HackRF One is a popular SDR transceiver and a really nice piece of hardware. For a reasonable price, you can get fully open hardware to monitor radio signals in a wide range (20MHz – 6GHz, but really up to 7GHz). Boards support external clocking and can be easily customized. I believe there is only one concern about this board is…
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Listening to aircrafts and receiving images from the satellites
In the previous article we discussed how to calculate and build simple Yagi-Uda antenna. Now it’s time to play with this antenna and receive some interesting signals.
144 MHz Yagi-Uda antenna
Yagi–Uda antenna is a directional and pretty effective antenna consisting of multiple parallel elements in a line, usually half-wave dipoles made of metal rods. The Best-known use of this type of antenna is as rooftop terrestrial television antennas, but it is also used for point-to-point fixed communication links and for long-distance shortwave communication by shortwave broadcasting stations and radio amateurs.…