A few clips of NZ Police/Fire unencrypted analogue radio from Auckland, New Zealand being received with an EZCap RTL SDR RTL2832 and SDR Sharp. Antenna is a …

If aliens could see our TV, this is how they do it 😛 DVB-T receiver (rtl-sdr with R820T tuner) Channel 7 NTSC: TVN Chile (National TV of Chile)
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18 replies
  1. wemme
    wemme says:

    I’ve just ordered one for $20 with a E4000 tuner but yes they are good at
    changing things. I’ll have to have a look in to the hack. Are you on
    Nzscanners ? or any other forums. cheers

    Reply
  2. whalenz
    whalenz says:

    Seems pretty good reception for Waikato North using a TV antenna… When I
    lived in Huntly, before going digital, I used to get Auck South and Metro
    pretty clear using a discone which I was fairly happy with. just want to
    point out only Auckland, Wellington and CHCH areas are digital/ encrypted.

    Reply
  3. Nick Leijenhorst
    Nick Leijenhorst says:

    dude thats an awesome plugin! I’m just looking through SDR# videos because
    my RTL is arriving tomorrow ;D

    Reply
  4. wemme
    wemme says:

    Hmm… bugger looks like they have gone belly up. use to be nzscanners org
    nz but there is now a wiki at radiowiki org nz which is worth a look.

    Reply
  5. wemme
    wemme says:

    yeah I had a look on trademe but they don’t list the chipsets. I have found
    a truck load in china for cheap which I may look at importing. I have seen
    people make a up converter for the lower frequencies. Cheers.

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  6. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    I got mine from a website called dealextreme, but I’ve heard they’re not
    selling the same stick anymore. I think ebay is the place to buy them these
    days. My stick is the “EZcap USB 2.0 DVB-T/DAB/FM dongle” with the RTL2832U
    and E4000 tuner chip; these chips work the best apparently. The range on
    mine is approximately ~53Mhz – 1.7Ghz with a small gap in the 1.1Ghz region.

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  7. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Hi, do you mean radio hardware? It’s not a hardware radio, it’s a software
    radio from a re-purposed TV Tuner USB dongle. Look up rtl-sdr on google.
    Yeah this is tuned to about 75.3Mhz.

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  8. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Yeah I don’t think you’ll find that tuner on trademe. If you’re importing a
    lot make sure you get a sample first, cos sometimes they send something
    slightly different to what was advertised which may not be compatible with
    rtl-sdr. I’ve been meaning to try make an upconverter one day when I have
    time. Also, I’ve heard of an experimental hack which involves soldering a
    long wire antenna to pin one of the 2832 chip. Then you can get HF 0-30Mhz
    without an upconverter.

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  9. wemme
    wemme says:

    Yeah I know it’s a software defined radio, but wasn’t sure if you were
    using a Diy I/Q mixer or a usb stick etc… Where did you get your stick
    from? and what is the usable frequency range on these sticks? Cheers

    Reply
  10. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Oh, I was using a SDR# plugin called Auto Tuner which automatically tunes
    to a peak in the spectrum. It also has a ‘ignore’ feature which I used on
    the central local oscillator spike to stop the auto tuner always tuning to
    the middle.

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  11. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Good luck, hope they send the right one. The hack is called using the
    “direct sampling mode” if you want to look into it. I only recently got
    into scanning a few months ago when I received my USB stick, so never heard
    of NZScanners, can you PM a link? I can’t seem to find it on Google. The
    only other forum I visit is the Reddit rtlsdr one.

    Reply

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