Bill of materials

r2cloud supports various hardware configurations. Due to limited resources we cannot test any possible combination of hardware components and software versions. So below is the recommended setup which is guaranteed to be working.

Antenna

Discone antenna. Omnidirectional:

• Search on Amazon. Good example
• Alibaba

Cables

PL259 Male to SMA Male. Length should be specific to installation. The shorter cable between antenna and RTL-SDR stick, the better.

• Amazon
• AliExpress

RTL-SDR

RTL-SDR from rtl-sdr.com has very good characteristics:

• Amazon
• rtl-sdr.com
• AliExpress

Raspberrypi

r2cloud supports all raspberrypi versions. Even including the first one. Some sellers offer full set which includes: raspberrypi, sd card, case, charger.

• AliExpress
• Amazon