DRAGON OS FOCAL - The Software Defined Radio Toolbox 

This video is like Christmas Day for those of us who are generally new to SDR. Thanks for the excellent work!

Absolutely love the video. Thank you for taking the time to put it together. I’ll have to share this all over, pretty sure you’ve described DragonOS better then I have myself, ha! I could honestly sit and listen to you describe and use each and every application. Have an awesome day, Tech Minds.

DragonOS is great, it's a real achievement to do as one person. If a community could grow up around packaging the applications then it could easily become the first port of call for an OS for radio hobbyists.

There is just so much of this hobby to explore, its amazing there are all these signals out there.

The person spearheading this is just absolutely brilliant, also I love his YT channel

DragonOS is awesome! Just installing a couple of these applications in Linux can take up a weekend. It's great to have all of this so easily accessible. Hats off to Cemaexecuter for all of his work. And thanks for this video! He also has a Raspberry Pi version, perhaps you could do a video on that one day as well.

a week ago youtube got me into linux and now i got so much to learn

I thought I made a comment, anyway thanks for the information been wanting to use SDR + for a long time downloaded Dragon OS focal and SDR + works perfect with my NESDR SMART dongle got all local and ham stations out the box thanks and I will experiment.

Wow!! Thank you I will check DragonOS

Brilliant ! Got to try this :)

Great video I use linux daily nice to see a radio packed linux os 😀👍nice one

Fantastic! I installed VMWare workstation player and installed DragonOS on a VM in just minutes. It took longer to download it than it did to get it running. The VM even had internet access right out of the box. My RTL-SDR was recognized no problem.

Oh, I did not know about this Distribution. I already installed everything on my Xubuntu 21.10. Did you integrate some repositories for your Dragon. It seems this distribution is very well appointed. Thanks for this amazing work.

Thank you for your videos. They provide a great wealth of information.

Now I got a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 Gigs, with Dragon Os installed, and it's works well with this Operation System,

installing now! thanks!

You made this easy to understand

Great video…thanks.

I love the open source community

Excellent work

A word about VmWare. Processing power doesnt really make that much difference, its available cores. But you will need enough RAM(Memory) to ensure enough is available for both the host OS, in this case Windows 10 and the guest Dragon OS. hope that helps someone down the line :) Thanks Matt :) Informative as always, accompanied by excellent audio.

Awesome 😎 now we are cooking on gas! More please 🙏🏻

good video. is there any configuration required to get SDR + to work with my RTL dongle? I dont see it listed, when I run the application.

hi techminds i use an hackrf one with sdrangel sdr++ and sdr sharp im happy with the results i made with ads b decoding aswell capturing different coded transmissions like pocsag and so on i love to play around with my sdr setup also i recieved a test transmission a few days ago originated from saq grimeton located in sweden it whas a morse code transmission i waiting a long time to recieve also tpms signals all over the place here where i am by the way it whas your video about the hackrf one to bring me to the point to buy one on my own xD

Would you give a review, or comparison to another similar distro: pisdr-os ? I'm currently using that distro.

thank you very mach very good information for my thank you

Ooh a new os to add to my ventoy usb.

Hello i have a question. I have a URAN-1 kit. Would I Benefit able to run this as a gsm base station?

Tried it using the same way with VMware but had some bad audio latency issues did you have any problems like that. Using a RSPdx also.

IMSI Catcher, naughty naughty. SS7 is still broken.

Thanks so much for this! I've been trying to install and configure a lot of these tools individually for a while now. Unfortunately, I'm limited on knowledge and time so this will prove a fantastic resource. I was trying and failing with Dump1090 - how does it compare with the SDRAngel you mentioned? Thanks again.

Thanks man!!!

Thank you I be switching over to dragon

the way u build/usr/src is now working for me sir

how did you get the hackrfone to work with SDRAngel? do you need to install packages for the Hackrfone to be reconnized in SDRangle?

Techminds can i ask what setup you use for audio on the youtube vids. Im asking for a blind ham he loves your audio quality. Thanx.

So this looks quite interesting. Now I do have a question before optionally giving the software a try. When I run the VMware player with Dragon OS installed, will it recognize the RSPdx that is connected to my pc? I tried quite some time ago and at that time the VMware didn't seem to recognize the connected dongles.

it would be awesome if someone ported this over to arm chips so it would run on raspberry pi..... perfect mobile rig EDIT it already is.... well now I have to get into sdr lol

His Sourceforge is getting Hammered! Taking at least 20-30 mins to DL.

Awesome 👌

Good evening, please can you help me with SigPloit information, where can I find the program outside of github (DragonOS Focal is not), thank you very much for your reply and you can give us information

What type of antenna would you recommend for an sdr if your trying to decode universal radio signals?

Does this fileset include the wx2img software?

Any idea why SDR++ would crash on launch? No error message. With or without SDR dongle inserted. Toshiba Portege I3 with 4gb

does this work with the rtl sdr v3 dongle

Would be interesting to see if any of these applications do work in Windows under WSL

Hi How can i listen to the VHF and UHF bounds with hackrf ?

very cool tnx

I have a question how much disk space is used for Dragon os focal I got a 128GB SSD drive just to run Dragon os focal on it and its using half of that space 52GB I must have installed it wrong when I use the df command it gives funny numbers can you or anyone help. Thanks in advance.

Trying this out got vm installed and Dragon os locks up while loading. Any tips. I would like to get this installed on an old laptop so it's dedicated to sdr only

Will focal work on a pi ?

Can I install this on a nano pi2 V4?

I wonder if I could install this as one of three os systems , windows 10 and ubuntu, then this os. Using the GRUB bootloader?

Good morning, i installed it on raspberry pi 3B, but impossible to configure audio output. How to do please ? Can you help me please . F5SSB/PY6

this just make me want to get hackrf even more,,,,going to get with the portapack..... which aerial would be best to use on the roof?

Many thanks for the excellent video on installing DragonOS now makes sence to this old fart :)

Hej! Świetnie i merytorycznie opisane funkcje. Fajnie się tego słucha i ogląda. Dla początkujących: jak zainstalowac sterowniki do sdrPlay albo innych usb hardware ?

Hello How can I Disable the password entry request at system startup? i try with sudo raspi-config but never change.... Thank you!

Use DragonOS everyday since 2021

Very interesting....

Hello sir at TechMinds - fantastic introduction to Dragon OS Focal I unfortunately have noticed SDR++ crashes when I push the play button and using a HackRF transceiver via USB. This is not the case when I use SDR++ directly on my Windows 11 computer. At the beginning I was struggling A LOT making it possible to scale the VMware window. After many reinstallations, it is now possible, but alle advices I found at the Internet didn't work for me - why it is working now, I don't know. Best regards Bjarke / OZ2BKK

Nice 👍

damn i wish i hard the hardware to do this!!!!! very very very very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gr-tempest looks interesting…. The ultimate tech minds demo…

Heres my like 😀😉

Hi I cannot get Dragon OS to run on VMWare. It does not install. I get start PXE over IPv4. I managed to get Kali Linux running on VMWare. Downloaded the dragon focalIXi_R29.1 iso file.

I heard an alien transmission on your video timelime 7:30 😳

Yooooo it already has sdrtrunk installed!!!!

So how does this compare with the skywave linux distro that similarly focuses on HAM use?

Not sure if this is a proper place for asking, but after installing VMware and running the live DragonOS I try to install the OS but get stuck because display resolution is not correct. I can't seem to get all info on screen. The virtual machine is not showing in the right resolution and I don't know how to alter this. Help would be appreciated

Does it decrypt Moto BP?

This is not a review. It's an overview. I wish you had explored more of what this software is capable of, especially when you referred to it as the best tool for preinstalled programs. Something this big deserves a proper in depth review.

very good video, have downloaded and got DragonOS running in VMware WS was interested in testing out SDR ++ but it opens and just vanishes any ideas? :-) Thanks’ for the Video

compatible for raspberry pi?

Can you make more video showcasing tools in this OS? Very interesting!

Hello i watched the video and its just awesome to me. i need to learn ss7 attack i have hackrf one and rest of the things like res pi can you please provide me ss7 attack tutorial.

Can you do a duo boot with windows

Can it jam 2.4GHz?

Thanks for very interesting video. 73, PA2HO

I wonder why they just didn't make a PPA

ive tried one of these types of sdr linux distros and it ran like complete trash i think it was called skyware or skywave dont remember the name but do remember it running like trash if this runs like Ubuntu or Manjaro or Windows 10 im going to try running it on a raspberry pi and my computer is old and runs slow but windows seems to run smoother than all the Linux distros I've tried

Needs a raspberry pi 4 build!

Thanks for the video, I have the Dragon OS installed as shown, however SDR++ won't recognise either my Airspy R2 or Airspy HF+ and thus won't start, I have chosen the option to connect to a virtual machine, in the 'Removable Device' menu it shows as connected, But even the serial number is not showing Am I missing something? Update* Reinstalled everything, Airspy HF+ is now recognised and working, but not Airspy R2, Even an old generic Rtl Tv Dongle works with SDR++ and Cubic SDR, Not my R2, Although its serial number will now show in SDR++, Change back to Windows and my Airspy R2 works perfectly with SDR console.

DragonOS will lose all downloaded files after restarting in the VMware. I don't know how to fix it.

is there any way to use this without a antenna?

👍👍👍

I wonder if it will run on a pi. 🤔

I wish you would have shown how you got this stuff to work cause i cant even get the hackrf to work or be seen

Virtual Machines don't Work with SDRs, that are connected to my Computer,

DragonOS is based on lubuntu? Skip the VM and just run it natively.

It would be awesome if you moderated some of the fake YT accounts spamming your comments about crypto.....

I'm gonna try a new Linux distro. Let's run it under Windows! 🤦

DOS is good

Tried on my older laptop and it will not run.

Would it work on raspberry pi 3

You really need a 12 core CPU and at least 32 gigs of ram to really use this program to its fullest, along with plenty of high speed USB IO.

/usr/src$ ls isnt coming up? I cant get the list in the command

gesundheit

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I always have the latest in technology including HAM transceivers. However, the question is, is it worthwhile to invest all the time and money to hear squeaky noises, hissing, and the odd answer from someone asking the same old question how you receive me, what is the reception level, or some other stupid question that is said a million times before. There is also software around and please be careful what you are getting as most stuff is outdated as DOS is. - I have my license and still regret that I ever did it as it is nothing better than glorified CB radio with not much more than always the same absurd questions and answers. You also must pay every year a license fee. A bottle of wine would be much better as at least one would have a nice headache. - HAM radio analogue or digital is boring and as good as dead in Australia for instance. If someone wants to talk to someone else, use the phone or the internet. If it would somehow not work tough luck. If there would be any mishap or catastrophe, well, you can always hang yourself.