GPS experimenter and blog author e.p. has recently been posting about his experiments in which he uses an RTL-SDR dongle to receive GPS satellite signals and acquire a position lock.
To receive GPS e.p. uses one of our RTL-SDR blog units (back in stock soon!) with the bias tee enabled which is used to power a cheap 5V active GPS antenna. For software he uses GNSS-SDRLIB and RTKLIB which runs on Windows. Using the RTL-SDR, GPS antenna and the decoding software he was able to get his current position to within about 5 meters of accuracy…..READ MORE
Guizhou National Astronomical Located in the mountains of Guizhou National Astronomical Observatories, it is being built 500 meters in diameter spheri... Read more
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The Netherlands State Gazette for March 28, 2017 announced that on April 1 Dutch radio amateurs will have the new 5 MHz band agreed at WRC-15 T... Read more
Finally! Morse code training that enables enjoyable QSOs without pencil and paper. You will truly enjoy CW operation once you’re not dependent on writ... Read more
Details of the new Expert Sun MB1 SDR Transceiver. It covers 160m to 2m and delivers 125W on the HF bands and 60W on 2m. This radio is available from... Read more
A new and exciting operating event will kick off on January 1, 2018, at 0000 UTC (New Year’s Eve in US time zones), when the ARRL International Grid C... Read more
Mircules HAM QuickLog is great new HAM radio logging software for the iPad, for quick and easy HAM Logging. This handy app helps you to quickly... Read more
By Katrina Pascual, Tech Times While they make for stunning images, solar flares could also disturb the atmospheric layer where GPS and communi... Read more
John Langridge, KB5NJD/WG2XIQ, reports that “extremely rare polar openings” have been occurring the past three nights on 630 meters between a number o... Read more
Photo:W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q (left), and ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, pack Ham Aid gear for shipment in advanc... Read more
New QST Magazine is available on ARRl.org Read more
Climbing to the top of a 1700 foot tall tower to change a light bulb Read more
“I had to figure a way to combine my moto addiction with my penchant for amateur radio and spend some quality time under a tree, o... Read more
The DP0GVN WSPR now is in operation from the German Neumayer III Research Station of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The i... Read more
Abrolhos Island – ZY6V Abrolhos Island, IOTA SA – 019, 14 – 19 November 2018. Team: PY6HD, PY6RT, PY6AWU, PY6BA, PY1AX and PS8NF... Read more
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