Duncan Wither

SDR / Radio Stuff

So I bought a [RTL SDR] dongle.

Link to quickstart to RTL SDR on linux

Install issues

Ensure you’re install line states:

cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON -DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON

Otherwise it doesn’t work.

Another thing which may help is making the user part of the plugdev group.

sudo usermod -a -G plugdev

Software

SDR ++ made it very easy to get going with it.

NOAA Sattelites

To listen to the weather sattelites track them on in the sky (maybe re-set the date). Also see Gpredict for predictions.

NOAA 19 and NOAA 19 (and others?) brudcast on ~137.5MHz (link) there are:

• NOAA 15
  • the 137.6 MHz link is dead according to wikipedia and only the 1702MHz link is availible.
• NOAA 18
  • 137.9 MHz for image transmission (ty wiki)
• NOAA 19
  • 137.1 MHzs mentioned, it

See also Les Hamiltons site for frequencies.

See this instucatibles artice for some software tips.