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Live: Perseids Meteor Shower with RTL-SDR
The annual Perseids meteor shower is peaking right now (this Wednesday and Thursday), and with the right equipment (and location) you can detect these meteors with an RTL-SDR dongle and appropriate...
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Creating a low cost Ozone Spectrometer out of RTL-SDR’s to measure...
Over at the MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford Massachusetts, researchers O.B Alam and A.E.E Rogers have been working on creating a low cost ground based Ozone spectrometer out of RTL-SDR dongles...
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Detecting Pulsars (Rotating Neutron Stars) with an RTL-SDR
The RTL-SDR has been used for some time now as an amateur radio astronomy tool. Radio astronomers Peter W East and GM Gancio have recently uploaded a paper that details their experiments with detecting...
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Radio Astronomy with an RTL-SDR, Raspberry PI and Amazon AWS IoT
Recently amateur radio astronomer Mario Cannistrà wrote in and showed us a link to his project. Mario has been doing some interesting experiments with an RTL-SDR that involve receiving emissions...
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Radio Astronomy Tool rtl_power_fftw Updated
The rtl_power program allows you to use the RTL-SDR to perform a power scan over an arbitrarily large portion of the frequency spectrum (within the RTL-SDR’s supported frequency range) by hopping over...
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Software De-Dispersion of RTL-SDR Pulsar Data
Back in September 2015 we posted about how radio astronomers Peter W East and GM Gancio were able to use an RTL-SDR dongle for the radio astronomy task of detecting pulsars. A pulsar is a rotating...
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Hydrogen Line Observation with an RTL-SDR
The RTL-SDR can be used for many interesting radio astronomy applications such as observing the Hydrogen line. Hydrogen atoms randomly emit photons at a wavelength of 21cm (1420.4058 MHz). Normally a...
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Notes on Amateur Radio Astronomy for Beginners
RTL-SDR.com reader Jean Marie Polard (F5VLB) recently wrote in to let us know about a useful document that he has put together which covers beginners amateur radio astronomy. The document includes...
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IF Average SDR# Plugin Updated
The IF Average tool is a RTL-SDR compatible plugin for SDR# which allows you to plot an average of the current spectrum shown in SDR#. This is especially useful for radio astronomers who often need to...
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Building a Quad RTL-SDR Receiver for Radio Astronomy
Amateur radio astronomer Peter W East has recently uploaded a new document to his website. The document details how he built a quad RTL-SDR based receiver for his radio astronomy experiments in...
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Radio-Sky Spectrograph now supports the SDRPlay
Radio-Sky Spectrograph is a radio astronomy software program that integrates data over long periods of time and displays it as a waterfall. It is described by the author: Radio-Sky Spectrograph...
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New SDR# Plugin: Radio-Sky Spectrograph Data Stream
Edit: If you downloaded an older version of the plugin please note that it has now been updated. The update fixes some stability issues which would previously hang SDR#. The updated .dll file can be...
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A Multi-Channel Coherent RTL-SDR Product: For Passive Radar, Direction...
Coherent-receiver.com is a company which is a customer of our RTL-SDR V3 dongle and they have been working on creating a multi-channel coherent receiver product based on the RTL-SDR. An RTL-SDR...
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Helping to Raise Funds for the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio...
Patchvonbraun (aka Marcus Leech) is one of the pioneers in using low cost SDR dongles for amateur radio astronomy experiments. In the past he’s shown us how to receive things like the hydrogen line,...
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Searching for giga-Jansky fast radio bursts from the Milky Way with a global...
A few days ago a University research paper titled “Searching for giga-Jansky fast radio bursts from the Milky Way with a global array of low-cost radio receivers” was uploaded to the Cornell University...
View ArticleYouTube Videos: NOAA Satellite Tutorial and Building a Radio Telescope
Over on the Thought Emporium YouTube channel the team have uploaded two videos that may be of interest to radio hobbyists. The first video shows a nice overview about receiving NOAA weather satellite...
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Amateur Pulsar Observations with an RTL-SDR
Back in September 2015 we made a posted that discussed how some amateur radio astronomers have been using RTL-SDR’s for detecting pulsars. A pulsar is a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of...
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An Overview of Neutron Star Group Pulsar Detection Projects with the RTL-SDR
Earlier in April we posted about Hannes Fasching (OE5JFL)’s work in detecting pulsars with an RTL-SDR. Thanks to Steve Olney (VK2XV), administrator of the Neutron Star Group for pointing out that there...
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A Screenshot based Meteor Scatter Detector for HDSDR
Over on our forums Andy (M0CYP) has posted about his new meteor scatter detection program which works with HDSDR and any supported SDR like an RTL-SDR. It works in an interesting way, as instead of...
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Detecting Pulsars with a Circularly Polarized Yagi and an RTL-SDR
Steve Olney VK2XV is the creator and administrator of the Neutron Star Group website which collects a listing of confirmed amateur attempts at pulsar detection, many of which have been made with a...
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