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
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:45:08 +1100
From: Ben Ryan <benryanau(a)hotmail.com>
To: <osmocom-sdr(a)lists.osmocom.org>
Subject: RE: RTL-SDR Scanner/Plotter (Al)
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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
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:53:01 +0000
> From: Al <al(a)eartoearoak.com>
> To: osmocom-sdr(a)lists.osmocom.org
> Subject: RTL-SDR Scanner/Plotter
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> 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