Welcome to the new RTL-SDR Blog forums!
On these forums, you can ask questions about RTL-SDR, other software-defined radios, signal identification, or anything related to SDRs and the radio hobby in general.
For shipping inquiries or suspected faults with RTL-SDR.COM products, please email us directly at admin@rtl-sdr.com with your order ID details for direct support.
Why are we changing forum providers?
We have decided to retire the old phpBB-based forums at www.rtl-sdr.com/forum due to excessive spam, which is very time-consuming and almost impossible to fight. Ever since the ChatGPT age started, we’ve been seeing increasingly sophisticated AI generated posts that sound very legitmate. The spammers goal is to start a discussion with real users, then later replace the original post with spam links, or later reply with a spam link. This is frustrating as it takes a lot of moderation time, and wastes legitimate users’ time too. We’ve explored numerous methods to reduce spam on the phpBB forums, but nothing worked as it seems that all captchas available for us to use on phpBB have been defeated by AI.
This discourse forum, being a paid forum should hopefully have much improved spam detection.
