Before swearing my fealty to the Jolly Wrencher, I wrote for several other sites, creating more or less the same sort of content I do now. In fact, the topical overlap was enough that occasionally ...

[Carl] just found a yet another use for the RTL-SDR. He’s been decoding Inmarsat STD-C EGC messages with it. Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company. They provide communications all ...

A radio receiver consisting of just a very good analog-to-digital converter connected directly to the antenna plus a powerful computer could make a great radio. However, the present state of the ...

There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave (SW) radio, or indeed any form of radio broadcast. SDRs ...

RTL-SDR.COM is a blog about news and projects revolving around the “RTL-SDR” – a very cheap software defined radio based on DVB-T TV tuner dongles with the RTL2832U chip. The RTL-SDR can be used as a ...

Are you following this? My sense of the direction of wireless products is that practically everything is becoming a software-defined radio (SDR). The highest-volume wireless products, cell phones, are ...

I'm working on a little project using a RTL_SDR dongle in a Raspberry Pi. I have it successfully tuning using RTL_FM and outputting the audio over the onboard sound.