> Surely we can come up with something more interesting and potentially discovery-orientated, or at least a little more awesome, such as perhaps radio astronomy

> Surely we can come up with something more interesting and potentially discovery-orientated, or at least a little more awesome, such as perhaps radio astronomy or somesuch? There are a many examples of other things that people have come up with. head over to http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ and the "Tutorials" section (under "Featured Articles") includes these: * ADS-B Aircraft Radar * NOAA Weather Satellites * Meteor-M Weather Satellites * P25 Digital Voice Decoding * Trunked Radio Following * TETRA Voice Decoding * ACARS Decoding * DRM Radio Decoding * AIS Ship Tracking * Radio Astronomy * POCSAG Pager Decoding * Decoding Weather Balloons * Analyzing GSM Signals * Measuring Filter Characteristics * Inmarsat STD-C NCS EGC Decoding * Outernet