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.
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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.
If I won, I’d like to try looking at satellite transmissions such as the NOAA satellites and decoding the images they broadcast. I’ve also been interested in doing more things in the HF bands, since I never used them very much. My friends and I are also trying to design and build our own 40 meter band transceivers, so using an RTL-SDR to receive the signals after testing with an oscilloscope is on my bucket list.
Please let me win!
SDR?! Software defined radio?! What is this and why haven’t I seen this?!?! This sounds like a rabbit hole that if I dive into I will never come out of… Wish me luck!
The Airspy would be perfect for receiving wireless microphones used in broadcasting. There are not many radios that tune all of the UHF TV frequency range (470 MHz to 698 MHz).
I would love to use it for HF reception.
I’m not saying I’m going to use it to listen to aliens…
But I’m going to listen to aliens.
hello all,,,,
radio is a wonderful hobby.. and SDRs are a amazing addon to this hobby. recently one of my friend demonstrated the DRM broadcast on his SDR dongle. from that date i want to possess SDR dongle because the DRM enabled radio sets are too costly here in India. so if i win i will try to explore DRM on this AIRSPY kit.
thanks and regards
Manisha Jain
73’s
I would love to have a unit with a higher bit ADC than my RTL stick to improve my listening capabilities.
I WISH AN AIRSPY TO LISTEN TO DRM BROADCAST VIA DREAM AND TO LISTEN RADIOAMATORS ON HF BANDS WHIT A WHIP ANTENNA OUTDOR !!
I would use an Airspy to see what is flying over my head.
I want a new Airspy to see if it is of any better quality than my Airspy R0 that has lots of spurious signals. If it works better I will use it mainly for FM DXing.
I would use it to receive all kinds of satellites, like i do with the RTL-SDR v3 in the moment.
It would be most often NOAA Sats and especially the Meteor-M2 Sat.
I would use it to create a permanent ADSB reception station.
Hi RTL-SDR Team,
I’m very interested to make mini-spectrum monitoring station with some automated tasks, AVD, Automatic Modulation Classification and Direction Finding….This gift must get me closer to my dream 🙂
Doesn’t meter what I type here as it is random and I don’t believe I lucky enough to win.
I don’t believe such kind of stuff can cover HF where I’m interested more but where I wished to use it just for ATC listening as flights data transmission as well. A lot of them enough not so far of London Heathrow. As well would like to play with local DMR.
Twice a year I visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S. Skies are always clear, QRM is nonexistent, and everything from 3 kHz to 30 MHz rings clear like a church bell on a hill. In fact, I am here right now for Christmas week.
I am hoping to win so I can leave my large receiver at home, walk down to the beach with only a netbook, use the offshore breezes to fly a kite antenna a hundred feet or so off the ground, and take in the bounty offered up by the ether.
Thanks, and happy new year to all.
I have an spare RasPi 2, so if I win, it’ll be my new WebSDR setup for HF!
I want to get it. Good site with intresting posts.
I would love to receive one of those so i could build a L-Band receiver. If i also get the spyverter i will be also able to receive HF!
🙂
I’d use the Airspy and Spyverter to setup a publicly available WebSDR HF receiver.
I want to use Airspy + Spyverter for listen HF. Decode digital signals, get SSB and maybe to open my websdr site!
If I win I would give it away to the next young ham student at my radio club to pass his/her test. I can afford to buy one–most young kids just starting in the hobby can not.
I would like to use a Spyverter for monitoring distant VLF stations and logging the effects of solar disturbance SIDs
on those signals.
I want expand my current knowledge of SDR and utilize all its functions! Especially for NOA satellites and other fun space projects.
I love the fact that you can begin tuning at DC and then continue to explore the whole radio wave spectrum! The VLF frequencies have always held a special fascination for me. There is still so much more to explore and discover!
I’ll prove to a radioamateur that SDRs are the new technology and they’ll get even smaller and better . Also , with the Spyverter upconverter , I’ll demonstrate that ham radio isn’t dead .
I’m very pleased from my SDR-RTL device, but I still need a good multi band antenna for better reception.
I have an rtl-sdr.com module, and it is a great value, but I could use an Airspy (more resolution!) to poke the Tektronix rep and ask him why his spectrum analyzers cost so much!
I would like to listen air traffic controlers
I would like to listen air traffic controlers.
Make a portable hf receiver
Make a vlf receiver.
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 🙂
Will be used when I go on the road to travel. Will uses with ADS-B for Air Travel and then to decode NXDN, DMR, etc. when monitoring at my travel destination.
I would like to use airspy for receiving C-band Inmarsat sattelites to decode ACARS
I would track and receive communications from CubeSats.
If I were to win an Airspy I would enjoy POCSAG decoding. So many dispatch channels have gone encrypted here, police blotters can no longer easily be published but POCSAG still sees reasonable use. Similarly using it to decode Mototurbo and some proprietary speech codecs when scanning would be very fun.
When not doing something so understood, I would try my hand at circut spectrum analysis and would enjoy the Spyverter for understanding HF propagation better (a nod to the previous WWV comment). Receiving GOES would also be amazing.
I will use for Outernet on Inmarsat and LRPT data from Meteor-M N2 🙂
Have always wanted to try out your products. Winning would be great.
I would use it for ADS-B
I will use it to test my SDR tool with HF