What can you do with SDR dongle?

What can you do with SDR?

• Receive broadcast radio.
• Amateur radio.
• Radio astronomy.
• Track ships via AIS transmissions.
• Track aircraft via Mode S transmissions.
• Set up a DRM transmitter.
• Build a GSM network.
• Experiment with LTE.

How do I configure SpyServer?

Server: Setting up SpyServer on Windows

1. Log on to the Windows PC that you want to be the remote server.
2. Go to www.airspy.com/download and download the latest version zip file of SDR#.
3. Run the install-rtlsdr.
4. In the SDR# folder find the file spyserver.
5. Edit the ‘device_type’ line to show ‘device_type = RTL-SDR’.

What is the range of RTL-SDR?

1 MHz to 6 GHz
It is designed for radio experimenters and it has a very wide band frequency range from 1 MHz to 6 GHz, and a wide bandwidth of up to 20 MHz and an 8-Bit ADC.

What you can do with RTL-SDR?

What are some RTL-SDR Radio Scanner Applications?

• Use as a police radio scanner.
• Listening to EMS/Ambulance/Fire communications.
• Listening to aircraft traffic control conversations.
• Tracking aircraft positions like a radar with ADSB decoding.
• Decoding aircraft ACARS short messages.
• Scanning trunking radio conversations.

What is the use of RTL-SDR?

What is RTL-SDR? RTL-SDR is a very cheap ~$25 USB dongle that can be used as a computer based radio scanner for receiving live radio signals in your area (no internet required). Depending on the particular model it could receive frequencies from 500 kHz up to 1.75 GHz.

What is soapy SDR?

SoapySDR is an open-source generalized C/C++ API and runtime library for interfacing with SDR devices. With SoapySDR, you can instantiate, configure, and stream with an SDR device in a variety of environments. Both osmosdr and uhd devices are available within SoapySDR.

Which RTL-SDR is best?

The Nooelec NESDR Nano 3 is probably the coolest RTL-SDR receiver on the whole list. It is TINY! Like, “where’s the rest of my SDR?!?” tiny. And it comes packed with a 0.5 PPM TCXO for top of the line performance!