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In this post I’ll be giving some background and install steps on RTL-SDR. SDR stands for software defined radio and has been in use since the 1970s. Traditional radio processing is handled by hardware components like oscillators, regulators, and mixers. SDR replaces these functions with digital computer processing. RTL-SDR is a device that was originally designed to receive digital television transmissions, namely DVB-T TV using the RTL2832U chipset. The device is typically contained in a USB dongle. The RTL2832U chipset…

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Dual Tone Multi Frequency signaling, commonly referred to as DTMF, is mainly used for phone dialing systems. But this isn’t the only use for DTMF signaling. Another common use is security access systems. In this post, I’ll be covering how to decode DTMF using MultiMon-NG. SoX will be used to record the DTMF signals generated on cell phones and keyless entry systems. I’ll be using a high gain directional microphone with a secondary microphone to cancel out background noise. SoX…

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In this post I’ll be using two USB microphones to record audio, one for the intended sounds I wanted to record, the other to capture background noise that I want to filter out. I’m using two cheap USB embedded microphones that I bought for less than $10 each, http://a.co/eIsnp3Z. The machine I’m recording on is a Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubnutu Mate. Since the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have an audio in device built in, I selected the USB microphones. These…

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In this post I’ll cover how to remove noise in an audio file using SoX. I’ll be using a Raspberry Pi which does not have an audio input by default. To get audio, I used an simple USB audio microphone to capture audio. The OS I’m running on my Pi is Ubuntu Mate and there was no need for anything to get the microphone to run. Once it was plugged in, I ran this command to view the properties of…

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