HackRF Pro is an update to the HackRF (One) open-source SDR platform first launched by Michael Ossmann from the Great Scott ...

While your home or car radio is designed to tune traditional AM or FM, an SDR dongle that you attach to your computer through your USB port can tune — with the appropriate software — shortwave ...

In the last few months, software defined radio has seen an explosion in popularity thanks to a small USB TV tuner dongle able to receive anything broadcast between 64 and 1700 MHz. It’s a ver… ...

In contrast, the RTL-SDR radio support package enables you to design wireless receivers using real-world signals. The RTL software-defined radio is based on the Realtek 2832RTL integrated circuit.

That technology is Software Defined Radio, or SDR. A idealized radio involves a series of stages. Firstly, an antenna receives the radio signal, converting it into an electrical signal.

Software-defined radio will make it possible to use the electromagnetic spectrum in fundamentally new ways. Most radio standards today are designed to use a fixed, narrow frequency band.

Software defined radio (SDR) has been one of your popular search topics this year on RF DesignLine. Recently I had the opportunity to hear from some people who are very active in this market: Frank ...

He provided me with an RTL-SDR Blog V4 SDR dongle ($39.95, covering 500 kHz to 1.766 GHz), along with a small TV-style collapsible antenna and stand. “Instead of doing all the ‘math’ required to ...