It works fine with rtl-sdr E4k tuner dongle below 2.2GHz, but doesn't work in 2.5~2.7GHz even with external MMDS-LNB.
Because the algorithm assumes analytic relationship between carrier and sampling frequency error.
I write some matlab scripts (
https://github.com/JiaoXianjun/rtl-sdr-LTE ) to separate carrier and sampling processing in algorithm. Aided by MMDS-LNB, the scripts can detect TDD&FDD LTE cell in 2.5~2.7GHz now!
12 LTE Cells information are decoded. 2 are FDD LTE, the rest are TD-LTE. Because here is China! (Partly because that TD-LTE is announed earier than FDD by government)
Hope that in the future these features can be merged to original LTE-Cell-Scanner.