Building a Transmit/Receive Relay System for a “Boat Anchor” Transmitter and...
Over on YouTube user ElPaso TubeAmps has uploaded a video showing his transit/receiver relay system that allows a "boat anchor" (old radio) ham radio transmitter and SDRplay SDR receiver to coexist. In...
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SDRplay Spectrum Analyzer Software Updated to V1.0a
Steve Andrew, the author of the SDRplay Spectrum Analyzer software has recently released an update which enables several new features. This software allows you to use SDRplay SDRs to scan a wide swath...
View ArticleSDRPlay Hamvention Demo of SDRUno and RSPDuo Diversity Features
At this years Hamvention Chris Howard from ICQ Amateur interviewed Andy at the SDRplay booth. In the interview they discuss various new features and improvements to SDRuno, the official software for...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: What SDR To Buy? Choose the Right one For You
Over on his YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Corrosive has just released a new video titled "Software Defined Radio Introduction | What SDR To Buy? | Choose the Right one For You". The video is an...
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Two Antenna Diversity For the SDRPlay RSPDuo now Available in SDRUno
The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software defined radio capable of tuning between 1 kHz - 2 GHz. It's defining feature is that it has two receivers in one radio, which should allow for...
View ArticleA Demonstration of RSPDuo Diversity Being used to Cancel Local Interference
SDRPlay have recently published a video demonstrating how the new RSPduo diversity feature in SDRUno can be used to cancel local interference. The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software...
View ArticleSDRplay RSPDuo Diversity: Combing a Magnetic Loop and Miniwhip Antenna
The SDRplay team have posted some more videos that demonstrate the SDRplay Duo's diversity function. The SDRplay RSPDuo is a 14-bit dual tuner software defined radio capable of tuning between 1 kHz - 2...
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RTL-SDR.COM GOES 16/17 and GK-2A Weather Satellite Reception Comprehensive...
GOES 16/17 and GK-2A are geosynchronous weather satellites that transmit high resolution weather images and data. In particular they are far enough away from the earth to be able to take beautiful...
View ArticleTV Scrambling With GNU Radio and a FL2K Adapter
[mrgriscomredux] over on [Reddit] was interested in re-creating the nostalgia that was scrambled analog television from the 90s. To do this he captured an NTSC analog video signal using an RSP1 SDR and...
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Reviews of the Low Cost MLA-30 Wide Band HF Magnetic Loop Antenna
Recently Chinese manufacturers have begun producing a low cost wide band (100 kHz - 30 MHz) magnetic loop HF antenna known as the MLA-30. The loop can be found on eBay for under US$45 with free...
View ArticleLeif Continues his Comparisons of the Airspy HF+ Discovery, RSP1, Perseus and...
Leif (SM5BSZ) is fairly well known in the SDR community for doing very indepth technical tests of various SDR receivers over on his YouTube channel. Recently he's released part two of a series where he...
View ArticleMeasuring the USB Power Consumption of Various Software Defined Radios
Over on his YouTube channel icholakov has uploaded a video comparing the USB power consumption of various software defined radios. In his tests he uses an inline USB current meter and compares a...
View ArticleLeif Continues his Comparisons of the Airspy HF+ Discovery, RSP1, Perseus and...
Leif (sm5bsz)'s series comparing the Airspy HF+ Discovery against various other SDRs such as the Perseus, SDRplay RSP1, Airpsy HF+ Dual, Airspy + SpyVerter and AFEDRI SDR-Net continues again, with...
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G8JNJ Reverse Engineers and Reviews the MLA-30 HF Loop Antenna
Last month we posted a collection of reviews about the MLA-30 which is a budget magnetic loop antenna designed for receiving HF signals. The overall consensus from the reviews was that it worked...
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An Easy Windows GNU Radio Setup Guide and Video for the SDRplay
SDRplay have recently posted a new workflow document and video that shows how to easily set up GNU Radio on Windows with an SDRplay software defined radio. They write: GNU radio is a popular...
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An Active Low Cost HF Loop Antenna Made in the UK
Cross Country Wireless is a UK based company that has created an active HF loop antenna for only $70 USD including international shipping. The loop appears to have already been for sale for a while...
View ArticleMike Tests our RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Active Patch Antenna on an SDRplay RSP1a
Over on YouTube Mike Ladd (KD2KOG) from the SDRplay technical support team has uploaded a YouTube video showing him running our recently released RTL-SDR Blog L-Band Active Patch antenna on an SDRplay...
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SDRplay Release the RSPdx: Replaces the RSP2/pro, Filtering & Intermod...
The RSPdx SDRplay have just released their new SDR that they're calling the RSPdx. This is their new top end product which replaces the older RSP2/pro line. The RSPdx is designed for high performance...
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Running an RTL-SDR On up to 100 Meters of USB Ethernet Extension Cable
Over on Aliexpress and eBay there are now multiple USB2.0 extenders that work using Ethernet cable. These extenders advertise that is is possible to use up to 100m of Ethernet cable. Extending the USB...
View ArticleFirst YouTube Reviews of the SDRplay RSPdx
SDRplay recently released news about their upcoming RSPdx software defined radio, which replaces the RSP2 as the top of the line unit in the SDRplay lineup. The RSPdx is not yet on sale, but a few...
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