RTL-SDR Radio Scanner
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…