Software Defined Radio Workshop

Everyone loves a good puzzle — this workshop challenges participants with a classic signals mystery: how can we decode the transmission from a basic RF remote and spoof it using our own SDR hardware? In this 90 minute session, we will walk through the reverse engineering process for a simple, commercially available RF remote. We’ll focus on analyzing and characterizing the signal, then recreating it in GNURadio. In order to keep the workshop as accessible as possible, students need not be familiar with SDRs or have their own. This is a preview of a series of lessons from Dr. Rogers’ Spring SDR course.

Dr. Neil G. Rogers is an RF Field Applications Engineer at Analog Devices, where he supports aerospace and defense customers with advanced board‑ and system‑level RF designs. His career spans two decades of technical leadership in the U.S. Air Force, including roles at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the JSTARS Recapitalization program. As Senior Military Faculty and an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, he shaped engineering curriculum and led cadet research in SDRs, communications, counter‑UAS, robotics, antennas, and electromagnetics. He holds a B.S. from the University of Tulsa and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.