Radio
2025
Building a Remote SDR “Observatory” with Proxmox and Tailscale
799 words·4 mins
Sdr
Rf
Linux
Aerospace
Radio
HomeLab
Projects
I turned an RTL-SDR dongle in my homelab into a full-time, remote-access RF observatory. This guide covers setting up a Proxmox VM as an SDR server with rtl_tcp, securing it over Tailscale, and streaming signals to GQRX from anywhere in the world.