✅ HackRF Portapack H2: Looking Glass Beginner Guide (See All The Things)

[Music] [Music] hey guys so today we're taking another look at the portter pack and the hack RF in our series we started out with talking about the portter Pac and the hacker F I also talked about how you could Flash the Mayhem firmware uh if you were just buying your stuff your Porta pack and your hack RF and then later I also talked about how to take an old laptop speaker and to actually install it into the hack RF portter Pac so we've done that in the last video and today I want to talk about what I believe is going to be possibly the most useful of all the apps for you on the portter Pac and I wanted to cover this first because if I cover the other apps first I may end up using it may as well explain it first so let's go ahead and go over what I believe is going to be one of the most useful apps to you so one of these apps that I find to be very useful is going to be the looking glass app as you see right here when you first turn it on and go over you'll see looking glass right here and what it makes it so useful is it actually scans entire band for you so if you want to look at the ham 2 meter band uh you actually can open it in Looking Glass very easily just by going to the preset so first off use the arrows for navigation so bottom arrow goes down this goes left this goes right this goes up so as you can see once I do that I go down I can go up but I can also on some cases on some lines I can go over so I can go left I can go right uh and you can go down again when you need to go down and then you can use this dial here to then change some of those settings so what we want to do is find a band that we are looking for so what makes it so useful is you can actually see the signals you can see the signal strengths you can see the actual uh characteristics of each signal because some are very recognizable for what their uses for and then other ones are going to have their own distinct look so you'll get familiar with this as you work with SDR and radio uh you'll start to learn to recognize what signal means what uh when you're seeing voice it's going to look like a wave pattern it's going to generally when you get a closeup at least uh you you will see a wave pattern right in the signal uh so we can demonstrate that first go down to prets this is where you're going to probably spend a lot of time if you get a hacker F and portter pack even if you're using other Hardware devices even if you're using another kind of radio device you can discover the signals with your hacker F portter pack with Looking Glass you can find out exactly what frequency they're on tune in on your other device or coordinate with your hacker ra and other device and that could really help you out and help you to you know narrow down things to a more exact signal uh so we can go back up here and go through some of the other uh bands here now when we go through here we're going to see all the different ranges now what this means at the top that has a range of two so that means it's scanning 2 megahertz across so it starts at 28 mahz it ends at 30 mahz so from here to here is actually only 2 mahz across uh so that is the range of frequencies between 28 and 30 here now when I turn this dial it's going to be a whole different area so if you note these numbers change the minimum which is the low side which is 50 megahertz and then you have the max which is the high side which is 54 mahz is f is 4 mahz across from 50 MHz 54 mahz and it is doing a live scanning of each so as it's doing this you see it moving down it's actually scanning across instantly and then it's printing it out at the speed it's able to scan and that's going to make sense as we continue this video so as you can see a little different there we have the ham 2 meter there and we can continue going up now this one's a little slower wonder why that is well it's because it's a much wider bandwidth so we have the range now is 240 megaherz across it starts at 260 ends at 500 so you can see the range here since the numbers aren't marked right on this these signals right here are not marked by the frequency uh you can estimate it you can take a look at here this is 260 take a look over here this is 500 uh and then at this point you can take a look down and what you're looking at is actually the key fob range so you're at 315 to 433 between that is where you're actually looking at um so key fobs are 315 and 433 so from here to down here so the marker right now is at 3 380 now if we go down we can actually take a closer look at some of this uh by putting it on the actual marker then turning the dial and that's going to move that little red marker over to where you want to go so if you want to take a little closer look you can get over top of one and see if it matches a pattern of a signal that you were looking for so if I click on this you can actually see it a little closer uh and we're not going to be listening to key fobs today uh so we will continue going through some of these other options here so if we go over here we can see the Marine very high frequency and this one's also slower it's because it's also a much broader range that it is scanning on now you have us Pages here this is the US pagers area so if you're listening to this you can see if if there's any activity on that now there's more page arranges here so we have these page arranges we have these page arranges and you can see some activity as well uh and there's actually a pager decoding app as well so you can see how this can come in handy you could go over there and attempt to decode the signal right there if it were a pager itself uh so as you can tell you know this is a useful useful app even if you're working with other types of radios um just having the ability to have that visual is really useful there's another pager uh right there so you can actually take a look and then we could go down here and we could dial it in and once we find it there we go we're on top of it and what you're doing at that point is you're you're noting that frequency and you can even go ahead and save it so I could actually click on this again and I can actually save it right here by hitting save and then I'll have that frequency saved and I can load it using other applications so Looking Glass is very useful but now let's go ahead and see if we can take a listen to something uh let's take a look around oh while we're here this is Bluetooth and WiFi so if you ever were wondering what it looked like actual waterfalls that's what they're called the signals are called waterfalls because of the way it falls like a waterfall uh so you have uh Bluetooth and Wifi on this area here and we can actually uh see the signals being transmitted right there now we can continue going up and we see the 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi range now this is a much slower one because as you can tell it's scanning a much slower rate and because of the range it's because it's more than double in the range so of course it's going to be twice as slow because you know just like any other piece of hardware there are limitations in everything but hey super cool that you can actually see everything um because it really does help you out no matter what you're working on you're going to find that this looking glass app is going to be very useful for locating things we'll go ahead and take a look for FM radio broadcast so when we go to FM radio FM radios right here so you see fm broadcast and what that's showing us is these are FM radio podcast so like something like music that you may listen to in the car uh that would be something like this so you have this right here and you can see all the signals and we can go down here and we can actually tune into them so we can go ahead over and we could try out the strongest one first which is the red one so the red is going to be the strongest signal there's also ways you can tweak that so we go over to this we see this once again and we think but what you can do is turn it to wide FM wfm which is right here so remember use your arrows to get over top of it and we can then go down all the way down to the bottom and when you see that marker pop up we can then roll it over so turn the knob get right in the center of that and this is how you're going to tune in and then press that middle button you hear how that cleared up that's really clear so as you can see not too hard to operate once you know your way around the portter pack and the Looking Glass which is very handy so that's just one station we could even save that station say we want to save that station as whatever oldies we could do that uh so you can see that we can go down and take a look at another one uh we can go ahead and take this and bring it to one of the other signals and we'll go ahead with this one just for the heck of it and at this point we can then you know try and move a little closer to the signal so you have two options when you're tuning from this audio receive section this is another app um which you can access from Looking Glass which is another thing that makes Looking Glass so handy um so then what we do at this point is we want to change the modulation which is AM FM things like that those are forms of modulation which is going to allow you to hear it uh so then I can go down here I got it on wfm I can see right here I have some signal over here I can push the down arrow to get all the way to the bottom and then press that middle button and there we go we are listening to yet another station now this one's not quite as strong as you can see it's a little you know a little thin the signal uh so you know we get what we can we could also change our antenna and possibly improve that signal so that's another thing it's not just about your receiver it's in big part the antenna as well you're not going to be able to pick up every signal on every antenna you're going to need to learn what type of antenna it is for the device that you're looking to tune into uh so if you don't have one this is a great place to start this was the first SDR I got which is the blog version 3 now there's blog version 4 which is probably better uh so go to you know if you want one of these you want something to start out with this is a great place to start it's only like 30 bucks uh you can get a kit for 40 bucks that has massive dipole antenna so you can really pick up different things so if you remember my video uh speakers act as remotely transmitting microphones I used an rtl-sdr and the kit antennas that came with that to do that video so there's a lot of things you can do with the RTL that SDR but you can't transmit on the RTL SDR but it is better at receiving so if you want to actually listen to shortwave things like that this is probably going to be a much better bet for you if you're not looking at something for like Wireless analysis this is more you know nice as an option for people interest in Wireless analysis for ethical pen testing or just basically learning more about Wireless this is a great tool to have for anyone uh and there's lots of different options to get it there's the official version the hacker app from great scy gadgets that's the one I recommend people you know go for if they can afford to support Great Scott gadgets but you can also get clones they're out there as well um I got this as a gift personally um but there's a lot of different options to get a hacker F and a portter pack um your best bet if you end up getting a portter pack as your goal is to get it all in one kit cuz then at least they usually come with the Mayhem firmware and you won't have to worry about working all that out on your own and you won't have to worry about compatibility issues as has been mentioned some of the devices that are out there's even another portter pack called the H3 that's not part of the Mayhem firmware project so it isn't recommended by the Mayhem firmware project in fact uh they are not combining the work from the H3 with the Mayhem so it's a entirely separate project and it may not work down the road uh depending on who's working on it and how dedicated they are so going back into Looking Glass uh we can really find everything on it and that's what makes it so magic uh is that we can really go through and find everything so and we can also learn more about what ranges or what what bands or what by going to these presets and just you know scrolling through them take a look where is the marker okay okay where is the minimum 76 MHz here the maximum 95 MHz here it has to scan a range of 19 megahertz across as you can see right here this current range is set for 19 across uh so that's what those numbers mean so you can go up here and you can actually um see the different numbers for the range and everything and um at this point the red marker is on 85 .5 and we can go down here to highlight the frequency and then we could actually turn those and then to get on top of one you'll simply you know just press that middle button and it'll take you right on top of it and then you could mess with the modulation if you want to try to listen to something if it's someone talking remember look for those wave patterns that's what you're looking for when when you're trying to listen to talking generally that's what you're going to see uh especially for f fm broadcast so going through more of them you know you have different countries so you have FM broadcast in Japan so if you live in a Japan you can take a look at that one and you can keep an eye on what's happening in real time so if you're looking to find a actual uh key fob you'll simply go to the range for key fobs and then you'll look for a actual signal jump when you hit the key fob button and then you'll know what frequency to tune it into and then you can use that to then later on work on your captors jams whatever it is that you're doing uh if you're doing ethical pen testing or something like that um but even if you're not doing ethical pen testing this is a great tool for anyone interested in radio it's something that's going to teach you a lot about radio and um it's really a great device to have I think no matter what you're doing um but let's go ahead and take a look around again so we also have a BAL Fang out right here so I might go ahead and just tune into something just do a little demo you can also type in your numbers and save things so that's quite handy as well so let's go ahead and line them up other thing you may want to just line it up a bit better testing so as you can see it's actually not quite on point here so what I did was I moved that dial over testing testing as you can see you can really hear it that time because what it was was the mark marker was slightly off even though both radios had the same frequency what you need to do is line that marker up with the signal strength put it right in the middle and that's where you're going to get the clearer sound and turn off the volume just a a little bit turn off the [Music] volume testing testing one two and three so as you can see it can pick up a lot now let's go ahead over to one more quick test and I do have this all in a controlled setting right now all right and now we're listening to some shortwave we have 9 megahertz here and our marker is set right in the middle of the signal so you actually can pick up things like shortwave with the hack RF and the portter pack uh with the right setup now for this I added my dipole that came with my rtl-sdr kit and that is the kit I recommend everyone who's interested in trying SDR uh because it also comes with some really nice antennas that are able to be resized to pick up all different types of ranges so with the Looking Glass and then the ability to visually see those signals uh scan those signals in whatever range that you choose and then to then just simply use that middle button to select them it brings you right to the audio reception app and from there you can then simply tune everything in as mentioned press the down arrow see as it's highlighting and going further down you can even record so if you want to record something go up to that record button right there so say I want to record Girls Just Want to Have Fun as happens to be playing on this station I would simply hit that record button right there and as you can see it now says stop so I can stop it whenever I'm ready I could also take these recordings and I could try and clean them up better uh you can see an example of that where I do a noise reduction or my video where I use a cubes laptop and I show how you can remotely pick up the speakers that can act as a microphone on um my laptop I had noticed this and given it was a cubes machine I thought it was worth recording uh so I did some audio cleanup on that demonstration so if you're interested in tenacity which is an audacity uh Fork uh that's a great option for cleaning up your audio recordings uh but like I said really great option here we have the looking glass app and then we can transfer anything we see right over into the audio receive or we can save any of those signals and we can then import them into the other apps that are available on the portter pack so Looking Glass to me is the most essential app to First cover uh so that's what I'm done today and I hope you've enjoyed this video uh and make sure to share it on social media and any other place people have an interest in radio uh and you can take out my previous videos where I also covered how to install an old laptop speaker as your speaker so you also have that as an option uh and you know I don't have a perfect antenna for picking up 9 MHz uh because it is just an rtl-sdr kit uh people who really take ham radio seriously are going to have major antennas that are tens of feet long uh so I'm just using what I got uh just to do some demonstrations so make sure to share the video guys like it and I'll continue making videos that I think you'll find interesting 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Published: Tue Feb 27 2024