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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Introduction to Software Defined Radios and RF Hacki
 ng\n   When: Thursday\, Aug 11\, 14:00 - 17:59 PDT\n   Where: Harrah's - E
 lko (Workshops) - [1]Map\n\n   SpeakerBio:Rich \, Research Scientist\n   R
 ich currently works as a research scientist focusing on radio\n   communic
 ations and digital signals processing applications. Before\n   making the 
 jump to research\, he was a RF engineer and embedded\n   software develope
 r working on prototype radio systems and DSP tools.\n   He is passionate a
 bout radios and wireless technology and will happily\n   talk for hours on
  the subject.\n\n   Description:\n   This class is a beginner's introducti
 on to practical Software Defined\n   Radio (SDR) applications and developm
 ent with an emphasis on hands-on\n   learning. If you have ever been curio
 us about the invisible world of\n   radio waves and signals all around you
 \, but didn’t know where to\n   begin\, then this workshop is for you. S
 tudents can expect to learn\n   about basic RF theory and SDR architecture
  before moving on to\n   hands-on development with real radios. The instru
 ctor will guide\n   students through progressively more complicated RF con
 cepts and\n   waveforms\, culminating in a small capstone exercise. For th
 is\n   workshop\, you must provide your own laptop and SDR. You can either
 \n   purchase a RTL-SDR dongle kit which includes an antenna\, small tripo
 d\,\n   and a receive-only USB SDR for this class beforehand and bring it 
 to\n   the conference\, or use a commercial SDR you already own. VMs will 
 be\n   made available to students to download before class\, along with an
  OS\n   setup guide for those that prefer a bare-metal install. The VM/OS 
 will\n   have all the required drivers and frameworks to interface with th
 e\n   radio hardware. My intent for this class is to lower the barrier of\
 n   entry associated with RF topics\, and for that reason I would like to\
 n   emphasize that the workshop is geared toward complete beginner\n   stu
 dents with no prior experience working with SDRs\; DEF CON attendees\n   w
 ho already have experience with SDRs will likely find this course too\n   
 simple.\n\n   Materials\n         Students will need to come with the foll
 owing: A laptop capable\n         of running an Ubuntu VM (or an install o
 f Ubuntu). The VM/OS\n         installation guide will be given out before
  Defcon. Digital\n         Signals Processing is typically very computatio
 nally intensive\,\n         so I recommend a laptop with a 4 core processo
 r and 8GB of RAM.\n\n   A Software Defined Radio\, as this workshop is bri
 ng-your-own-device. I\n   highly recommend a RTL2832 chip based kit that c
 omes with a\n   USB-powered SDR and an antenna mount. Two brands to consid
 er are\n   RTL-SDR and Nooelec. They are essentially the same\, and I woul
 d pick\n   whatever SDR is in stock at the time. Make sure to pick the kit
  that\n   comes with the antenna accessories and not just the USB dongle. 
 It\n   should be between $40 to $50 USD: [2]https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rt
 l-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/\n   [3]https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-receiver
 s/nesdr-smart.html\n\n   If you already own a SDR (like a HackRF or one of
  the RTL-chip\n   dongles) you can also use that. Just make sure to bring/
 buy an\n   antenna.\n\n   Due to supply-chain issues\, if you need to purc
 hase a SDR for this\n   workshop I highly recommend doing so ASAP.\n\n   P
 rereq\n         None\, this is a workshop for complete beginners\, althoug
 h having\n         some basic python knowledge would be a plus\n\n   '\n\n
    1. https://defcon.outel.org/consolidated_page.html#Harrahs\n   2. https
 ://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/\n   3. https://www.nooelec.c
 om/store/sdr/sdr-receivers/nesdr-smart.html\n\n\n
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LOCATION:WS - Harrah's - Elko (Workshops)
SUMMARY:Introduction to Software Defined Radios and RF Hacking
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