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The HackRF One is a popular software defined radio (SDR) device, supporting not only reception but also the transmission of radio signals in the range between 1 MHz and 6 GHz. A new feature in the HackRF firmware now allows using it as a spectrum analyzer over the full 6 GHz range.

The 20 MHz bandwidth of the HackRF One always allowed you to use it as a real-time spectrum analyzer if the spectrum of interest was narrower than 20 MHz (screenshot taken from gqrx):

Driver advan pin 46125. Recently, with release 2017.02.01 of the HackRF firmware and tools, a sweep mode was added which allows you to use the device as a wideband spectrum analyzer over the full 6 GHz spectrum. A corresponding backend was added to QSpectrumAnalyzer (hackrf_sweep), making it possible to interactively setup the sweep functionality and to visualize the spectrum:

Is the HackRf an amateur radio transceiver? On first glance the HackRf seems to offer a flexible, fully digital wide band transceiver with a frequency range from the 80m band up to 6cm. It is open source hardware that can be used with a wide range of open source software, every part of the system can be modified and experimented with. HackRF One, from Great Scott Gadgets, is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 1 MHz to 6 GHz, designed to enable test and development of modern and next-generation radio technologies. HackRF One covers many licensed and unlicensed ham radio bands.

Using this feature, you can also look at specific frequency ranges, e.g. WiFi and cellular networks in your area, ISM bands or your local DVB-T stations as shown in the screenshot below.

Currently, there are still a few issues, mainly performance-wise:

  • hackrf_sweep sometimes drops frequency bins on high system load. In QSpectrumAnalyzer, this is dealt with by entirely dropping sweeps with wrong bin count. Depending on the system load, this can significantly reduce the effective sweep rate.
  • Depending on the frequency range and the bin size, the sweep rate of hackrf_sweep overloads QSpectrumAnalyzer, rendering the application unusable. As a workaround, rate limiting was added by allowing to set a minimum sweep interval. hackrf_sweep will still run with its native sweep rate but QSpectrumAnalyzer will drop sweeps to reduce the rate accordingly.

The mentioned workarounds are in place since QSpectrumAnalyzer 2.2.0. Automata toys free patterns.

Introduction: What is HackRF One?

HackRF One from Great Scott Gadgets is a SDR (Software Defined Radio) peripheral capable of receiving and transmitting radio signals between the frequencies of 1 MHz and 6 GHz, including most devices operating with:

  • Bluetooth, FM radio, near-field communication (NFC), cellular technology/smart phones, WiFi, GPS and IT infrastructures.
Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system.
A basic SDR system may consist of a personal computer equipped with a sound card, or other analog-to-digital converter, preceded by some form of RF front end.

HackRF One is an open source hardware platform, designed to enable test and development of modern and next generation radio technologies, that can be used as a USB peripheral or programmed for stand-alone operation. It works like a sound card of computer processing digital signals to radio waveforms, allowing integration of large-scale communication networks.

The HackRF One is test equipment for RF systems. It has not been tested for compliance with regulations governing transmission of radio signals.

HackRF: Open source SDR platform [design, hardware specs, features]

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It has an injection molded plastic enclosure and ships with a micro USB cable, but comes without an antenna. To start, you can use recommended ANT500 antenna (supports frequencies from 75 MHz to 1 GH). HackRF One is also very affordable compare to its competitors, which can range from $500 to $1100+.

The HackRF One works with software/computer that can process SDR, such as GNU Radio Companion (GRC). It’s compatible with SDR#, HDSDR and SDR-Console on Windows, GQRX on Linux and RF Analyzer on Android. This SDR device operates in half duplex mode, which means that it’s only able to either receive transmissions ortransmit signals one at a time, rather than receiving and transmitting at the same time.

Features:

  • half-duplex transceiver
  • operating freq: 1 MHz to 6 GHz
  • supported sample rates: 2 Msps to 20 Msps (quadrature)
  • resolution: 8 bits
  • interface: High Speed USB (with USB Micro-B connector)
  • power supply: USB bus power
  • software-controlled antenna port power (max 50 mA at 3.3 V)
  • SMA female antenna connector (50 ohms)
  • SMA female clock input and output for synchronization
  • convenient buttons for programming
  • pin headers for expansion
  • portable & open source

Supported platforms:

The software can be installed on any Linux machine, but HackRFw works best on the Pentoo Linux.

The easiest way to get started with your HackRF and ensure that it works is to use Pentoo Linux distro, which has full support for HackRF and GNU Radio. If you want to avoid headaches, you can find some setup tricks in the HackRF One Github Wiki.

Hacking with HackRF One

If you’re into Radio Hacking, HackRF One is your go-to tool. The popularity of HackRF One as a security research platform has made it featured in many InfoSec conferences, such as: BlackHat, DEF CON, BSides, etc. You can use HackRF for:

Hackrf One Wifi

  • sniffing radio communications, transmitting your own signals or even replaying the signals that you have captured
  • replay attacks: with GNU Radio installed on your Linux machine and a HackRF attached you can easily record a fixed code transmission and replays it at a later time to cause the receiver to ‘unlock‘ (e.g. car door unlocking)
  • Garage door opening: On-Off Keying (OOK), ringing doorbells, and a lot of funny things…
  • Disarming an alarm system by rebuilding the transmission
  • Capturing & replaying RF transmissions, reverse engineering unknown RF protocol, sniffing GSM traffic
  • Playing with an IoT wireless alarm system
  • Breaking car key FOB (and RF operated devices in general)
  • Replay, transmission and message tampering
  • Jamming: a device that deliberately interferes with authorized wireless communications, resembles DoS, disrupt any information that is sent between the components, disrupt the PIR movement sensor, etc.
  • …


Hackrf One With Raspberry Pi

Conclusion

Hackrf One Windows Tools

Windows

Hackrf One Windows 10 Driver

Compare to other devices for radio hacking, HackRF is the first affordable ($300) SDR device tried and tested by professionals and hobbyists. The device is actually made and designed for analysis with a wide frequency range for analyzing radio signals. So, if you like radio hacking, you should give HackRF One a try. You wont be disappointed.