AirspyFairly cheap and quite a polished experience in SDRSharp on Windows, but nowhere close to HackRF functionally. A good option for beginners where ease of use is very important, but loses value quickly once a person developers a solid foundation in SDR
RTL-SDR: Specifically NooElecs varietns of rtl-sdr are probably the best of the cheap, RX only SDRs. Compatible with virtually everything known to humankind. NooElecs adds really stable bias-t and filtering, and their Smartee sticks can tune HF without needing an upconverter
USRP: A clone can be had for about a hundred bucks from ebay. Great for 4g and slower cellular. Extremely well supported in terms of compatibility, especially on linux - though that support is being slowly deprecated (i think YateBTS already dropped native support though it can still be added easily if building from source)
CaribouLite/Radioberry/DRAWS/etc PI hats: These are really fun to play with and are a GREAT way to get a remote network sink set up. I have a few of these sitting in the garage on various PI devices that just pipe 2-10mhz of spectrum to any machine on my lan
Ive looked at the tinySA, the Ultra seam really good, but it does not seam like it will does decoding, i will probably get one down the road when i need a full blown spectrum analyzer.
How is the hackRF as a spectrum analyser?
Im not doing cellular and no plan on it (yet ) its mostly for rf remote and com decoding (and reverse engineering) and transmitting. current project is 100M to 1K target.
I think ill go for portapack as a starter as some basic stand alone function would be nice. and i can tether it to a pc and pipe the results in mathlab if needed.
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Arrived today after customs procedure. The shipping tracking was extremely well organized. I received all the info where the package was at the time. The item itself was realy safely packed. You could drop it from the plane and will arrive unharmed. Realy good and carefull shipping. And is working. Still need to learn about all the functionalities but working out of the box. The shipping was a lot faster than advertised.
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The item is as advertised, with a steel case, all antennas seem to work well. The only thing i noted is that when pressing the reset button, the portapack freezes and the USB must be unplugged and plugged in again in order to make it works
The device arrived in working condition and in the declared configuration. Firmware installed 1.7.4 mayhem.
But the complete USB LG Cable does not want to work with laptop, only works with PC. I will look for an alternative.
Perhaps for my tasks, a regular HackRF would be enough, and not a Portapak. This seller has them too. It would be cheaper, and for the difference in money, it is better to look for an antenna with amplifiers.
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Passed the customs without problems, delivery on time, packed well. Launched immediately out of the box, installed version 1.7.4. I recommend the seller, because Created a community in a cart with all the necessary information.
The Portapack (in my case, the H1) ist a great addition to the hackrf one. After I had damaged two hackrfs, my current setup now uses the version with a modified RF-frontend by Clifford Heath. This now works safely alongside my ham radio gear.
Enter MAYHEM, an evolved fork of the original PortaPack firmware that the developers claim is the most up-to-date and feature packed version available. Without ever plugging into a computer, this firmware allows you to receive, decode, and re-transmit a dizzying number of wireless protocols. From firing off the seating pagers at a local restaurant to creating a fleet of phantom aircraft with spoofed ADS-B transponders, MAYHEM certainly seems like it lives up to the name.
There are many ways that promoting mayhem in a horrifically oppressive regime is not responsible use. For example, where it would have a disproportionate negative impact on people who are not part of the regime.
So far the only reported legitimate uses in these comments are consistent with behaviour that the relevant regime would likely approve of (see comment on testing fire service pagers). So not really a good match for the name MAYHEM.
I agree its encourages the malitious potential but that potential/inspiration is why everyone wants to code like this and the message he sais only provvokes the ambitions into the possiblilites in the readers imagination to get a clear idea of not what your supposed to do but what you can do and anyone smart enough to wantt to learn coding and this already knows and or have decided how diverseley useful electronics are and have already chosen what they want to do weather it be prottecting servers encrypting building programmed phisical useful interesting funny and or cool or people have already decided to be a nuissance but nowone smart enough to want to learn electronics or the possiblilities of it already know that there are bad possiblilities this isnt kidergarten forced perspective snd and ideology brainwashing
I use this product to help find exploits against vehicle security systems and then I form the manufacturers. Less then 10% of what I find do I share because I find so many rolling code vulnerabilities with this tool. We do try to inform manufacturers though. I also teach people how to use this tool to under stand RF and how to make safer products. What do you do to make the world a better place other than judge people. This is a great tool they share for free.
TBH, any scenario with less extreme storylines involving RF attacks could be used. i.e. Bank Heist in which you have to perform or defend against attacks on your get away vehicle to defeat the scenario.
In an alternate, simplified reality with Boolean ethics, the other things you mentioned may not have ethical uses, but in this reality they do. Fighting back against an oppressive and murderous regime is one obvious use.
Lots of legitimate uses. A field engineer needs to transmit a specific signal on command. Load up that signal, go to the site, press the send, tada you have a test signal 100 miles away from an outlet.
Key fobs and garage door openers fail. Maybe you can get a signal 1 out of 50 times, and the retail key fob learning ones need things more reliably, well this will record the one time the old fob worked, and this will transmit reliably.
I am seriously tempted to get it and mostly use it as a garage door remote. Since it is a SDR, I could also use it in the car to just listen to various frequencies. Depending on my mood, I could listen to AM, FM, Ham Radio, Air traffic when by the airport, etc.
Read the original linked article, it includes a list of ethical uses: capturing RF autonomously to study it later, check the resistance of your wireless home appliances to replay attacks or conducting security testing on devices where you have permission to transmit.
I use this to break in to my own cars. I love the idea that by a codes and scripts you can get into things by using the back door. I love my hacker one portapack., I want to thank great scotts and the maker of mayhem yous are awesome
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