YouTube Tutorial: Building a Passive IMSI Catcher with an RTL-SDR

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

Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting his YouTube tutorial on how to build a passive IMSI catcher with an RTL-SDR. He writes: In this video im processes of easy step by step building a passive IMSI catcher. The purpose of this video is to be educational - to highlight...

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Black Friday Sales on Airspy and SDRplay Products

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

Black Friday is upon us again. This year we were not expecting any major sales as the component supply chain crisis has meant that many electronic products, including SDRs are very low in stock. However, there are two great sales...

CaribouLite Crowd Funding Launched: A $119 30-6000 MHz 13-bit 2.5 MHz Bandwidth TX/RX SDR Hat for the Raspberry Pi

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

Back in June of this year we first posted about the upcoming CaribouLite product which is a software defined radio HAT for the Raspberry Pi. The project has just launched on Crowd Supply with a price tag of $119 for...

Frugal Radio: Choosing a “Step Up” Software Defined Radio

From www.rtl-sdr.com 7 days ago in Blogs

In this weeks Frugal Radio episode Rob explores some low cost "Step Up" radios that for a moderately higher price, can give improved receiver performance when compared to RTL-SDRs . In the video Rob overviews and compares the Airspy Mini...

LeanHRPT – A set of tools for the manipulation of HRPT data

From www.rtl-sdr.com 7 days ago in Blogs

Over on Reddit u/Xerbot has posted about the release of his new software called "LeanHRPT". When combined with a software defined radio, this software can be used to decode and view HRPT weather satellite images received from satellites such as...

GNU Radio Conference 2021 Talks Now Available on YouTube

From www.rtl-sdr.com 7 days ago in Blogs

The GNU Radio YouTube channel has recently finished uploading the talks from GRCon21, this years annual GNU Radio Conference. GNU Radio is an open source development toolkit for signals processing and is commonly used to build software demodulators and decoders...

Receiving Starlink Beacons with a HackRF Supercluster

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

Over on Reddit member u/OlegKutkov has recently posted about his success at receiving Starlink beacons at 11.325 GHz with his HackRF "supercluster". Starlink is an Elon Musk / SpaceX venture that aims to provide fast global satellite internet access for...

Lightweight Windows Software uSDR Updated to Version 1.4.0

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

Back in July we posted about the release of Viol Tailor's "uSDR" software, which is a lightweight general purpose multimode program for Windows which supports the RTL-SDR, Airspy, BladeRF, HackRF and LimeSDR radios. Recently Viol has updated the software to...

SignalsEverywhere: Setting up the Retrogram Terminal Spectrum Analyzer for the PlutoSDR

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

This week on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel Sarah shows how to install the "Retrogram" software. This is a command line 'retro' styled spectrum analyzer designed to be used with the PlutoSDR. The software makes use of ASCII art to display...

Tech Minds: Testing the Cloudmarkers SDRuno Community Plugin

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

This week on the Tech Minds YouTube channel Matthew introduces the "Cloudmarkers" plugin for SDRuno. SDRuno is the official software for the SDRplay RSP line of software defined radios, but the EXTio version also supports the RTL-SDR. Cloudmarkers is a...

SignalsEverywhere tests our RTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band Patch Antenna

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

Sarah from the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel is back this week with a video review and demonstration of our RTL-SDR Blog Active L-Band patch antenna, which is designed for receiving Inmarsat and Iridium satellites between 1525 - 1660 MHz with an...