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greatscottgadgets / hackrf

hackrf

low cost software radio platform

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What it is

low cost software radio platform

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-07-31 15:04:50 UTC to 2025-03-18 23:00:00 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

2 sources
VLM·Jul 31, 2013
https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Jawbreaker What it really depends on is your modulation method. So say you want to operate legally as a ham radio op on 5760.1 operating CW. Well with a reasonably high gain antenna -15 dBm is OK. COTS MMIC amps and some filters and you'll have a vaguely competitive contest rover. I would imagine QEX/QST and the like will have ham radio band amp designs for a couple bucks soon enough after this thing rolls out. Looking at the cost of a FT-817 and a transverter, I imagine you could save quite a bit of dough using this device... Given $200 I could probably scavenge up some TR relays good for 5 cm and maybe a whole watt or so. Placed in front of a modest rover capable dish this could pretty much kick butt. Plus or minus phase noise, which hasn't been discussed, and frequency stability (I'm guess
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ing no 10 MHz GPSDO input) (edited to add, and I haven't seen a noise figure spec yet either...) On the other hand if you insist on trying to do NTSC ATV ham radio operation around 427.250 you'll find that a smokin +5 dBm on a 6 MHz wide signal will get you perhaps across the room.
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