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MPSRN: An Introduction

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Ryan HughesRadio, Scanning

Since 2015 Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick have been using the ‘Maratime Public Safety Radio Network’. This is a 200+ site P25 Phase 1 trunked system shared between the 3 provinces. Sites are located on Bell Mobility cell towers […]

Reading “Smart Meters” with an RTL-SDR

March 20, 2020March 31, 2020 Ryan HughesRadio, SDR

rtlamr is a program that is capable of reading data from a variety of “smart meters”. It primarily works with Itron electrical, gas, and water meters, but there are other compatible 900 mHz ISM band meters that are supported. A […]