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Mykola: A New Fast Multichannel Scanner Application for RTL-SDR, Airspy and HackRF A new multichannel SDR scanner application called 'Mykola' has recently been released by a Ukrainian programmer with the same name as the application. A scanner application allows users to scan a much wider bandwidth than the SDR's instantaneous bandwidth, while automatically searching for active signals. Mykola advertises extreme scanning speed abilities, adaptive noise floor, and […]
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SDRSharp Frequency Manager Python Application Thank you to Argilli Marco (IU4HMY) for writing in and sharing with us his Python application called "SDR# Frequency Manager 1.0.1" for managing frequency lists in SDR#. SDR# is a popular free SDR program commonly used with RTL-SDR and Airspy dongles. Argilli writes: SDR# Frequency Manager is a Python application designed to simplify the management […]
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The Thought Emporium Explores IMSI Cell Phone Tracking and Other Advanced Cell Phone Attacks with Software Defined Radios Over on YouTube, The Thought Emporium channel has uploaded a video outlining how mobile phones constantly leak unique IMSI identifiers over the air, making passive location tracking much easier than most people expect. While LTE and 5G improve security, older 2G and 3G protocols still expose permanent subscriber IDs that can be collected and linked […]
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Building a P25 Police Scanner with an RTL-SDR Blog V3 and ZimaBoard 2 Over on YouTube, creator "MostlyBuilds" builds a networked digital police scanner using an RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongle and a compact x86 single-board computer called the ZimaBoard 2. The system receives over-the-air police radio signals, decodes digital P25 voice traffic, and turns it into an audio stream that can be listened to from any device on […]
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RadioTranscriber: Real-Time Public Safety Radio Transcription with Whisper AI Over in our new forums, user Nite has shared a new open-source project that he's created called RadioTranscriber, a real-time speech-to-text tool for public safety radio feeds using OpenAI’s Whisper large-v3 model. The idea is to take live scanner audio, such as authenticated streams from Broadcastify, and continuously turn it into readable text with minimal […]
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Building a DIY Off-Grid Weather Station with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR Receiver Thank you to Vinnie for writing in and sharing with us his home made Raspberry Pi based off-grid weather station, which uses an RTL-SDR to receive data. Being somewhat disappointed with a cheap all-in-one weather station's data, lack of local storage and customisation possibilities, Vinnie decided he could do better and build his own custom […]
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New RTL-SDR Blog Forum Active We've just activated a brand new RTL-SDR Blog forum based on the Discourse platform, and we will be retiring the old phpBB boards. If you have any questions or want to share anything relating to RTL-SDRs, SDRs, or the radio hobby in general, please feel free to log on and make a post. For troubleshooting […]
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rtl_haos: An rtl_433 to Home Assistant Bridge Thank you to Jaron McDaniel for writing in and sharing with us the release of his open source software called "rtl_haos". rtl_haos is a 'drop-in' bridge that turns one or more RTL-SDR dongles into Home Assistant friendly sensors via rtl_433 and MQTT. Jaron writes: I just finished a tool that that bridges data received from […]
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Frugal Radio: Using a 25 Dollar PC for Decoding with SDRs Over on YouTube, Rob from the Frugal Radio channel has uploaded a video showing that you don't need to shell out thousands for a capable PC to run your SDR. Robs finds five second-hand Dell Optiplex 9020 PCs advertised for just $25 each, and shows how each PC is powerful enough to run multiple SDR […]
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An Overview of 2025 SDR Black Friday Deals Below, we're collating the best Black Friday sales we could find on SDR and related products. If you find any other good sales for SDR or related products, please post in the comments! RTL-SDR Blog We're currently offering $5 of V3 dongles (including the V3c) on Amazon. The sale will last until Monday 1 December, […]
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halow_scanner: An RTL-SDR Based 802.11aH HaLow Channel Scanner Over on GitHub we've recently noticed the release of halow_scanner, a Python script that uses an RTL-SDR to scan the 802.11ah (WiFi HaLow) channels in the sub-GHz spectrum to determined which channels have the least noise/interference. Unlike standard WiFi, which operates outside of the RTL-SDRs range at 2.4 GHz+, 802.11ah operates in the sub-GHz ISM […]
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Software Defined Toolkit: A DIY Radio Reconnaissance Device with RTL-SDR and EvilCrow RF Inside Thank you to "p3rp0ul" for writing in and sharing his neat-looking build of a "Software Defined Toolkit," which consists of two RTL-SDRs, EvilCrow RF, and other RF signal conditioning hardware, all in a ruggedized metal enclosure. He writes: It’s a compact, field-ready SDR platform that consolidates two RTL-SDR receivers (one acquired via your site), a […]
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Talking Sasquach Reviews the uConsole and RTL-SDR Antenna Board Expansion The uConsole is a portable computer system based on the Raspberry Pi CM5 module. It adds a screen, battery, and complete hardware keyboard with a mouse trackball to the CM5, while allowing for various expansion boards. One such expansion board of interest to us is the RTL-SDR AIO V2 module, which adds an RTL-SDR, as […]
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Creating a Homemade Portable Raspberry Pi Based RTL-SDR System Thank you to Giuseppe (IT9YBG) for writing in and sharing with us his homemade portable RTL-SDR system made out of a Raspberry Pi 3, RTL-SDR Blog V3, 5-inch LCD screen, and a Bluetooth keyboard. Giuseppe notes that when running the system from a cell phone power bank, he only got about an hour's worth of […]
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Tech Minds: A Review of the Vivid Unit with GPSDR RTL-SDR Module The Vivid Unit is a single-board computer with a built-in LCD touch screen. There is an optional module called the "GPSDR," which is an RTL-SDR, upconverter, and GPSDO module that, when combined with the Vivid Unit, creates a handheld, portable SDR. Last month, we reviewed the Vivid Unit and its "GPSDR" RTL-SDR add-on module on […]
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Receiving DAB and FM Signals with an RTL-SDR and Engima2 on OpenPLi 9.0 Thank you to "Radioto bg" from DXing.org for writing in and sharing with us his latest YouTube video showing how to receive DAB and FM signals with an RTL-SDR and the Enigma2 application running on OpenPLi. OpenPLi is an open-source Linux distribution for TV set-top boxes and Engima2 is a TV reception application used within […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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A Review of the SunFounder Pironman 5 MAX Raspberry Pi 5 Enclosure Recently, SunFounder sent us a free review unit of their latest "Pironman 5 MAX" enclosure for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. While not directly related to SDR, we thought we'd accept the unit and review this product, as RTL-SDRs are often used together with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. Depending on the number of SDRs connected […]
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SDR-Hub: A New RTL-SDR Scanner and Audio Recorder with Web Interface Over on GitHub, user shajen has recently released a new open source program called "sdr-hub," which combines his two prior programs, called rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp and sdr-monitor, into one easy-to-launch project. The result is a powerful RTL-SDR scanner and audio recorder, with a web interface. In the past, we posted about rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp when Tech Minds made a […]
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SDR-Hub: A New RTL-SDR Scanner and Audio Recorder with Web Interface Over on GitHub, user shajen has recently released a new open source program called "sdr-hub," which combines his two prior programs, called rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp and sdr-monitor, into one easy-to-launch project. The result is a powerful RTL-SDR scanner and audio recorder, with a web interface. In the past, we posted about rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp when Tech Minds made a […]
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SDR-Hub: A New RTL-SDR Scanner and Audio Recorder with Web Interface Over on GitHub, user shajen has recently released a new open source program called "sdr-hub," which combines his two prior programs, called rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp and sdr-monitor, into one easy-to-launch project. The result is a powerful RTL-SDR scanner and audio recorder, with a web interface. In the past, we posted about rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp when Tech Minds made a […]
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SDR-Hub: A New RTL-SDR Scanner and Audio Recorder with Web Interface Over on GitHub, user shajen has recently released a new open source program called "sdr-hub," which combines his two prior programs, called rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp and sdr-monitor, into one easy-to-launch project. The result is a powerful RTL-SDR scanner and audio recorder, with a web interface. In the past, we posted about rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp when Tech Minds made a […]
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SDR-Hub: A New RTL-SDR Scanner and Audio Recorder with Web Interface Over on GitHub, user shajen has recently released a new open source program called "sdr-hub," which combines his two prior programs, called rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp and sdr-monitor, into one easy-to-launch project. The result is a powerful RTL-SDR scanner and audio recorder, with a web interface. In the past, we posted about rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp when Tech Minds made a […]
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