{"id":886,"date":"2012-04-27T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=886"},"modified":"2012-04-27T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:56:11","slug":"886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/27\/886\/","title":{"rendered":"RTL-SDR cheap USB TV dongles become super cheap USRP radios!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right folks. Software radio just became mainstream. Up until last summer you paid \u00a31000+ for a USRP, then came along the \u00a3120 Funcube dongle. Now you can learn all about SDR for \u00a320.<\/p>\n<p>You can now use a \u00a320 USB DVB-TV Stick to receive any frequency from 64-1700MHz at a high bandwidth sample rate of 2.8MS\/s. Required chipset is RTL2832U &#038; Elonics E4000 tuner combo. Known good units are EzCapTV 668 &#038; 666 units, along with a host of similar boards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdr.osmocom.org\/trac\/wiki\/rtl-sdr\">sdr.osmocom.org\/trac\/wiki\/rtl-sdr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What has been successfully tested so far is the reception of FM\/AM radio, TETRA (police, ambulance, fire), GMR (sat phones), GSM (mobile phones), ADS-B (aircraft data) and POCSAG (pagers).<\/p>\n<p>Go and type RTL-SDR into Youtube and you&#8217;ll find loads of great demo videos &#8211; like these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z0hEquzLsWU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z0hEquzLsWU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another good page : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtlsdr.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rtlsdr.com\/\">http:\/\/www.rtlsdr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some useful Windows SDR# software <a href=\"http:\/\/sdrsharp.com\/\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right folks. Software radio just became mainstream. Up until last summer you paid \u00a31000+ for a USRP, then came along the \u00a3120 Funcube dongle. Now you can learn all about SDR for \u00a320. You can now use a \u00a320 USB DVB-TV Stick to receive any frequency from 64-1700MHz at a high bandwidth sample rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,9,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3g","category-dect","category-gps","category-gsm","category-masts","category-tetra","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}