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RTL-SDR for Budget Radio Astronomy
With the right additional hardware, the RTL-SDR software defined radio can be used as a super cheap radio telescope for radio astronomy experiments such as Hydrogen line detection, meteor scatter and...
View ArticleTutorial: HF Decoding Tour with the FUNcube Dongle Pro+
On the FUNcube Dongle blog/store amateur radio enthusiast DK80K (a.k.a Nils) has sent in a link to a 16 page pdf file showing a comprehensive tour on the FUNcube Dongle Pro+’s capabilities on the HF...
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Using the RTL-SDR to listen to the Funcube Satellite
Recently, the FUNcube-1 satellite was successfully launched. The FUNcube is a CubeSat (a low cost miniature 10cm cube sized satellite) which is intended mainly for educating young people about radio,...
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Modifying a Laptop by Embedding an RTL-SDR and FunCube Dongle
Blogger “French Fry Cattaneo” wanted a portable laptop with built in SDR capability. To achieve this he opened up his Panasonic ToughBook CF-30 laptop and embedded an RTL-SDR FubCube dongle into the...
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How to Receive the Funcube Satellite with an RTL-SDR
Over on the Hamspirit.de blog author Jan as written a post explaining how to receive the FUNcube satellite with an RTL-SDR dongle (note in German, use Google translate). The FUNcube is a CubeSat (a low...
View ArticleComparing the RTL-SDR, FunCube PRO Plus and SDRplay on Moon Bounce/EME Reception
Moon Bounce or “Earth Moon Earth” (EME) is an amateur radio activity where people attempt to transmit a signal towards to the moon, and listen to the reflected signal. In some cases a separate...
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Monitoring FT8, JT65, JT9 on Multiple Bands with Low Cost Single Board PCs
Thank you to Michael (dg0opk) who wrote in and wanted to share details of his full SDR monitoring system for weak signal HF modes. His setup consists of nine ARM mini PCs (such as Banana Pi's,...
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SDR# and other Hobbyist Ham Radio Software Spotted in Netflix TV Show Yakamoz...
Thanks to all who submitted, we recently received some interesting tip offs about the Netflix TV Show Yakamoz S-245 featuring a scene with various hobbyist SDR and ham radio programs clearly visible....
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