The Cheapest Radio Receiver For Beginners / RTLSDR v4

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RTLSDR is a small cheap USB radio receiver. You can use it to see, listen to and decode radio signals, for instance those sent from your Flipper Zero or HackRF Portapack or other radio transmitting devices, such as aeroplanes, handhelds, marine, military, shortwave radio, number stations and much more. Here is a quick introduction for the beginners into SDR. Get an RTLSDR here: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ Software mentioned in the video: SDR Console: https://www.sdr-radio.com/console SDR++: https://www.sdrpp.org/ SDR#: https://airspy.com/download/ HDSDR: https://www.hdsdr.de/ SDR Angel: https://www.sdrangel.org/ OpenWebRX+: https://luarvique.github.io/ppa/ dump1090: https://github.com/gvanem/Dump1090 rtl_433: https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 0:00 Introduction 0:46 The history behind RTLSDR 1:53 What is an SDR receiver? 3:10 General Purpose SDR Software 3:54 What is radio? 5:30 What is HF? 6:57 Ham Radio 7:13 Choosing the correct modulation 8:43 SDR angel 9:43 Other decoding software 10:13 Audio piping 10:47 OpenWebRX+ and Raspberry Pi 11:23 Tip 1: Use the appropriate antenna 12:02 Tip 2: Be mindful of noisy environments 12:33 Tip 3: Be careful with transmitters 12:53 Tip 4: Be mindful of the gain setting 13:19 Tip 5: Be mindful of antenna polarisation 13:47 Outro