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In Car ADS-B with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user adsbrus shows us his project which is an in car ADS-B aircraft tracker using a Raspberry Pi mini computer and an RTL-SDR. The system uses an LCD screen mounted where the car radio...
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Transmitting Data with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR
Hackaday brings to attention a simple hack where hacker Marc uses an antenna connected to a general purpose I/O (GPIO) pin on his Raspberry Pi to wirelessly transmit a wav file via AFSK modulation to...
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Icecream Box Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Receiver
Over on our Facebook page Micheal Kent has posted about his raspberry pi based RTL-SDR receiver which runs rtl_udp. There’s not much more information on this project, but the video he posted shows what...
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Raspberry PiRate Radio FM Transmitter
In November last year we posted a story showing how a Raspberry Pi could be used to transmit a digital AFSK signal to an RTL-SDR or other radio simply by connecting a wire to a GPIO pin. Now an...
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Controlling a Remote Controlled Car with an RTL-SDR Attached to a Raspberry Pi
Over on YouTube user SilverXiaify has uploaded a video of a project he completed for a class in his electrical engineering school. His project involves controlling a remote controlled car using a ham...
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Transmitting DVBT HDTV from a Raspberry Pi to an RTL2832U
Over on his blog, OZ9AEC has uploaded a post showing how he was able to create a live HDTV transmitter out of a Raspberry Pi, a Raspi Cam module and a UTC DVB-T Modulator adaptor. As he does not want...
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Automatic Heatmap Logging on a Raspberry Pi using an RTL-SDR and RTL_POWER
Amateur radio hobbyist DE8MSH recently wrote in to let us know about a project he has been working on. His project involves using a Raspberry Pi B and RTL-SDR to automatically log a wide band heatmap...
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RTL_POWER Heatmap Viewer
Back in June we posted about DE8MSH’s rtl_power based heatmap viewer which was automatically generated every day from a Raspberry Pi. The browser based heatmap display provides a way to view the...
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FlightAware Introduces PiAware for use with RTL-SDR and dump1090 on a...
FlightAware is an online service providing real time flight tracking. The flights are primarily tracked by volunteers who run ADS-B decoding hardware which is networked through the internet to the...
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Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer Scanner
Adafruit has released a tutorial showing how to build a portable TFT screen based Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR spectrum analyzer that was inspired by the HackRF portapack. Construction of the project is very...
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New Raspberry Pi Image with RTL-SDR Drivers and GNU Radio Built In
A new image for the Raspberry Pi containing RTL-SDR software has been made available by tech enthusiast Gareth Hayes. The image contains all the software and drivers needed to get started with the...
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A self contained ADS-B Receiver using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR
Over on the Raspberry Pi Reddit discussion board user spfoamer has posted about his Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR based outdoor ADS-B receiver. ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast and...
View ArticleSDRRecorder – A Linux Script for Recording an IQ Stream at a given Date and Time
Programmer MichelinoK has just released another one of his projects. This one is called SDRRecorder and is a Linux bash script that can be used to automatically record an IQ stream of any frequency and...
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New Raspberry PI Remote RTL-SDR GUI Software: MNM4SDR
Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Slaven Krilic wrote in to use to announce his project called MNM4SDR which stands for Monitoring Network Manager for RTL-SDR. The software allows you to set up a remote...
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Transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ with just a Raspberry Pi
Previously we posted about the Raspberry Pi’s ability to modulate one of its pins to produce FM transmissions with PiFM. A developer (F5OEO) has recently expanded on this idea, and now the Raspberry Pi...
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Building a Ham Transceiver with an RTL-SDR, Raspberry Pi and Rpitx
A few days ago we posted about RpiTx, a piece of software that allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a multi purpose transmitter by modulating the output on one of the GPIO pins. Now over on...
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Raspberry Pi Docker Images for ADS-B and ACARS with the RTL-SDR
Docker is a Linux based platform which allows you to build and deploy complex applications into a self contained “container” package that contains all the needed applications and dependencies. The...
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PiTX QRP TX Shield for WSPR on 20M Now For Sale
Back in October 2015 we posted about a piece of software for the Raspberry Pi called PiTX. PiTX allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a fully functional RF transmitter. When combined with an...
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RTLSDR4Everyone: Raspberry Pi guide & choosing your first dongle
Over on his blog rtlsdr4everyone author Akos has recently uploaded three new posts. The first post is about the Raspberry Pi minicomputer and the post discusses the merits of using the Raspberry Pi...
View ArticleSetting up a Raspberry Pi Based AIS Receiver with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Tobias Härling has uploaded a video showing how he used a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR dongle to set up an AIS receiver. AIS stands for Automatic Identification System and is a radio...
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