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If you do not have one, get yourself an RTL-SDR today. This is a cheap ($10) way into radio and you will be impressed with what you can do.

From radio scanning to public safety radio to airplane tracking all with free software!


Agreed. While I love the analog scales on old radios and the glowing light behind the dials, SDR is so fun, portable and cheap to play with. After wetting the toes with repurposed cheap TV dongles, I'd suggest to get a dongle from rtl-sdr.com (satisfied customer, no affiliation whasoever). I have two of their dongles and while they're priced almost in the same league of the TV ones ($20 dongle alone, or $25 with 2 antennas) the performance wrt sensitivity and noise floor is remarkably better. Next purchase then will be a upconverter to get the interesting stuff aired in the HF bands. There are ways to convert dongles into direct sampling receivers for these bands; I can't report on their workings as I never tried them but without any filtering on the input I believe the performance won't be that good, at least compared to a full blown converter with filtering at the front end stage.


I use Dump 1090 on my Pi to catch ADSB signals, but I've yet to figure out radio with my sdr.

https://github.com/antirez/dump1090


Ok, I ordered one of these based on your comment. Looking forward with a new toy to play with when it arrives.


thank you for clarifying that you were not connected to the abuses of the unroll.me platform.

My anger is directed at the responsible parties, and I apologize if I have offended you.

If what you worked hard to build was twisted and abused by others then that is truly a painful thing.

may you find peace


You may want to edit your original comment.


Please edit your original comment. Particularly, remove the blame on her and the calling her "scum"


Unroll.me: You stole peoples mail spools and sold them to the opposition. Selling peoples lyft receipts to Uber -- you should be ashamed of yourself and the legacy of violation that you left in your wake. To me -- this is one of the worst abuses of peoples trust that they granted to you. You are scum.

I have no sympathy for any of your antics or tales.


for those who are not aware of what 3uh is posting: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/stop-using-unroll-me-rig...

yeah, lady, you're pretty low on the ethics totem pole right now. Not too surprised honestly from somebody who used to be a headhunter/recruiter.


Thanks for bringing this up. Too often, Valley gossip, masquerading as news, is merely which people are friendly with reporters/bloggers and the resulting pieces are usually lazy journalism and one-sided.


I commented on this below...


My bet is it is a compromised client certificate from a doctor or hospital.

The authorities will query the audit logs to determine who accessed the journalists record and revoke the cert.

The log will show the other leaked records, which the authorities will report to the victims.

The investigation into how those records were leaked will land several people in jail, as it is easily traceable to the credential.

Bad idea, darknet vendor! Selling data this traceable is sure to get you v&


You are implying that they have such logs. I'm fairly sure you will find they do not.


Make today the day you delete you facebook account. Do it! Opt-out of this panopticon as best you can.

Block as many ads as you can, in order the starve the best.


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