To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio ...

Even though not every Hackaday reader is likely to be a radio enthusiast, it’s a fair guess that many of you will have experimented with an RTL-SDR USB dongle by now. These super-cheap devices ...

Using free software in conjunction with an RTL-SDR USB radio, you can design and prototype systems that process real-time wireless signals. Wireless engineers, students and hobbyists can learn to ...

The price is about $158, not including shipping. The device looks like a USB audio device to a computer, allowing it to work with a wide range of existing Windows, Mac OSX and Linux SDR software. Each ...

Another new piece of hardware gearing up to launch via the Crown Supply website is the StixRF a 70 MHz – 6 GHz SDR receiver, packaged in a small convenient to use USB stick. No timescales or ...

We’ve all used walkie-talkies at one point or another, or seen a cop do it on some movie. Short-hand radio has been around forever, but creating your own radio to listen in can cost hundreds of ...

While your home or car radio is designed to tune traditional AM or FM, an SDR dongle that you attach to your computer through your USB port can tune — with the appropriate software — shortwave ...

The only hardware required besides a computer is going to be a SDR receiver. The bulk of these radios are just USB TV tuners, re-branded and sold as SDR receivers. In this guide, I will be using a ...

This device is recommended to be used in conjunction with the book : A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver. This USB-based device captures a raw GPS data stream and saves it as a binary file on ...

The price is about $158, not including shipping. The device looks like a USB audio device to a computer, allowing it to work with a wide range of existing Windows, Mac OSX and Linux SDR software. Each ...