Archive for category: Software Defined Radio

An antenna for receiving ADS-B…and velocity factor of RG-6

July 29, 2014 | Amateur Radio, Software Defined Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Allright, last night’s experimentation with the RTL-SDR dongle on my Raspberry Pi Model B+ was pretty successful. Incidently, I forgot to mention that this worked fine with the dongle plugged directly into the Pi, I didn’t need a powered hub. That’s pretty cool. Previously, I had experimented with decoding ADS-B signals from airlines. I thought […]

RTL-SDR on Raspberry Pi…

July 28, 2014 | Raspberry Pi, Software Defined Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Just a quick note. I have been meaning to try out the combination of the Raspberry Pi with one of the popular $20 RTL-SDR dongles, to see if the combination would work. I was wondering how well it would work, how hard it would be, how much of the available (small) CPU power it would […]