Hi ben,

Thanks, glad you like the scanner although I realise it's a bit of a pain to install all the dependencies under Windows or OS X. I intended the software to be used to find interesting signals, which you could then analyse in other software, never really as a spectrum analyser (the thought of implementing all the maths gives me a headache!). Once I've found something I often use sdrsharp to investigate it and if I'm still interested I move onto GNU Radio. I would really recommend you try GNU Radio, although you may find it has a steep learning curve. For example you could use VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) to run an Ubuntu machine on your desktop (compiling under Windows can be tricky) . There's plenty of information on both virtual machines and GNU Radio installation around.

Good luck, Al

Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:45:08 +1100 From: Ben Ryan benryanau@hotmail.com To: osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org Subject: RE: RTL-SDR Scanner/Plotter (Al) Message-ID: SNT139-W63EB2510A068891AA8A25B6160@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hey mate this looks really great! I've dreamed about building something similar for an RTLSDR, but much fancier (ping-pong on 'interesting' chirps, yo-yo sweeps to find voice/burst comms, trended plots etc etc). A poor man's wideband spectrum analyser. But I can't code to save my life.. However, wait long enough and funny things happen :) You've made a great start with this project, especially given there was NOTHING out there prior (that I've seen anyhow. Certainly for Win32.) All the module/package dependencies are a bit of a pain but hey, you've got a working app :) Love to try it soon when I get a chance, hope you develop it up into a full-bllown RTLSDR spectrum analyser / "interesting signal" finder!

Cheers ben

...

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:53:01 +0000 From: Al al@eartoearoak.com To: osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org Subject: RTL-SDR Scanner/Plotter Message-ID: 50FD726D.5010000@eartoearoak.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi,

I thought you may be interested in a program I've written, it's a Python GUI which scans a set of frequencies and plots the resulting levels, which can be saved for later viewing or exported to a CSV file.

Source: https://github.com/EarToEarOak/RTLSDR-Scanner More info: http://www.eartoearoak.com/software/rtlsdr-scanner

I wrote it to help me find signals over a wide bandwidth, to get a better view of the RF space. I hope you find it useful.

Al