Software Defined Radio Part 2 - Decoding Digital Transmissions with an RTL-SDR USB Radio

Buy one on Amazon: http://lon.tv/f16t3 (compensated affiliate link) - I am continuing my exploration with software defined radio and the RTL-SDR dongle. In this video we're going to take a look at digital signals and how to decode them!

Links:
VBCable: https://vb-audio.com/Cable/
DMR / DSD Plus: https://www.dsdplus.com/
QTMM for Packet Radio: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmm/
POCSAG Decoder: https://www.discriminator.nl/pdw/index-en.html
L-Band Antenna: http://lon.tv/f9cz (compensated affiliate link)
Jaero Software: https://jontio.zapto.org/hda1/jaero.html
FT8 APP : https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
JS8 app: http://js8call.com/
RTL-SDR Blog ( a great resource): http://rtl-sdr.org
Shortwave antenna: http://lon.tv/b1mqv (compensated affiliate link)

HamTestOnline: http://hamtestonline.com
ARRL: http://arrl.org

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Identifying Digital Signals
03:09 - VBCable virtual audio cable software
05:48 - DMR
08:41 - Packet Radio
11:29 - POCSAG - Pager Transmissions
13:39 - L-Band Satellite Transmissions
16:00 - FT8 - Weak Signal Messages
18:15 - HF Frequency Mode Change
19:10 - JS8 / JS8 Call
19:56 - Finding Weak Signal Transmissions
21:25 - Using a WebSDR instead

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