Airspy New Year Competition: Comment to win Airspy and SpyVerter Prizes!
The team behind the Airspy have given us permission to give away three Airspy related prizes for the New Year Holidays! The first prize is an Airspy R2 + Spyverter, the second prize is an Airspy Mini + Spyverter and the third prize is a Spyverter.
The Airspy is a high performance yet low cost software defined radio with a 12-bit ADC and tuning range between 24 – 1800 MHz. It is an attractive device as its dynamic range exceeds all other SDRs in a similar price range. Its performance begins to approach that of the very high end expensive SDRs. High dynamic range means that weak and strong signals can coexist in the received spectrum without any overload occurring. We have previously written reviews of the Airspy R2 and Airspy Mini on our blog.
The Spyverter is a high performance upconverter that allows the Airspy to tune to LF/MW/HF frequencies between DC – 30 MHz. The Spyverter perfectly compliments an Airspy device as it is also a very high dynamic range device. It also works perfectly with the bias tee on our RTL-SDR.com V1/V2/V3 dongles. We previously reviewed the Spyverter here.
More information about these products can be found at airspy.com.
How to Enter
Competition is now finished. Winners will be announced and emailed shortly. Thanks to all who entered!
Winners:
Larry (Airspy R2 + SV)
If I am going to win something from this one stuff, me build internet remote receiver on hill in central Europe (CZ) for all readers and fans of rtl-sdr.com website, generally for all RTL SDR enthusiasts….. :-)))
Pour Felicitér 2017
Larry (Ladislav)
kevin (Airspy Mini + SV)
been a ham a couple years now. their are so many uses for sdr’s ! it’s so cool. just looking down the list of others comments, i was like ‘oh ya’ forgot about that idea. awhile back we did a demo at our ham club with a el cheapo sdr and it sparked some interest , would like to play around with some of the newest toys, worlds of diff in capabilities. ultimate goal is to find the right one for the clubs emergency trailer. seeing the bands and whats going on, is priceless 🙂
Josh (SpyVerter)
I’d love to finally get into the HF band!
The winners were randomly selected using random.org, and all have now been emailed. If you’re a winner, please check your email and spam folder just in case.
Thank you all for participating! It’s really great to see all the variety in what projects people are doing. There were about 500 valid entries resulting in about a 0.6% chance of winning. Keep an eye out for future contests!
Simply make a comment on this post explaining what you’d do like to do with an Airspy or Spyverter if you won one.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE COMMENT FORM.
The address will only be visible to us, and we promise not to use it for any other purpose.
Rules: The winners will be selected at random. One entry per person only. You must legally be allowed to receive the prize.
Draw closes in one week on 3 January 2017, 11:59PM UTC Time.
Would love to use it for HF, also decoding DMR and to build a repeater with Raspberry Pi.
Nice Contest! Being a HAM it would be great to see what signals are on the bands.
I would use it as a ground-station receiver.
Also, with Spyverter it can be used to create a simple reverse beacon 🙂
I would love to get a spyverter to listen below 28mhz.
listening service frequency
I would set it up as a remote receiver for the local club
Monitoring of HF, digital decoding in the VHF/UHF LMR band and amateur satellites.
I would build a portable hf receiver
I would use it to listen to air and satellites
I’m radioamater end this is exactly what i shersh for my radio experiments!!!!!
Me gustaría tener el Spyverter para escuchar radioaficionados, el Airspy para hacer seguimiento de aviones y recibir satelites
Por error en el pc hay dos mensajes eliminar uno
Quiero el Airspy y el SpyVerter para hacer seguimiento de aviones,recibir satélites y para escuchar radioaficionados
I’m planning on building a portable scanner.
Airspy will be used for air traffic control listening, and Spyverter for ocassional HF radio amateur bands.
Hello all,
I would like to use airspy as low cost bit high tech spectrum analyzer and modulation analyzer with GNUradio or similari software.
Regards
Arrio Antonelli
nice promo, gl
I would like to use it for contest in ham radio and eme qso (earth-moon-earth radio contact, using our satellite for radio reflection to make radio contacts).
I will set up a receiving station at our local scouting club to make as many youngsters as possible enthousiastic for the radio hobby. We have a nice wooden club house with a desk op the first floor where we could make our radio setup!
I’d love to use it with a laptop and gps for signal mapping, and interference location.
Currently, I have a RTL2832U dongle. Its’ really nice. I’ve used it with my radio telescope. But for hydrogen spectrum observation, it becomes a challenge. Now, I wish to have Airspy dongle, so I can get better data with lower noise, lower temperature. I’m also trying with interferometers. With new dongle, I can do more with my radio telescope researches.
Also then, I can use the new dongle with outreach programs in Vietnam.
Good stuff
I currently set up station for NOAA weather satellite reception using a 10$ DVB dongle .If i get this Airspy and spyverter I would love to monitor HF ,VLF and LF bands .Building SID stations ,BPM time signal reception .And i would Also like to have a receive Jupiters noise
crispin316.1 Mhz
I would use it to listen to NOAA satellites.
I want to learn more about rf and digital signals with it.
I want to take mine to work (on the 27th floor) and play short wave listener and monitor ham bands during lunch hour!
Recently I started pentesting various IoT gadgets with help SDR , And Airspy device is more useful to testing and analyzing radio frequencies.so i required this airspy
I’d love to finally get into the HF band!
I would like to work my way up to inmarsat decoding
Surf the airwaves for strange and random signals. It would also be a extension to my ham radio gear.
I would use mine to monitor HF radio, especially for ham radio, WSPR, JT-65!!
I intend to make a monitoring station, for the earthquake and thunder; and / or a showroom for children school, to explain the digital world of radio communications.
My best 73 to all !
I want to add one to a 4m satellite dish to provide a downlink for the lunar cubesat missions – the data will be provided back to the mission teams via internet – the downlinks on X band will be fed into a LNC /LNA combo and an airspy would be the perfect back end receiver
I would demo the airapy and/or spyverter at the Dayton Mini Maker Faire in early August where we’ll be having several amateur radio demonstrations!
I would sure have fun seeing what I could hear using the Airspy and Spyverter. They sound fantastic. Yeah man!
I would use it for Outernet and POCSAG snooping 🙂
With the transverter it would be fun on the digital sub bands on HF/LF, 473KHz WSPR for example.
What I would do with it is use it to listen to trunked channels with frequencies outside the 2 mhz bandwidth of the regular r820t dongle.
I would hook it up to an android car radio to have a mobile listening post
If I won either the AirSpy Mini or the R2, I would completely upgrade the standard RTL-SDR dongle with the RTL2832 with higher end performing chip so I can sweep in those weaker signals that just simply can’t be seen with those noisy low-cost RTL solutions, and with the SpyVerter I hope to inch on that 60 kHz WWV signal beacon tone, or just simple tune into AM broadcast in my local rural area. ***Thanks for the great opportunity to give your readers, us, the chance to win something that isn’t so boring, what a great post-Christmas gift!***
I would monitor local emergency services mostly — maybe give ADS-B a shot to monitor the local airfield traffic.
All sorts of stuff, just better than with regular dongles. Weather satellites, HF radio, police radio, ADS-B.