One of the best ways to learn about radios is to build your own, even in the age of cheap SDR dongles. [Aniss Oulhaci] demonstrates this with a simple HF SDR receiver built on a breadboard. The rec… ...

This guide provides an overview of how SDR works, what you can do with it, and how to use RTL-SDR on your Android device. We’re not radio experts, so this guide glosses over a lot of the ...

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 ...

With as cheap and versatile as RTL-SDR devices are, it’s a good idea to have a couple of them on hand for some rainy day hacking. In fact, depending on what signals you’re trying to sni… ...

The first software defined radio (SDR) prototype, called Christina, is being funded and produced under a research contract. The radio will serve as a demonstrator for the concepts and technical ...

Software Defined Radio is putting new capabilities into the hands of Ukrainian intelligence, allowing them to find and target Russian military communications.

Software-defined radios, or SDRs, persevere as a lively topic of discussion. An SDR enables a given radio to tune to variable frequencies to meet the specifications of different applications and ...

Just recently I was shopping for a new communications receiver for ham radio and general shortwave listening. Lots of transceivers are available, but I only needed a receiver since I use a home ...

On Mac OS X, the easiest application I’ve found to quickly get up and running with SDR is Elias Önal’s gqrx port for Mac OS X. Download the gqrx_8.dmg file and install it as you would any ...