{"id":11972,"date":"2015-01-16T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2015-01-16T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:58:34","slug":"excellent-website-dedicated-to-the-rtl-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/excellent-website-dedicated-to-the-rtl-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent website dedicated to the RTL-SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RTL-SDR\"<\/a>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Mike, writes:<\/p>\n

Check this website – not only does it cover RTL dongles, but others as well as Airspy…<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks, Mike. The depth of RTL-SDR.com<\/a> is most impressive. They seem to post near daily updates on their blog.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s time I jump into the RTL-SDR craze and get an upconverter as well to work HF. I’ve hesitated making this modest investment in the past because I have other top-shelf SDRs. A dongle, however, would certainly prove to be ultra-portable; especially for one bag travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Mike, writes: Check this website – not only does it cover RTL dongles, but others as well as Airspy… http:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/ Many thanks, Mike. The depth of RTL-SDR.com is most impressive. They seem to post near daily updates on their blog. Perhaps it’s time I jump into the RTL-SDR craze and get an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,158],"tags":[2021,2858,2942,157,4087],"class_list":["post-11972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software-defined-radio","tag-cheap-software-defined-radios","tag-rtl-sdr","tag-rtl-sdr-dongle","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-376","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12823,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/roundup-of-software-defined-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":11972,"position":0},"title":"Roundup of software defined radios","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Many thanks to several readers (including Mike and Greg) who have shared a link to RTL-SDR.com's Roundup of Software Defined Receivers. 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