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.
hmm, what i would do with an AirSpy / AirVerter?
that’s easy:
i would tear the world in me…
spy and dominate the whole world…
ha ha ha.. 😀
am i now disqualified?
I am going to update rtl-sdr driver for carrier phase tracking which means exactly turning to a given frequency
I’d figure it out when I won it, but I probably won’t win it, so I’ll take this time to say hello!
The Spyverter will complement my current Airspy. Should I win another Airspy, it’ll be installed in a masthead enclosure alongside a PoE-powered computer board.
I use any kit to listen HAM radio (especially satellite), generic shortwave (ultility station), listening a 27mHz CB band, and use downconverter, detecting a noise source, especially monitor,router, poorly mobile phone charger/adapter, unshield VGA cable etc . . . Currently use a cheap 820 dongle with hardware direct sampling mod combined with external home-made low-pass filters. The all things first : i’m amazing to (it means generic) SDR, no one hear the signal – i see it ! We get to know the radio frequency spectrum as never seen before. I am convinced that transforms the perception of SDR Radio image, and this change is just begun. And finally : Happy new year everybody !
I would use Airspy primarily with the fabulous SDR# software. (My web link is Finnish Bandplan.xml for SDR#)
I would like to listen whats in air? Airplane, POCSAG and simply Radio 😉
I would use my present stick for a more static setup listening for Pocsag msg´s from the local fire service, and use the Airspy for my experiments ( assuming it performs better than my present stick 😉 )
Would use it to record the FM microphones my teachers use !
Hope to win!
I want to experiment with ADS-B and integrate it with air traffic management system .
The pleasure of listening to the waves, the whole world, the joy of receiving a beautiful picture transmitted by a weather satellite, receiving at sea a weather bulletin emitted via Navtex, transmitting messages via Outernet, receiving info via Immarsat, listening a station In his mother tongue on the other side of the earth! It’s great to be able to do all this with technology so advanced and yet easily transportable. Congratulations and happy new year!
With Spyverter I could listen to HF amateur radio; with Airspy I could set up AIS or ADSB server. Also I want to have fun with NOAA satellite image receiving.
Cool, I#d like to use it for shortwave reception and ADSB!
Hello to everybody, I’m new to SDR and I’ d like to use the Airspy for L band satellites and Spyverter to tune to LF/MW/HF frequencies between DC-30 MHz. Thanks from Italy..
My dream is to become a spy and of course with airspy………….
Hello,
As Radio Ham I would like to use Airspy and Spyverter for two reasons:
Weather ballons tracking
Panadapter functions
Very cool competition! I would really like to get some SDR gear for listening on HF bands. I would like to create a remotely operated SDR that one could access from the internet to listen on the HF signals available in my area. That would help transmitting ham operators to see how far their signal goes!
I’d like to use Airspy + Spyverter for listen HF.
Since i’m a ham, I would use it as an panadapter, would try to connect to outernet with the airspy, I would finally get motivated to learn how to use the gnu radio and not to play CS:GO on my free time. 73!
Simas LY3EU
I would like to see if I could use them for MW DX.
I just finished getting an MS in Comp Sci and I want to use my free time to learn about software defined radio. Thanks for the opportunity!
It is just the right piece to have! Experiment on different frequencies and modes.
I just want to learn more about radio freq. Nope its usefull got my future later 🙂
*hope
I would like to use AirSpy for the following:
– learn more about the existing frequencies used by the current IoT devices
– to use it during IoT and NFC pentests
– to know more about the surveillance programs around me (if any)
– to experiment and also try to develop to gain more benefits from the device
Good luck everyone. I would love a Spyverter. Best upconverter IMHO,
I’d like to start listening to the hf bands
I would use this to listen to hams in Europe.
I would use the airspy receiver / converter for satellite reception of meteor m1/2 and for HF reception.
Feelin the waves.
Emissions in the lower bands are my obsession!
I love to use it for analyze DMR protocol.
I would love to use the Airspy with unitrunker. !!!! ya P25 decoding!!!
My father is an electronic engineer and radio amateur since 1967… from 7 years old he teach me all i know now about electronics and telecommunications… from valves and coils to basics of modern electronics, now i have 43 years old an a son of 7 years old and a daughter of 3 years and i wnat to teach both as same way i learned…
From my point of view the future is sdr.. (like DMR) .in all ways… I live in a politically difficult country where the all media are censored, for people like me ( with knowledge of electronics and telecommunications) is very useful a simple and portable system to know what happen in our country… Apart from what I said earlier about my children learning everything I know and these new technologies.
As i said… SDR is the future.
Sorry my english
Thanks in advance:
Jesus Rios
Want to build a broad band portable swl receiver
I would love to have one for HF listening.
I would like to start exploring very low frequency radio signals, determine modes (modulations) that are used, and listen CW communications.
I’d love to setup an APRS igate for my area. Monitor smart meters from around the neighborhood. Setup a fully automatic NOAA receiver that posts received images to the web automatically.
I want to listen to Jupiter and the Sun; possibly, Ionospheric openings.
I would use it for use it for receiving P25 and digital HF and possibly seeing if it can be integrated into some of the scripts and tools we use at work.