Introduction: What is YARD Stick One?
YARD Stick One is a sub-1 GHz wireless transceiver which can be controlled from your computer. It comes with pre-installed RFCat firmware which allows you to control the wireless transceiver from an interactive Python shell or your own program/script. In addition, you can develop your own firmware or upgrade RFCat since it’s open-source and comes with CC Bootloader pre-installed.
Yard Stick One features strong RF performance across its operating frequency range. If you’re a security professional, researcher or pentester and interested in RF, you should also check out HackRF One.
YARD Stick One: [features, hardware specs, design]
YARD Stick One is capable of transmitting or receiving digital wireless signals at frequencies below 1 GHz. It’s equipped with SMA connector for external antennas and antenna port, which is compatible with different accessories, including GoodFET-compatible expansion/programming header and GIMME-compatible programming test points.
- half-duplex transmit and receive
- operating frequencies [official]: 300-348 MHz, 391-464 MHz, and 782-928 MHz
- operating frequencies [unofficial] : 281-361 MHz, 378-481 MHz, and 749-962 MHz
- modulations: ASK, OOK, GFSK, 2-FSK, 4-FSK, MSK
- data rates up to 500 kbps
- Full-Speed USB 2.0