidth. It usually costs $99 USD and is the younger brother of the $149 USD...
View ArticleA Cooking Pot L-Band Antenna
Over on YouTube Adam 9A4QV has uploaded a video showing us his home made cooking pot L-band antenna. The antenna consists of a large aluminum cooking pot which acts as a reflector and a cross-dipole...
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30% Off Outernet L-Band RTL-SDR DIY Kits – $70 for RTL-SDR, LNA, Antenna,...
Outernet is an L-band satellite service that aims to be a “library in the sky”. They are constantly transmitting data such as up to date news, weather updates, Wikipedia pages, books, ISS APRS repeats...
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Analyzing HF Over the Horizon Radar in GNU Radio
Over the Horizon radar is typically used at HF frequencies and is used to detect targets from hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from the radar station. On HF they are very common and can be...
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3D Printing an RTL-SDR Cooler Block
Over on the 3D printing sharing site Thingiverse, user “Way” has uploaded a 3D printer design for an RTL-SDR cooler block. The block works by allowing a PC cooling fan to blow air efficiently over the...
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Decapping the R820T and RTL2832U Chips
Over on YouTube the electronupdate channel has posted a video showing the decapping of the R820T and RTL2832U chips. Decapping is the process of removing the plastic packaging on integrated circuit...
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Radio For Everyone new Posts: RTL-SDR Accessories, 5 Easy Mods, FAQ,...
Akos from the radioforeveryone.com blog (previously sdrformariners/rtlsdrforeveryone) has recently added several new posts. The first new post is a beginners guide to RTL-SDR accessories. In this post...
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Airspy New Year Competition: Comment to win Airspy and SpyVerter Prizes!
The team behind the Airspy have given us permission to give away three Airspy related prizes for the New Year Holidays! The first prize is an Airspy R2 + Spyverter, the second prize is an Airspy Mini +...
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Simulating GPS with LimeSDR and Receiving it with an RTL-SDR
In previous posts we showed how Phillip Hahn had been trying to use his RTL-SDR as a GPS receiver on a high powered rocket in order to overcome the COCOM limits which prevent commercial GPS devices...
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Designing a Remote SDR Station
Over on his blog w5fcx has posted an article that explains how he’s managed to set up a remote software defined radio based ham radio station. The article is more focused on high end ham equipment for...
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A Guide to Using RPiTX and an RTL-SDR to Reverse Engineer and Control ASK/OOK...
Erhard E. has been experimenting with capturing, analyzing, reverse engineering and then transmitting new ASK/OOK signals with his RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi running RPiTX. Erhard has written a very...
View ArticleTalks from the 33rd Chaos Computer Club Conference
Videos from the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress [33c3] of the Chaos Computer Club have recently been uploaded to YouTube. This is a yearly European conference with a theme on hacking. This year...
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Building a Wideband Vivaldi Antenna for SDR Use
Vivaldi’s are linearly polarized broadband antennas that have a directional radiation pattern at higher frequencies. The high end SDR manufacturer RF Space produces their own Vivaldi antennas made from...
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