If I offered you the secret to the $11 spectrum analyzer & software-defined radio, what would you promise me? Your firstborn? Treasures of gold and diamonds. Well, I'll consider the latter. Here it is ...

When the first USB DTV receivers came out with tuners covering 54–806 MHz, I wondered if any of them could be modified into an inexpensive spectrum analyzer. Thanks to RealTek and some Linux kernel ...

Every machine has its own way of communicating with its operator. Some send status emails, some illuminate, but most of them vibrate and make noise. If it hums happily, that’s usually a good sign, but ...

Two years ago, I wrote about using an inexpensive RTL2832-based DVB/DAB USB dongle as a spectrum analyzer and receiver. (See “Software-Defined Radios Help Explore RF Spectrum,” July 11, 2012). It is ...

New FieldFox C-model offers more than 20 vector network analyzer and spectrum analyzer options for upgrade and download, which are software licensing key enabled Enables engineers to pay only for the ...

A free software upgrade from Signal Hound offers a single graphical user interface to control the SA series of USB-powered spectrum analyzers and the TG series of tracking generators, providing ...

Software-defined radio (SDR) is a very powerful concept. Its technologies provide software implementation of modulation, interference management, and capacity enhancement techniques over a broad ...

Radio seems to be an unofficial theme for The Hackaday Prize, with a few wireless frameworks for microcontrollers and software defined radios making their way into the quarterfinal selection.