Handheld Scanner Is A Radio Multi-tool

These days, it’s attainable to cram a complete lot of radio performance into a really compact system. A great example of that is the LakeShark scanner from [SAMS0N1TE].

The LakeShark relies on the LilyGO T-Display P4—which mixes an ESP32-P4 microcontroller with a 4.1 inch AMOLED touchscreen show. It comes with an onboard SX1262 LoRa radio module in addition to GPS and a nine-axis Inertial Measurement Unit in addition. [SAMS0N1TE] then set it as much as additionally hook as much as an RTL-SDR Blog V3 or V4, offering every kind of additional software-defined radio performance.

It can scan all the things from P25 Phase 1 trunking transmissions, to ADS-B, POCSAG, and even good previous FM broadcast radio. If you wish to pay attention to what’s on the air, or see a minimap with tracks of the planes flying overhead, you are able to do all of it with this rig. You may even examine varied bands with waterfall shows or try to search for exercise from close by nRF24 gadgets.

Ultimately, it’s a little bit of a Swiss Army knife for radio enjoyable—in a position to do every kind of neat issues, and it suits proper in your pocket. We’ve featured another nice SDR hacks not too long ago, too, like this $50 build with an impressive 20 MHz of bandwidth. If you’re cooking up your individual gear for the ham shack and past, tell us on the tipsline.