Frugal Radio: Decoding ACARS on VHF with your SDR Radio

From www.rtl-sdr.com 2 years ago in Blogs

Rob from Frugal Radio has recently uploaded episode five in his YouTube series on Aviation monitoring. This episode covers VHF ACARS decoding with an RTL-SDR. ACARS is an acronym for Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System and is a short text based wireless communications system used by aircraft when communicating...

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Video Demonstrating Hydrogen Line Detection with an RTL-SDR and WiFi Dish

From www.rtl-sdr.com 1 week ago in Blogs

Back in January 2020 we posted a tutorial showing how it's possible to detect and measure the galactic Hydrogen line using a simple 2.4 GHz WiFi dish, RTL-SDR Blog V3 and a filtered LNA. Since then many people have used...

TechMinds: Receiving and Decoding Packets from the GreenCube Cubesat Digipeater

From www.rtl-sdr.com 1 week ago in Blogs

GreenCube is a CubeSat by the Sapienza University of Rome, and it is designed to demonstrate an autonomous biological laboratory for cultivating plants onboard a CubeSat. While this is an interesting mission in itself, for amateur radio operators there is...

Building an OpenWebRX Server with an RTL-SDR Blog V3 for HF Monitoring

From www.rtl-sdr.com 1 week ago in Blogs

Thank you to Ramadhan (YD1RUH) who has put together a brief set of commands showing how to quickly get setup with OpenWebRX and an RTL-SDR Blog V3. OpenWebRX is a web based SDR program that allows users to use their...

uSDR: A TX/RX 300-3700 MHz, 30.72 MSPS Capable SDR with M.2 Interface and Web Browser Control

From www.rtl-sdr.com 1 week ago in Blogs

Over on CrowdSupply a new SDR called "uSDR" created by Wavelet SDR has been announced (not to be confused with the uSDR software). uSDR is a tiny SDR that interfaces via an M.2 slot on a PC/laptop motherboard. Typically M.2...

RFinder P10 – An Android Tablet with a built in Two Way Radio and RTL-SDR

From www.rtl-sdr.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs

Recently we came across a company called RFinder / AndroidDMR who are a shop selling custom made two way radios and Android Tablets with built in radio hardware. One of their new tablets that is currently in pre-order is being...

Bouncing LoRa Signals off the Moon with a HackRF

From www.rtl-sdr.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs

One part of the amateur radio hobby is 'EME', or Earth-Moon-Earth. The idea is to bounce radio signals off the surface of the moon, and have them received over a vast distance. Typically weak signal amateur radio modulation schemes such...

IQEngine: A Web-Based Toolkit for Sharing and Analyzing RF IQ Recordings

From www.rtl-sdr.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs

Thank you to Marc for submitting news of his new project called IQEngine. IQEngine is a free open source web project that allows users to upload IQ recordings of various signals, and share them. The idea is to over time...

Great Scott Gadgets to Develop a Universal Radio Test Instrument (URTI)

From www.rtl-sdr.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs

Great Scott Gadgets (GSG), creators of the HackRF, YARD Stick One and Great FET (among other products) have announced that they are developing a device called a "Universal Radio Test Instrument (URTI)". They note that: URTI will offer radio amateurs,...

Decoding the Mexican Seismic Alert System (SASMEX Alerta sísmica)

From www.rtl-sdr.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs

Back in 2015 we posted about the dsame software, which is a decoder for the American Emergency Alert System (EAS) which is encoded with the SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) protocol. EAS transmits on the NOAA weather frequency. Recently programmer...

DeFli: A Decentralized Network of RTL-SDRs on the Blockchain for UAV and Satellite Operators

From www.rtl-sdr.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs

Recently we came across a new project called DeFli and DeSky, which appears to be plans for a decentralized network of RTL-SDRs. The goal of the project is to provide decentralized access to ADS-B and satellite data through the use...