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Sub-sites are listed in the top-right corner of every page. My latest blog entries, wiki reference articles, photo albums and this site's most popular content are listed in the right column. The most recent site pages are summarised below - click 'Read more' to view the full article. Update Fri, 21/08/2015 - 11:40 — balint Hi again, I've taken the next step in the world of radio, and joined Bastille Networks as the Director of Vulnerability Research . We'll be hacking all the (RF) things, and securing the enterprise from wireless threats (in particular from the Internet of Things). 4 comments Update Sun, 06/07/2014 - 03:05 — balint Thanks for dropping by. I haven't updated this part of the site in a very long time, so I thought I'd post a quick one: In mid-2012 I moved to the U.S. to work at Ettus Research where I could continue experimenting with Software Defined Radio, and am currently the "Applications Specialist and SDR Evangelist". I like to spread the word about SDR. For example: I will be speaking at Black Hat US 14 , I have spoken at DEF CON 21 , Ruxcon 2011 , and the past few GNU Radio Conferences . Some other fun experiences include delivering a week-long SDR lab at the School on TV Whitespaces/SDR Workshop held at the ICTP, Trieste, Italy in early 2014, a talk at an iSec Open Forum evening , and a lecture to EE-123 students at UC Berkeley. For a complete list, check out the Presentations wiki page . Last day of labs at the School on Applications of Open Spectrum and White Spaces Technologies , ICTP, Trieste, Italy. If you would like to get more regular updates, please follow me on Twitter: @spenchdotnet An example of a video I made for work: For more information see the blog post . I'm fortunate enough to be helping out the ISEE-3 Reboot Mission as the 'radio guy' (Communications Engineer), part of the Mission Control team . I oversaw the set up and use of USRPs at the Arecibo Radio Observatory to make first contact with the space probe after 36 years, and now do the same remotely for each of our 'supports'. See the gallery for all pictures. See the Arecibo Uncut playlist for all videos. Presenting the project at Dorkbot SF ( slides / video ). Add new comment Read more Software Defined Radio Sun, 22/05/2011 - 19:42 — balint My Software Defined Radio experiments featured in GQ Australia (April/May) 2012! SDR-powered Aviation Mapper is now LIVE ! Click here to use it. The Aviation Mapper launch video Have a look at my Hi-Def intro video on using SDR on HF that was featured on Slashdot : (The 'cheap SDR' they refer to can be found on my wiki for GNU Radio/Linux and Windows .) The Software Defined Radio (SDR) I currently use is the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) 1 made by Ettus Research (in a custom housing!): I've used it for several of my projects, including an aviation tracking system with a live streaming 3D Google Earth front-end: Demonstration of BorIP network streaming between HDSDR and GNU Radio using USRP 1: Example of HDSDR using USRP: My work Others' work Resources Audio Development For myself Hardware Personal Research RF Software Testing Add new comment Read more Aircraft Tracking with Mode S: Modez & Aviation Mapper Sun, 17/10/2010 - 15:50 — balint Aviation Mapper is LIVE ! Click here to use it. The Aviation Mapper launch video This project is a completely home-grown implementation of an aircraft tracking system using Mode S messages received on a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) from Ettus Research. The system comprises of a software-defined baseband decoder, a GUI front-end and a real-time (smooth) JavaScript-enabled Google Earth feed. For the Mode S/aviation/RF enthusiast: If you are interested in various notes, diagrams and screenshots that are more technical than these series of pages, please check out the dedicated page on my wiki as well. Modez, Aviation Mapper and Software Defined Radio featured in GQ Australia (April/May)! Screenshots from the GUI front-ends: A plane at 514 km, with trails left behind showing flight corridors Looking at an angle at Sydney Airport, with planes landing on overlapping approach trails. ACARS messages shown spatially as coloured dots with message label and content in balloon pop-up. Spatial representation of ACARS message transactions building up over half a day Accumulated flight paths over half a day The Aviation Mapper desktop app My work Development For myself Hardware Personal Research RF 10 comments Read more Australian Geographical RadioFrequency Map Tue, 15/06/2010 - 23:55 — balint RFMap featured in GQ Australia (April/May 2012)! You can also have a listen to this podcast of a radio interview I did on with Ian Woolf on 2SER: " Balint Seeber Mashed Up Radio " UPDATE : I have written an extensive guide with plenty of screenshots explaining how to use the map to the full. The contents of the guide can be found to the left of this text (at the top of this page's left-hand column). Read it if you wish, or dive right in. Alternatively, open two tabs/windows and go through the guide while trying it out live. The Australian Geographical Radio Frequency Map is a site that overlays all registered RF transmitters on top of Google Maps. Generic antenna sites are shown with the red RF icon, while mobile base stations are represented by the carrier that operates from the site (often multiple carriers do, but currently the first is chosen when determining the icon). A mouse-over will give you the site's description, and a click will tell you who broadcasts from there, and at what frequencies. Much more is to come... Although people by-and-large won't be terribly interested in the positions of every antenna in the country, they might be interested in checking how close they are to thei...