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HackRF Opera Cake Released: A Rapid RF Switching Board
Back in 2016 Michael Ossmann, founder of Great Scott Gadgets and creator of the HackRF released schematics for 'Opera Cake', a rapid RF switching add on board for the HackRF. We also saw back in a...
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Tech Minds: Testing an RTL-SDR Wideband Scanner with WebUI
Over on YouTube Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel has put up a video demonstrating an open source program released on GitHub called "RTL SDR Scanner", or "rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp". This program is...
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Hacking Beepers at a Fish & Chip Shop with an RTL-SDR and HackRF
Over on YouTube Paul from "Tall Paul Tech" has uploaded a video showing how he was able to reverse engineer the wireless protocol used by a simple restaurant beeper (aka 'burger pager') notification...
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Great Scott Gadgets to Develop a Universal Radio Test Instrument (URTI)
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...
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Bouncing LoRa Signals off the Moon with a HackRF
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...
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Reverse Engineering a Wirelessly Controlled Adjustable Bed with a HackRF and...
Over on his blog Chris Laplante has written up a post showing how he was able to reverse engineer his wirelessly controlled adjustable "TEMPUR-Contour Elite Breeze" bed. Originally the bed did have an...
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Progress Updates on the GSG Universal Radio Test Instrument (URIT)
In May we posted about how Great Scott Gadgets (GSG), the team behind the HackRF SDR and several other popular products, are in the early stages of developing a new type of SDR product called the...
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Receiving Images from the US DoD Coriolis Satellite
Over on dereksgc's YouTube channel another recent video from his satellite decoding series shows how to download images from the Coriolis satellite, a US Department of Defense satellite launched in...
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Demonstrating the FM Capture Effect – Why Aircraft use AM
Over on his YouTube channel Tall Paul Tech has uploaded a video that demonstrates the FM (frequency modulation) capture effect. Apart from the costs and difficult logistics to change from AM to FM...
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Lab401: HackRF on Windows YouTube Tutorials
Over on the Lab401 YouTube channel, 'RocketGod' has uploaded three videos that are various tutorials for the HackRF on Windows. The first video covers the basics like installing software and shows how...
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Tech Minds: Making your own SDR Software With GNU Radio Companion
In his latest video out on YouTube, Matt from the Tech Minds channel gives us an overview of GNU Radio, and shows a few examples of how it can be used to receive, transmit and decode digital data. GNU...
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Tech Minds: A Beginners Guide to the HackRF and Portapack with Mayhem Firmware
In one of his latest videos Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel has created a beginners guide to the HackRF and Portapack with the Mayhem Firmware. The HackRF is a popular affordable software...
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Canada Moves to Ban Flipper Zero and Possibly Software Defined Radios
Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister of Public safety has recently declared that they plan to ban devices "used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the...
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Tech Minds: Taking a look at the new HackRF PortaPack Mayhem Version 2 Firmware
A few days ago the programmers of the popular Mayhem firmware for the HackRF Portapack released version V2.0.0. The new version includes multiple improvements specified in the release text below. We...
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WarDragon Passive Radar with Blah2 and ADS-B Delay-Doppler Truth
Over on his YouTube channel, Aaron, creator of DragonOS and the WarDragon kit has uploaded a video showing the Blah2 passive radar software working with an SDRplay RSPDuo. In the video Aaron shows some...
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Great Scott Gadgets URTI: Phase Two Progress Report
Over on their GitHub, Great Scott Gadgets, creators of the popular HackRF SDR, have created a phase two progress report for their upcoming URTI product. URTI (Universal Radio Test Instrument) is their...
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Flipper Zero Starts a Petition To Fight Canada Ban
Back in early February we reported about how the Canadian government is making plans to completely ban the Flipper Zero, and popular pentesting tool. The wording from Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister...
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Antennas Explained: Finding the Best Antenna for HackRF, RTL-SDR and Other...
Over on YouTube sn0ren has uploaded a well produced video to help beginners to the radio hobby understand antennas. The video explains how antennas work in theory, and how to choose the best antenna...
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SignalsEverywhere: Using HackTV to Transmit Analog Television with a HackRF
Over on her YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Sarah has uploaded a new video showing how to use a program called 'hacktv-gui' to transmit analog TV signals using a HackRF software defined radio....
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HackRF and Portapack Featured in Recent Linus Tech Tips Video
Over on YouTube the Linus Tech Tips channel has recently released a video about the HackRF titled "It’s TOO Easy to Accidentally Do Illegal Stuff with This". Linus Tech Tips is an extremely popular...
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