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Receiving ISS Data Comms with the RTL-SDR
YouTube user mutezone has uploaded a video showing some data communication packets from the International Space Station (ISS) being received with the RTL-SDR. To receive the packets he used SDRSharp,...
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Orbcomm Reception with the RTL-SDR
YouTube user Drvarnick has uploaded a video showing how he receives Orbcomm satellite data with the RTL-SDR. To do this he uses a a homemade 1/4 wave antenna, SDR# and the Orbcomm-Plotter software by...
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Video Tutorial: Setting Up Satellite Tracking with SDRSharp and Orbitron
YouTube user HamradioSat has put up a video tutorial showing how to connect SDR# and Orbitron together. By interfacing the two, Orbitron can then be used to automatically tune to the doppler corrected...
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Receiving SO-50 Saudisat 1C with the RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Orlando Lima shows reception of the SO-50 Saudisat 1C satellite. Saudisat is an amateur radio satellite with an FM radio repeater. Orlando listened to the downlink frequency at...
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Receiving the Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 with the RTL-SDR
Blogger gat3way has created a post on his blog showing how he was able to receive the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 with the RTL-SDR and a simple cantenna antenna. The Tiangong-1 station transmits a...
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GNSS-SDRLIB: Real Time GPS Positioning with RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user taroz1461 has posted a video showing an RTL-SDR getting a real time GPS location fix using his GNSS-SDRLIB software package. Taroz1461 used an RTL-SDR modified with a temperature...
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Receiving Signals from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter with an RTL-SDR and...
Gat3way has recently posted on his blog an article showing how he was able to receive a signal from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) using only an RTL-SDR, WiFi grid antenna and a low noise block...
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Listening to Spacewalk Communications from the International Space Station
Over on YouTube user LEGION ELMELENAS has uploaded a video showing his reception of voice communications from a Russian spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS). Legion used a Funcube Dongle...
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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving Meteor-M N2 LRPT Weather Satellite Images with an...
The Meteor-M N2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched on July 8, 2014. Its main missions are weather forecasting, climate change monitoring, sea water monitoring/forecasting...
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Tutorial Video Showing How to Receive Meteor M2 Weather Satellite Images with...
Recently we posted about a tutorial showing how to receive LRPT weather satellite images from the new Russian Meteor M2 satellite. Now over on YouTube user Tom Mladenov has uploaded a tutorial video...
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Receiving Dead Satellites with the RTL-SDR
Recently happysat, a reader of RTL-SDR.com wrote in to let us know about an unusual hobby he has found with the RTL-SDR. Happysat has been using the RTL-SDR together with a QFH antenna to detect old...
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Military SATCOM Satellite Reception with the RTL-SDR
Recently on YouTube user Tom Mladenov has been uploading videos showing reception of Military SATCOM satellites using an RTL-SDR dongle and QFH antenna tuned to 137 MHz. One video shows how sometimes...
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Decoding the Russian Parus (Cosmos) Navigation Satellites with the RTL-SDR
Once again Happysat, who previously wrote in to RTL-SDR.com to let us know how to receive dead satellites with the RTL-SDR has again written in to let us know about his latest achievements. Happysat...
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SatNOGS – Hackaday Prize Winner uses RTL-SDR in Design
The popular Hackaday blog recently announced the winner of their grand competition to win a trip to space or $200k. The goal of the competition was to design and build the best example of “an open,...
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Chaos Communications Congress Talks – Iridium Pager Hacking
A few days ago the Chaos Communications Congress (a technology and hacking focused conference) commenced. Amongst the talks there was one about reverse engineering the Iridium satellite paging system...
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Getting started with amateur satellite reception and the RTL-SDR
Over on the hamspirit.de blog the author Jan has uploaded a post introducing the hobby of amateur satellite reception with the RTL-SDR (in German, use Google Translate). Amateur radio satellites may...
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The SatNOGS Story
In a previous post we talked about the SatNOGS project which aims to provide low cost satellite ground stations (where one critical component is currently an RTL-SDR dongle) along with free networking...
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How to Receive the Funcube Satellite with an RTL-SDR
Over on the Hamspirit.de blog author Jan as written a post explaining how to receive the FUNcube satellite with an RTL-SDR dongle (note in German, use Google translate). The FUNcube is a CubeSat (a low...
View ArticleLinux Command Line based Doppler Correction and Demodulation Tools
Programmer Andres has recently been working on creating a toolset for receiving AX.25 packets (FSK 9600) from satellites with an RTL-SDR or other software defined radio. The AX.25 protocol is commonly...
View ArticleA Faster Method for Decoding Meteor M2 Weather Satellite Images
Over on YouTube user max30max31 aka IZ5RZR has uploaded a video that shows a faster method for decoding Meteor M2 weather satellite images on a Windows system. The Meteor-M N2 is a Russian weather...
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