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Investigating the Transit 5B-5/E-5 Satellite: The oldest satellite still...
Transit 5B-5 is a US Navy navigation satellite that was an early version of the GPS/GNSS system we enjoy today. It was launched in 1964 and has been transmitting continuously for roughly 60 years....
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Saveitforparts: Receiving the Bitcoin Blockchain from the Blockstream...
Over on his YouTube channel 'saveitforparts' has uploaded a new video showing how he was able to download the Bitcoin blockchain via the Blockstream Satellite network. The Blockstream satellite network...
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Saveitforparts: Testing a 3D Printable Satellite Antenna for NOAA, Meteor and...
Over on the saveitforparts channel, Gabe has uploaded a video showing a 3D-printable helicone antenna for receiving weather images from polar-orbiting L-band satellites like NOAA and Meteor. This...
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Saveitforparts: Hacking an Motorized RV Satellite Dish for Tracking LEO...
Over on the saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has uploaded a new video showing how he's hacking an old motorized Wineguard RV satellite dish for tracking low earth orbit satellites, such as the NOAA...
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CCC Conference Talk: Investigating the Iridium Satellite Network
Over the years, we've posted numerous times about the work of “Sec” and “Schneider,” two information security researchers who have been investigating the Iridium satellite phone network using SDRs....
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Saveitforparts Checks out the Discovery Dish
Over on his YouTube channel 'saveitforparts,' Gabe has uploaded a video checking out and reviewing our Discovery Dish product that we successfully crowd-funded on CrowdSupply back in December 2023....
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Saveitforparts: Receiving Military DMSP Satellite Data with a Hacked TV Dish
Over on the saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has uploaded a video showing how he uses a hacked TV satellite dish to receive satellite weather data from Defense Meteoroloogical Satellite Program...
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Saveitforparts: Listening in on Russian Soldiers Hijacking US Military...
Over on the saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has uploaded a video showing how he uses WebSDR streams to show how Russians, including Russian soldiers, are using old US Military satellites for...
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A 3D Printed V-Dipole Guide for the RTL-SDR Blog Dipole Kit
Thank you to Denis for submitting his 3D printable V-dipole guide for our RTL-SDR Blog Dipole Antenna set. The guide holes the dipole at a 120-degree V-shape angle, which is ideal for receiving...
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Saveitforparts: Snooping on the SatGus Selfie Satellite
SatGus is a recently launched cubesat owned by CrunchLabs/Mark Rober, an extremely popular science and engineering YouTuber. The satellite is designed to take selfies of CrunchLabs customers' own...
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IEEE Spectrum Article on Discovery Dish
Electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has recently posted an article about our Discovery Dish product, which was successfully crowd-funded on CrowdSupply and delivered to initial backers early...
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Using our RTL-SDR Blog Dipole as a V-Dipole for Receiving Weather Satellites
With our RTL-SDR Blog dipole antenna set, it is possible to use it in a "V-dipole" configuration to receive polar-orbiting weather satellites such as NOAA and Meteor at 137 MHz. More information on...
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Receiving Elektro-L3 LRIT Weather Satellite Images with an 11-Turn Helix...
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Meti for submitting his blog post showcasing how he successfully received weather satellite images from the geostationary Elektro-L3 satellite. Impressively, Meti...
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