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      • KerberosSDR Quickstart Guide
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Posts

  • Home Made Coat Hanger Discone May 1, 2013
  • Meteor Reflection Observations with RTL-SDR May 1, 2013
  • SDR-J Decoding DAB Radio in Software using RTL-SDR April 29, 2013
  • RTL-SDR Tutorial: Cheap AIS Ship Tracking April 29, 2013
  • RTL-SDR Direct Sampling Compared with WebSDR April 28, 2013
  • RTL-SDR Receiving Sporadic-E April 27, 2013
  • SDRSharp Trunking Plugin Updated April 27, 2013
  • RTL-SDR at 80m with Homemade VEE Antenna and Butterworth Filter April 25, 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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