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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by mortenjorck on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:21PM (#29527116)
> It comes with the side effect of being a decent SDR for tuning into all sorts of things not just your local TV stations :-)

USB broadcast tuners can be repurposed as software-defined radios? That sounds like a few Amazon and GitHub links I’d be very curious to see!

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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by jasonjayr on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:01AM (#29527291)
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 <-- is relatively affordable

But most of the cheap ones ($20 and less) are just DTV receivers that happen to be able to provide a signal that SDR tools can utilize.

More information about this: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/

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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St... by jerry_tk on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:01AM (#29527292)
I think https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ would be a good place to start learning about SDR USB sticks. But beware -'this rabbit hole goes deep!
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