Gqrx with the Red Pitaya

Today it was brought to my attention that gqrx works well with the Red Pitaya board running the SDR transceiver code by Pavel Demin. Indeed, looking through the gr-osmosdr commit logs, I could see support was added in December 2015, just around the same time I was packaging gr-osmosdr.

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Meteor scatter reception with RTL-SDR and Gqrx

Meteor scatter, or meteor burst communications, is a challenging field within amateur radio communication, where the operators use the ionized trails of meteors for reflection of radio waves.

George Smart, M1GEO, has posted a very nice write-up on his website describing the setup that he uses for meteor scatter reception. The setup uses an RTL-SDR dongle with Gqrx as receiver, and WSJT or MSHV for decoding.

Meteor Scatter reception setup by M1GEO. Image credit: M1GEO.
Meteor Scatter reception setup by M1GEO. Image credit: M1GEO.

Check out Meteor Scatter Reception on RTL-SDR.