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SDR# GPredict Satellite Tracking Plugin
Thanks to Alex for submitting news about his new SDR# plugin called "SDRSharp.GpredictConnector". This plugin allows SDR# to interface with GPredict which is a tool used for tracking the orbit of...
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Developing an Alternative To GPS with a HackRF
The Aerospace Sextant System The LA Times recently ran a story that discussed how vulnerable GPS is to malicious spoofing. This has been well known for a number of years now with researchers having...
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Uniden Announce the SDS100: A Software Defined Handheld Scanner
The Uniden SDS100 Handheld SDR Based Scanner Radio manufacturer Uniden have just released news about their latest product called the SDS100 which is a handheld software defined radio scanner...
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Radio For Everyone: Testing the RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA,...
Akos, author of his blog 'Radio for Everyone' has recently reviewed our new RTL-SDR.com Triple Filtered ADS-B LNA. In the review he compares our ADS-B LNA against another external ADS-B LNA by...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Decoding FT-8 and RTTY with an SDRplay RSP1A
Over on YouTube radio content creator Techminds has recently started a series that shows how to decode various signals using an SDR such as the SDRplay RSP1A. The first video explains what FT-8 is and...
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GridTracker Now Available on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu (Debian)
In early February we posted news about the release of a program called GridTracker. GridTracker is a live mapping program for WSJT-X which is a software decoder for low power weak signal ham...
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PiAware Radar – A Traditional Radar-Like Display for ADS-B, and Setting up an...
PiAware Radar is a Python script that connects to your PiAware server and uses the received ADS-B data to display a familiar radar-like display (green circle with rotating radius, and aircraft...
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New SDR# Plugin: Toolbar Menu Plugin
Eddie Mac has just released another useful plugin for SDR# called "Toolbar Plugin". This is an accessibility improvement plugin that simply puts many of the plugin controls on the SDR# toolbar. This...
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An Intro to RTL-SDR: Technical DSP Concepts Explained
Over on his blog Ajoo has posted a very comprehensive introduction to the technical concepts behind RTL-SDR, as well as any other SDR in existence. His post first goes through the basic communications...
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Explaining and Demonstrating Jam and Replay Attacks on Keyless Entry Systems...
Thank you to Christopher for submitting to us an article that he's written for a project of his that demonstrates how vulnerable vehicle keyless entry systems are to jam and replay attacks. In the...
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moRFeus: A Low Cost Wideband Signal Generator and Frequency Mixer
During development of the Outernet project the engineering team developed several tools to help them in their RF testing. One tool that they created has now been developed further into a commercial...
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A Review of the HackRF PortaPack (With Havok Firmware)
The PortaPack is a US$220 add-on for the HackRF software defined radio (HackRF + PortaPack + Accessory Amazon bundle) which allows you to go portable with the HackRF and a battery pack. It features a...
View ArticleUsing a Transmit/Receive Switch to Protect an SDR from a Transmit Radio
A question that comes up often is how to combine an RTL-SDR, or any other RX only SDR with a transmit capable amateur radio. It's not possible to connect the RX only SDR together with the TX radio via...
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Art from Satellite Transmissions: SatNOGS and Software Defined Radio used in...
One of the piezo speakers playing the satellite transmissions. In the past we've seen software defined radio's like the HackRF use to create art installations such as the 'Holypager', which was an art...
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Wireless LAN Professionals Podcast: What is HackRF, PortaPack, and HAVOC?
Over on the Wireless LAN Professional Podcast Keith and Blake Krone discuss the HackRF, PortaPack and the Havoc firmware in episode 138. The HackRF is a US$299 transmit capable SDR which has been very...
View ArticleGoing Portable with the Airspy HF+, Raspberry Pi and 7-Inch Touch LCD
Over on the swling blog we've seen a post where contributor 'Tudor' demonstrates his Airspy HF+ running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 3, 7-inch touchscreen LCD, and USB power bank. The video shows GQRX...
View ArticleExploring CubicSDR with a Video Tutorial
Over on YouTube Corrosive has uploaded a new video where he explores CubicSDR, and explains all the windows and settings that it has. CubicSDR is a free RTL-SDR compatible cross-platform open source...
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Using QIRX SDR and DAB Signals to Calibrate RTL-SDR Dongles
Over on his site, Clem the author of the QIRX SDR software package has written up a three part series where he explains an ultra-fast and very accurate method for calibrating the frequency offset of...
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Information on Time Correlating Signals with RTL-SDRs
In a previous post back in September 2017 Stefan Scholl (DC9ST) treated us to a very interesting write up about how to localize transmitters to within a few meters using time difference of arrival...
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Optimizing the RSP1A at LF/MW/HF by Understanding Intermodulation
SDRplay have recently published an informative white paper that explains what intermodulation and higher order mixing effects are, and how they can affect reception on an SDR such as the SDRplay. This...
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