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Linder, Martin

 
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You bought an RTL-SDR dongle for twenty dollars and now what?


Most SDR guides either bury you in Fourier transforms or hand you a click-here recipe that falls apart the moment your signal doesn't look like the screenshot. Neither one leaves you able to actually troubleshoot your own setup. The SDR 2.0 Handbook takes a different approach: it builds you up from what a radio wave physically is, through the math of sampling and the frequency domain, to the hands-on skill of pulling a clean signal out of real hardware — so you understand why every step works, not just what button to press.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
  • Understand radio wave propagation, modulation, and the electromagnetic spectrum from first principles
  • Choose your first SDR — RTL-SDR, HackRF One, PlutoSDR, and beyond — and know exactly what each is good for
  • Set up and troubleshoot your receive chain, from antenna to decoded output
  • Track aircraft, decode weather satellite imagery, and follow trunked public-safety and amateur radio traffic
  • Work with GNU Radio to move from pre-built flowgraphs to your own custom signal-processing blocks
  • Understand what's legal to receive, what encryption means for what you can and can't decode, and how to operate ethically as you go
Written across thirty chapters that move from foundational physics through six practical parts of real-world reception, this is the book for readers who want to actually understand their equipment — not just copy commands until something works.
The spectrum keeps transmitting whether or not anyone's listening.

Pick up the SDR 2.0 Handbook and start tuning in

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