I've been wanting to experiment with SDR triangulation. There are some off the shelf options, but I think it would be fun to cobble something together using dongles.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/krakensdr

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colanderman 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://khanfar-spectrum-analyzer.web.app/ also has some phase-based direction-finding software and upcoming hardware.

For triangulation though, if you have a reference signal at a known location, TDoA (time difference of arrival) requires less hardware (just a single receiver at each location, e.g. an RTL-SDR). I don't know of any open-source software which does that though I've been slowly building some for my own use (it's pretty janky at the moment).

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advy 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

You could perhaps compare notes with the author of [0] who did manage to achieve multilateration with rtl-sdrs using TDoA.

[0] https://jenda.hrach.eu/

	▲	colanderman 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh wow that's a fantastic resource thank you!

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ortusdux 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I want to experiment with stationary receivers around the perimeter of my property. It would be fun to document and pinpoint every RF source on my land, but I'd settle for being able to reliably find my dog.

	▲	colanderman 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah TDoA might not have the resolution you need for that, unless you are working with very wideband signals. Probably ~100 m resolution is the best you can get from it.

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_whiteCaps_ 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the people in my local radio club did a demonstration of tracking down a commercial operation using amateur radio frequencies with the KrakenSDR. It's very impressive. I think the timing would be much more difficult using off the shelf dongles.