#rtl-sdr

Skywave Linux v5 is Now on Debian Sid!

Enjoy shortwave radio and overseas broadcasts, no matter where you are. Skywave Linux brings the signals to you. Broadcasting, amateur radio, maritime, and military signals are available at your fingertips.

Skywave Linux is a free and live computing environment you boot from a flash drive on your PC. Start it up, pick a radio server somewhere in the world, and tune in some stations.

Skywave Linux brings you the signals, whether or not you have a big outdoor antenna or can afford an expensive communications receiver. Hundreds and hundreds of volunteer operated radio servers are on the internet, which let you tune the airwaves and pick up broadcasts in excellent locations and on high performance equipment.

If you are into FT-8, PSK-31, JT-65, or other digimodes, you can decode the signals in Skywave Linux. It also has tools for decoding weather satellites, ACARS, and ADS-B signals.

Not only is Skywave Linux a prime system for software defined radio, but also for programming and coding. It has the Neovim editor and support for several programming languages: Python, Lua, Go, and Javascript. It is a great system for Web developers.

Debian Sid is now the base operating system which Skywave Linux builds upon. It is debloated, tuned, and tweaked for speed, so that you get the best possible computing performance. It works nicely on old laptops; it is super fast on a multi core, high spec PC.

For shortwave listening, weather satellite decoding, or airband monitoring, Skywave Linux is the system you want!

３つのアプリケーションをしばらく使ってみましたがSDR++が一番使い易い感じがしました。FMのラジオ放送を聴いた程度ですが。 航空無線、船舶無線、極軌道衛星の電波を受信しているのはわかりましたが、「これがその電波なんだなぁ」ということがわかるだけで、その処理方法が現時点ではよくわからない。 もう少し勉強してから色々試します。

An A330 on short final, just about to flare. You can intercept its voice and data radio signals with a properly set up RTL-SDR! Voice on the VHF-Airband is an easy catch. So is ACARS data, whether in the old signal format or the new VDL Mode 2. Know what is going on. See the book "Airband Radio on the RTL-SDR" for tips, tricks, do's and dont's for using software defined radio to harvest aero signals en masse.

　会社に忘れ物を取りに行く。 　休みなのに会社に行くなんて、なんてことだと思いながら行く。自分のせいだ、仕方がない。

WHELP I don’t know why I expected October to go differently than the rest of this year but I’m still somehow shocked at how much I did NOT get to. My poor Apptober project may not have gotten the love it deserved this year, but sometimes that’s just how the raspberryPi crumbles.

RTL-SDR: Tinkering With Radio Waves

On the upside I did enjoy my brief dive into the research-hole of learning about Software Defined Radio. AdaFruit especially has some excellent resources that are very accessible to beginners:

Getting Started with RTL-SDR and SDR-Sharp and CubicSDR

Build a radio scanner from a RaspberryPi

I don’t know why tuning into radio stations using software is so much fun considering you can get a handheld radio scanner pretty much anywhere... but somehow it is.

And Now: Sleep

So that’s it, a happy little research project for this year’s Littlest Apptober.

Skywave Linux ~ Global Online Listening

Skywave Linux is a 64 bit live system providing installed and configured software for accessing software defined radio servers locally and on the internet. With this operating system, a person may tune shortwave broadcasts, amateur radio, aeronautical, maritime, or other signals received at remote servers around the world.

SDR software is configured for popular devices, such as the RTL-SDR…