Ham Radio Receiver $30 EBay deal of the daysteemCreated with Sketch.

in ham •  8 years ago  (edited)


The cheapest Ham Radio receiver around plus so much more for 30 Bucks
A great place to start !!!! Turn your Computer into a ham radio.

100KHz-1.7GHz Full band UV HF RTL-SDR USB Tuner Receiver/ R820T+8232 Ham Radio H
EBAY $30 Bucks
Functions

Listening to unencrypted Police/Ambulance/Fire/EMS conversations.
Listening to aircraft traffic control conversations.
Tracking aircraft positions like a radar with ADS-B decoding.
Decoding aircraft ACARS short messages.
Scanning trunking radio conversations.
Decoding unencrypted digital voice transmissions.
Tracking maritime boat positions like a radar with AIS decoding.
Decoding POCSAG/FLEX pager traffic.
Scanning for cordless phones and baby monitors.
Tracking and receiving meteorological agency launched weather balloon data.
Tracking your own self launched high altitude balloon for payload recovery.
Receiving wireless temperature sensors and wireless power meter sensors.
Listening to VHF amateur radio.
Decoding ham radio APRS packets.
Watching analogue broadcast TV.
Sniffing GSM signals.
Using rtl-sdr on your Android device as a portable radio scanner.
Receiving GPS signals and decoding them.
Using rtl-sdr as a spectrum analyzer.
Receiving NOAA weather satellite images.
Listening to satellites and the ISS.
Listening to unencrypted military communications.
Radio astronomy.
Monitoring meteor scatter.
Listening to FM radio, and decoding RDS information.
Listening to DAB broadcast radio.
Use rtl-sdr as a panadapter for your traditional hardware radio.
Decoding taxi mobile data terminal signals.
Use rtl-sdr as a true random number generator.
Listening to amateur radio hams on SSB with LSB/USB modulation.
Decoding digital amateur radio ham communications such as CW/PSK/RTTY/SSTV.
Receiving HF weatherfax.
Receiving digital radio monodiale shortwave radio (DRM).
Listening to international shortwave radio.
Looking for RADAR signals like over the horizon (OTH) radar, and HAARP signals.
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now can this TX or only listen?

just receive no TX
Ordered one yesterday when it comes in I will do review .

I need to get my damn license. I have a couple of little bao feng hand helds but I should acquire a real base station and get it into an emp-proof container.

ya the Baofrngs are nice but for a few more bucks I got this
$86 and its a Tri band

That't pretty sweet. Do you know anything about packet radio? Would 9600baud be enough to run a node for crypto?

lol not thinking that would be fast enough .. also got 2 2tb usb sticks of ebay 9 bucks each including shipping ... some great deals lol got a little carried awat also got 50 feet of led lighting for the boat ''''

gimme the link to those USB sticks.

thanks

https://steemit.com/ham/@thelifeofbrian/ham-radio-practice-exam
go try the practice exam for ham ...posted it the other day