RTL-SDR: The COOLEST USB Dongle (Software Defined Radio)

Try to use AGC, as I saw, you overdriven it by setting the gain manually. I think AGC is a lot better than always getting it wrong ith the manual control.

Don`t Use SDRSharp, Use SDRPLUSPLUS, Thats Much Better Then SDRSharp In My View, More Detailed, You Can Adjust Much More Things

Let me Tell You One Thing, YOU DON`T DISCOVER RADIO WORL,D AND SDR, IT DISCOVERS YOU AND LET ME TELL YOU. IT WILL TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE !!!

My parents bought me a radio as a child and i loved everything about it and eventually moved up to the CB radio,that was the 1980’s. Now it’s the end of 2023 and I’m getting back into it after buying myself a small SDR portable radio and now this RTL-SDR to set up at home on a virtually new laptop that’s just not used by the person i bought it for

Good video, maybe mention the spectrums it can listen to. There are limits. The music playing over your voice is probably not necessary in this type of video.
You may have heard of UFOs, I figure that they have a standing EM wave on the hull so the typical 10-15meter scout craft saucer might well have a primary tone around 20Mhz and with the power levels they run it could be loud and detectable for hundreds of km. Try to look for a main tone between 5 and 40MHz that's not audio, video or digital and it should have complex upper harmonics because they have to match the 3D mass distribution near them. If my speculations about how the physics works is correct which of course it is :)
It might well be possible to tell from the radio signal the exact size of the craft and even eventually recognize the different designs and modes of operation.

You just introduced Software Defined Radio to around ten-thousand viewers. Good job! Please, keep doing what you're doing...🇺🇸 👍☕

I like handheld ham radios to listen 😂 I don't have any interest to get the licence so sdr is a gamechanger for me my first sdr radio was rtl sdr v4

Great video, very helpful and entertaining. You deserve a lot more subscribers. I am going to have a look at some of you other videos.

Someone discovered the world of SDR 😁 You will have a lot of fun with it😉
Not a pro myself, but some tips: If you can, get your antennas outside. That's always the best option. Build or buy a 2m groundplane antenna. You can transmit on it and they are great for listening to FM Broadcast, aircraft voice, ISS, NOAA weather satellites, 2m ham band, maybe there is something on 4m in your region. And a 1/4 wave 2m antenna is also a 3/4 wave 70cm antenna, so there is even more to receive with this one antenna. To improve reception, filters and maybe an amplifier can help. I still haven't tried decoding weather satellites myself. I like the idea of having a camera in space and getting the pictures directly from it.
For shortwave, get a magnetic loop antenna like the MLA 30+ or YouLoop for example. Fldigi might be an interesting program for you to decode some stuff. But there might also be more modern software, not sure, it works for me.

And just as I'm finished writing, the ISS is nearby. Listening to the repeater right now 🙂

Best investment for the price is the RSP1A from SDRPlay(even though they are horrible developers) and an MLA-30+ antenna for up to 30MHz and a cheap little real discone for above 30MHZ...

This things been out for years. And no this is not the "coolest"

Hi! Really interesting videos, you're very impressive with how much you know at a young age. Keep it up!😀 I'm curious how old you are and are you thinking about ever making a discord server by chance?

RTLSDR is the gateway to amateur radio, I encourage you to look into the hobby more, a big part of it is SDR!

If you haven't already tried, you can receive APT and LRPT weather images from satellites at 137MHz with that dipole.

IF you tune to the band from 7.0 Mhz to 7.3 Mhz you will hear cw in the lower section and lsb (lower side band) in the upper section. If you tune to 14.9 to 14.350, you will again hear cw and other digital signals in the lower section and usb (Upper side band) in the upper section. The difference is by convention only. It has to do (partially) with some of the limitations of very old radios that are no longer used. These are the 40 and 20 meter ham bands which will be have signals more often than the others. 40 is open around the clock, mostly, while 20 is daylight hours only unless you have more sophisticated receivers and antenna systems.

When I try the AM, my Sampling Mode is disabled, so I cannot change it to Quadrature sampling..

Hey, just wanted to give you some feedback on your channel! I found it because of your video on the TV transmitter you built and I find your videos really interesting (speaking as someone who loves retro tech). Thank you for the awesome work!

Hahaha he said plug in your dongle.

Thank you for introducing me to these. Your video popped up on my feed. Might have to buy one!

This is awesome. Best video of its kind that I've seen as a beginner's tour through SDR radio. It's great that these devices are so inexpensive. Hopefully there's decent software for Mac as well.

I actually thought of getting a SDR, despite living in the city, I want to be able to read signals and create a radio telescope

There seems to be a bit of a resurgence in shortwave lately. The Internet has displaced radio, but there's something fascinating about tapping into all of the various signals floating invisible around us.

Welcome to the hobby! Please do try putting out a long wire antenna and listening to some shortwave and ham broadcasts. You'll discover a whole new world out there.

Thanks for the great video, I've looked into this SDR a little time ago but never got around to buy it. so, if I ever do this video will be a great guide. If your more interested in radio tech you should consider buying some secondhand ham or CB radios at a swap meet.

Is there any way to make an SDR receiver like this with the raspberry pi without the RTL-SDR just by putting a wire on the GPIOs pins like you did on the fm transmitter with the raspberry pi?

Hey Simon, I am trying to make the analog transmitter you featured in a other video. Am not finished yet but I just wanted to say thank you for the tutorial, very cool!

That looks cool ngl, for real u could basically hunt for some stations in AM (only in Canada) but It’s pretty nice to listen a bunch of radio frequencies in your computer.

Edit:OMG I REALIZED IM SECOND!1!

That's it! I NEED to purchase this now!

btw im first please pin me