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The AI decoded his area's trunked radio channels with a signal dongle and public data

The AI used rtl-sdr tools, wrote Python scripts to analyze signals, and built a SQLite database from FCC licensor data to identify and decode trunked voice channels.

How it works

  1. The AI uses radio tools, writes scripts to analyze signals
  2. Builds a database from public licence data to identify and decode the trunked voice channels

Why it’s worth knowing

Signals plus a public database is a full intelligence shop for one room.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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