There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave (SW) radio, or indeed any form of radio broadcast. SDRs ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a three-part series about software defined radios in GPS/GNSS simulators. Part 1: About GPS and various techniques that are used to advance signal ...

If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate many such devices into ...

THE RADIO. It’s been around for more than 100 years. Pioneering work by Guglielmo Marconi and others in the1890s and 1900s resulted in practical wireless telegraphy devices that permitted ...

No audio available for this content. iP-Solutions has added a GNSS receiver to its software-defined-receiver (SDR) front-end family. The new Eagle-2 works with software receivers in real time or ...

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the big thing these days, and why not? A single computer can get rid of a room full of boat anchors, and give you better signal discrimination than all but the best kit ...

Surprise! Shortwave radio as a broadcast medium is holding its own, despite the intrusion of the internet, transmission cutbacks by major broadcasters such as the BBC World Service and Voice of ...

Parts 1 and 2 of this series introduced the parts needed to create a satellite image reception system. In this third and final installment, we delve into the use of the software, carrying out a ...