HF Airplane Tracking HFDL with MultiPSK & HFDisplay

Using SDR# with the RTL-SDR, but the MultiPSK RTLSDR Key setting will allow you to connect directly. I haven’t found yet how to set the Ham-It-Up converter offset in MultiPSK RTLSDR config, but the results should be similar.

http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm
http://www.rstools.info/index.html
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/HFDL

Receiving Spanish DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) radio, transmitted from Noblejas, Spain. DRM is digital shortwave radio.

Received from Auckland, New Zealand. Using the nooelec “Ham It Up v1.0” upconverter circuit, an R820T RTL2832 RTL SDR tv dongle with a random wire antenna about 15m long.

Used SDR Sharp as the software radio and DREAM as the DRM decoder.

RTL SDR is a low cost software defined radio. The RTL SDR dongle can be purchased from http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009U7WZCA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009U7WZCA&linkCode=as2&tag=youtube0ae9-20&linkId=RR5VUVIXLMIB43M

And the Ham It Up upconverter can be purchased from http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LQT3G6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B009LQT3G6&linkCode=as2&tag=youtube0ae9-20

RTL SDR playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8C67BE3D4BDBB5FA

Receiving DRM with RTL-SDR Tutorial: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tutorial-drm-radio-using-rtl-sdr/

10 replies
  1. AndreiN
    AndreiN says:

    please ,can you explain in details how to use DRM decoder? I’m using the
    same R820T RTL2832 RTL SDR tv dongle and software, but I don’t know how to
    combine those 2 programs…SDR and DRM

    Reply
  2. proct0r
    proct0r says:

    It looks like you could really use a AM BC high pass filter. All of those
    carrier lines appear to be imaging from AM broadcast.

    Reply
  3. albertosapiens1
    albertosapiens1 says:

    I am unabe to find a male mcx to male SMA adapter. Which connector or
    adapter did you used to connect the dongle to the upconverter? The dongle
    has MCX isn’t it?

    Reply
  4. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Hi, first I assume you have an upconverter, so you can tune to the HF
    bands. Then you’ll need to obtain a full copy of a program called “virtual
    audio cable”. Next, in SDR# tune to a strong DRM signal, and set the audio
    out in SDR# to use the virtual audio cable. Finally, in DREAM you can then
    go to Settings->Sound Card->Signal Input and choose virtual audio cable as
    the device. Once that is done, play with the volume sliders until you get
    good decoding.

    Reply
  5. Javier Fernandez
    Javier Fernandez says:

    Thanks! I was looking for a way of using DREAM with SDR# and my HF
    upconverter RTL-SDR dongle. I tried everything but USB with your filter
    settings. Javier

    Reply
  6. Superphish
    Superphish says:

    Thanks for the advice. There are definitely some DRM signals which I am
    unable to decode because of AM carrier imaging. Maybe another solution
    might be to use a tuned magnetic loop antenna?

    Reply
  7. Adam Ebel
    Adam Ebel says:

    Why is that when I use SDR Sharp, and the Dream software, it does not
    decode even when I use a DRM 30 wav file to sound card from the Spark? I
    think am missing something and that is a 455 kHz to 12 kHz down converter.

    Reply
  8. Adam Overman
    Adam Overman says:

    I live pretty close to a small airport. It would be cool to use this as an
    early warning to watch planes coming in.

    Reply

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