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Update YARD Stick One Firmware
Today I received my YARD Stick One (Yet Another Radio Dongle) created by Great Scott Gadgets. The dongle can transmit and receive digital wireless signals at frequencies below 1GHz. The YARD Stick One is not a SDR, because the I/Q samples are directly demodulated by the chipset instead of send to the host over USB. The YARD Stick One therefore isn’t compatible with any SDR software, but you can use something called rfcat.
January 17, 2019
Software Defined Radio on Linux
In the quick start guide for Software Defined Radio (SDR) on Linux we will listen to some very common frequencies using a RTL-SDR. SDR is a radio communication system where traditional hardware components are instead implemented in software. Some common low-cost DVB-T USB dongles with the Realtek RTL2832U controller and tuner can be used as a wide-band SDR receiver. Prerequisites Start by installing the required packages for downloading and compiling the rtl-sdr package. The libusb-1.0-0-dev package provides a C library used for accessing USB devices (e.g. the RTL-SDR).
January 6, 2019