Creating a Low Cost Ground Penetrating Radar with Two HackRFs
A ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a system that uses RF pulses between 10 to 2.6 GHz to image up to a few meters below the ground. A typical GPR system …
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Look4Sat: An Android App for Tracking and Predicting Amateur Radio and Weather Satellite Passes
Thank you to Arty Bishop for submitting news about his recently released Android App called Look4Sat. Look4Sat is a satellite tracker and pass predictor with a focus on amateur radio …
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Using Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) to Run Linux SDR Programs on Windows 10
Thank you to Happysat who has shared with us a useful tutorial that explains how we can run Linux only SDR programs on a Windows 10 system using the Windows Subsystem …
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New Elad FDM-S3 Specifications and Photos
The Elad FDM-S3 is an upcoming high performance Hf speciality SDR that is expected to be released this year with a price of 949.90 € ($1040 USD). Over on the swling.com …
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An Overview of the Elektor SDR Hands-on Arduino Shield Kit
Over on YouTube, Elektor have uploaded an overview of their Elektor SDR Hands-on kit. The €49.46 kit is an Arduino shield, that turns an Arduino microcontroller board into a 150 kHz …
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Using HackRFs to Locate a UAV Transmitter via Signal Strength Analysis
During the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting conference, authors Xuemei Huang, Kun Yan, Hsiao-Chun Wu and Yiyan Wu presented a research paper titled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hub …
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A Neat HF SDR Receiver made from an Audio Reverb Chip
Over on his blog, Ray Ring has posted about his neat little “Mini SDRadio” made from an Si5351 clock generator and a FV-1 reverb audio processor chip. The Spin Semiconductor …
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Shazam Style Automatic Signal Identification via the Sigidwiki Database
Thank you to José Carlos Rueda for submitting news about his work on converting a “Shazam”-like Python program made originally for song identification into a program that can be used to …
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NASA Finally Schedules Test of SpaceX Spacecraft Designed for Astronauts
The first flight test of an unpiloted SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has been scheduled for January, NASA announced this week. The test marks an important milestone for the United States, …
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Cheap and Easy Hydrogen Line Radio Astronomy with an RTL-SDR, WiFi Parabolic Grid Dish, LNA and SDRSharp
We’ve recently been testing methods to help budding amateur radio astronomers get into the hobby cheaply and easily. We have found that a low cost 2.4 GHz 100 cm x …
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