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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by dogma1138 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:25AM (#17435935)
There is also the hackrf one which is pretty much on the same level as Kiwi if not a bit better you can find it for about the same price but the difference is that the HackRF often goes on sale with a 30-50% discount.

On a tangent number stations is like the number one “secret” I would love to be solved, I’m really curious if these are still used to direct I/Os or of these are just the RF community version of trolling these days.

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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by codezero on Sunday July 01, 2018 @04:44PM (#17437450)
Someone published a pdf of scans they found from an abandoned Russian numbers station. It mostly appears to be filled with procedural notes.

Really wish there was a follow up. https://amp.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/10rkhh/i_have_visited...

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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by zokier on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:24PM (#17436497)
HackRF One seems to have strikingly different architecture compared to KiwiSDR, so I'm not sure if they are really comparable at all.
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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by comboy on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:52PM (#17437218)
They don't seem to be. HackRF is 1MHz - 6GHz and it's a beast (you can go lower with upconverter like Ham It Up). I only just learned about KiwiSDR and I'd love to know for which use cases people would choose it over HackRF. If I understand correctly the setup may be easier, but other than that?
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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by therein on Sunday July 01, 2018 @05:22PM (#17437678)
I'm totally with you. The selling point of KiwiSDR seems to be that it allows everyone to use the same device simultaneously as the entire spectrum that KiwiSDR can capture is available all at once.

https://www.sdr.hu

Here is the top entry: http://sdr.hu/click?id=172

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Re:Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and number... by jdc on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:18PM (#17436467)
How does the LimeSDR stack up here?
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