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Monthly Archives: May, 2013

  • Satellite Receive Station with RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi May 19, 2013
  • RTL-SDR and Ham It Up In a Box May 19, 2013
  • List of SDRSharp Plugins May 18, 2013
  • How to Get RTL-SDR to work on Kali Linux May 17, 2013
  • Homemade ADS-B Collinear Antenna May 17, 2013
  • Reducing Interference in the RTL-SDR May 15, 2013
  • RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images May 13, 2013
  • Quad DVB-T Receiver Reported to work with RTL-SDR May 13, 2013
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The RTL-SDR is an ultra cheap software defined radio based on DVB-T TV tuners with RTL2832U chips. The RTL-SDR can be used as a wide band radio scanner. It may interest ham radio enthusiasts, hardware hackers, tinkerers and anyone interested in RF.
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