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Ok beside Brandon and myself who here is or has used a sdr radio. What do you think about it? The reason why I am asking is I have done a load of reading on it and I am off work for like 3 months and was looking for something to do. I think I have found what I am going to be playing with. When Brandon told me about it I was like it is not for me and let it fall to the wayside. Now I started reading more and more on it I am like a pig in mud. It can do everything I have been wenting to do and more so I am order the stuff tommo. I am looking for other people in the area to bance stuff off of. If you have not hear about it here is a link to get o started. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ I know there are a lot more links out there and this is just so the ones that do not know what I am talking about can read and find out.

Sounds like I am in the same boat as you. it sounds good, but i'm not that technically savvy to proceed from what I have read. Haven;t given up, though, still researching it.

SDR changed my life....literally!!!

After much debating, I decided to get a SDR dongle for ADSB tracking of airplanes. I got it in the mail today, and after a minimum of computer installation, it is working and I am getting transmissions from aircraft a fair distance away with the little whip antenna that came with it. Using rtl1090 program connected to PlanePlotter for the map. Couldn't get SDR# to work, tried this next and it pretty much installed itself including drivers & stuff that you need. Next step, an outdoor antenna.

sp1989 wrote:After much debating, I decided to get a SDR dongle for ADSB tracking of airplanes. I got it in the mail today, and after a minimum of computer installation, it is working and I am getting transmissions from aircraft a fair distance away with the little whip antenna that came with it. Using rtl1090 program connected to PlanePlotter for the map. Couldn't get SDR# to work, tried this next and it pretty much installed itself including drivers & stuff that you need. Next step, an outdoor antenna.

What exactly does SDR stand for? I've never heard of it!

Software defined radio. It's a TV tuner the size of a thumb driver that plugs into a computer USB port. With the right software, you can have a phase II scanner for $20. Experimenting with the digital and scanning next, if all goes well a HF converter too.
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-ra ... h-rtl-sdr/

Yep SDRs are the future of radio in my opinion. Especially when it comes to scanning in the digital age.

I use them exclusively on HF and starting to use them more and more on VHF/UHF stuff. Have a few RTL dongles, HackRF One and recently ordered an AirSpy unit.

There is some amazing stuff being done with SDR and I'm excited to see what the future brings.

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sp1989 wrote:Software defined radio. It's a TV tuner the size of a thumb driver that plugs into a computer USB port. With the right software, you can have a phase II scanner for $20. Experimenting with the digital and scanning next, if all goes well a HF converter too.
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-ra ... h-rtl-sdr/

Holy Grail! So would that work on my BCD396XT?!

No radio involved, the dongle and your computer are the radio/scanner.

sp1989 wrote:No radio involved, the dongle and your computer are the radio/scanner.

So I could hold on and operate like a scanner as long as I have a PC to hook it up to?