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HackRF One · Deep Dive · 12 volumes

HackRF One

A 12-volume engineer-grade reference for the HackRF One, the PortaPack, and the H2R4 bundle.

Wideband SDR (1 MHz – 6 GHz) — the SDR that everything else gets compared to.

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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 HackRF One Volume 1 — Series Overview, the H2R4 Bundle, and the Upgrade Landscape An engineer's tour of the HackRF One, the PortaPack, and where the Pro fits, with depth indices into Volumes 2–12
  2. Vol 2 HackRF One Volume 2 — The RF Chain & the Revision Matrix (r1 → r10, plus HackRF Pro) A schematic-grade walk of the analogue path, with every PCB-revision delta and the upgrade decision tree
  3. Vol 3 HackRF One Volume 3 — The Digital Subsystem (LPC4320, CPLD, SGPIO, Clocking) How an 8-bit sample physically gets from the MAX5864 to a USB endpoint
  4. Vol 4 HackRF One Volume 4 — Firmware, DFU, Recovery, and Building from Source The hackrf firmware tree, the v2026.01.1 release, the bricked-device recovery path, and how to build your own
  5. Vol 5 HackRF One Volume 5 — Host Tooling (`hackrf_*` CLI, libhackrf, Python) The day-to-day driver layer above libhackrf — capture, sweep, debug, automation
  6. Vol 6 HackRF One Volume 6 — GNU Radio Companion 3.10+ Workflows From source/sink block to a working AM/FM/SSB/FSK demodulator and an OOT module
  7. Vol 7 HackRF One Volume 7 — Protocol Analysis (URH, Inspectrum, SigDigger) From IQ recording to bits, packets, state machines, and a Flipper FAP
  8. Vol 8 HackRF One Volume 8 — Antennas, LNAs, Filters, and the 8-bit Dynamic-Range Budget Real-world front-end pairing for the bands you care about
  9. Vol 9 HackRF One Volume 9 — The PortaPack H2+ (and the H1 / H2 / H4 / H4M Comparison) Hardware, schematic, and a defensible upgrade-path matrix
  10. Vol 10 HackRF One Volume 10 — Mayhem Firmware (App Catalog, Navigation, Building, Plugins) The standalone-radio personality — what it does, how to navigate it, and how to build it
  11. Vol 11 HackRF One Volume 11 — Operations, RF Safety, Legal, and Lab Discipline Capture / decode / replay end-to-end, the never-TX list, and the bench-discipline rules
  12. Vol 12 HackRF One Volume 12 — Cheatsheet (the Laminate-Ready Field Card) One-pagers and decision flowcharts — the synthesis volume