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Derpcon 2020 Talk: Breaking into the World of Software Defined Radio
Derpcon is a COVID-19 inspired information security conference that was held virtually between April 30 - May 1 2020. Recently the talks have been uploaded to their YouTube channel. One interesting SDR...
View ArticleA Self-Executable version of TempestSDR is now Available
TempestSDR is an open source tool made by Martin Marinov which allows you to use any SDR that has a supporting ExtIO (such as RTL-SDR, Airspy, SDRplay, HackRF) to receive the unintentional signals...
View ArticleTech Minds: A First Look at the HackRF Portapack
The Portapack is an add on for the HackRF SDR that allows the HackRF to be used portably without a PC. If you're interested, in the past we reviewed the Portapack with the Havok firmware, which enables...
View ArticleTech Minds: Testing the Mayhem Firmware on the HackRF Portapack
In a video uploaded to YouTube last week, Tech Minds explored the HackRF Portapack, which is an add on for the HackRF SDR that allows the HackRF to be used portably without a PC. In that video he...
View ArticleTech Minds: Eavesdropping on Video Monitors with TempestSDR
Over on his latest video Tech Minds' explores the use of TempestSDR to eavesdrop on video monitors with his Airspy Mini. TempestSDR is a program that we've posted about several times in the past. With...
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RadioSlate: A Tablet with Built in LimeSDR or HackRF
A new project called "RadioSlate" has recently been announced by Yian IT, a Chinese IoT company. RadioSlate will be an SDR-enabled tablet designed to be used with a HackRF or LimeSDR software defined...
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Alpha Version of SDR++ Released
SDR++ is an open source general purpose cross platform SDR program that Alexandre Rouma (@WhatsTheGeekYT) has been working on for the past few months. Recently he released his first Windows Alpha...
View ArticleTechMinds: Extending the Range of Transmit Capable SDRs with Amplifier
Over on his YouTube channel TechMinds has uploaded a new video showing how to use RF amplifiers to extend the transmit range of transmit capable SDRs like the LimeSDR, HackRF and PlutoSDR. Whilst they...
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Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with a HackRF
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is an ongoing project that aims to detect radio signals originating from intelligent species somewhere in the universe. Recently Alberto Caballero, a...
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Testing the Mayhem Firmware on a HackRF Portapack
The Portapack is an add on for the popular HackRF SDR which allows the HackRF to be used portably without a PC. Recently the cost of this hardware duo has come down to below US$150 due to low cost...
View ArticleSteve Mould Hacks Into his Car with a HackRF
Over on YouTube popular science content creator Steve Mould has uploaded a video showing how he was able to open his own car using a HackRF software defined radio. In the video Steve first uses the...
View ArticleDragonOS: Decoding FT8 on Linux with WSJT-X
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR program. The creator of DragonOS, Aaron, uploads various YouTube tutorials showing how to use some of the...
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SATSAGEN Spectrum Analyzer Software Updated: Now Supports RTL-SDR
Back in March last year we first posted about the release of SATSAGEN, and program by Alberto (IU1KVL) that allowed the PlutoSDR to work as a spectrum analyzer. SATSAGEN has recently been updated to...
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Receiving SpaceX Falcon 9 Telemetry with a HackRF and 1.2m Satellite Dish
Over on the Reddit /r/SpaceXLounge discussion board user /u/Xerbot has made an interesting post showing how u/derekcz was able to receive the telemetry signals from the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...
View ArticleReceiving Video Directly from a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket + Scott Manley Video
Last week we posted about how several users on Reddit & Twitter worked together to receive and decode text telemetry from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch using a HackRF, 1.2m dish with custom...
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Vector Measurements with an RTL-SDR and HackRF Based System
Over the course of 2020 Tomaž Šolc from Avian's Blog has been slowly working on an RTL-SDR based vector network analyzer system. The system currently consists of an ERASync Micro signal generator, a...
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Decoding NRSC5 HD Radio with GNU Radio and a HackRF
Thank you to "LikWidChz" for submitting his tutorial on receiving and decoding multiple NRSC5 (HD Radio) channels with the help of GNU Radio, a HackRF and the NRSC5 decoder. He writes: I wanted a way...
View ArticleTransmitting ggwave Sound Encoded Messages with a HackRF SDR
Thanks to Rado for submitting his news about the release of his project called "ggwave-fm" which allows transmitting of ggwave encoded messages with an SDR. The idea behind the original ggwave is to...
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Tech Minds: Remote SDR V2 with Orange Pi and Transmit Capable
In his latest YouTube video Tech Minds explains and demonstrates Remote SDR V2, which is software that allows you to easily remotely access either a PlutoSDR, HackRF or RTL-SDR software defined radio....
View ArticleDump1090 with HackRF Windows Support
Thank you to Egor for writing in a sharing his work on modifying dump1090 in order to support the HackRF on Windows. dump1090 is software that is often used with RTL-SDR dongles for decoding ADS-B data...
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