Software Defined Radio (SDR)

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  1. GNU Radio icon
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    GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Flowgraph for narrowband FM demodulator.
  2. Gqrx icon
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    Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by the GNU Radio icon GNU Radio SDR framework and the Qt graphical toolkit. It supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
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    Gqrx screenshot 1
  3. SDRangel icon
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    SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay RSP1 and FunCube

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    SDRangel screenshot 1
  4. Baudline icon
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    Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. CubicSDR icon
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    CubicSDR is a cross-platform Software-Defined Radio application which allows you to navigate the radio spectrum and demodulate any signals you might discover.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    CubicSDR v1.2.0-alpha showing 20 MHz bandwidth of HackRF One
    CubicSDR v1.2.0-alpha showing 2 MHz bandwidth of HackRF One
  6. inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. The Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a software for investigating unknown wireless protocols.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Get the data out of raw signals
    Keep an overview even on complex protocols
    Record and send signals
  8. SoapySDR icon
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    SoapySDR is an open-source generalized C/C++ API and runtime library for interfacing with SDR devices. With SoapySDR, you can instantiate, configure, and stream with an SDR device in a variety of environments. Both osmosdr and uhd devices are available within SoapySDR.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. SDR# icon
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    SDR# (SDRSharp) is a popular, simple, fast and extensible Software Defined Radio program written from scratch in C# to experiment new Digital Signal Processing techniques and push the Microsoft .NET Framework to its limits.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    SDR# screenshot 1
  10. A graphical application for showing the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) as graph and waterfall diagram of the radio spectrum retrieved by Software Defined Radio (SDR) devices supported by GrOsmoSDR. Plugins enable demodulating a selected signal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Spectrum showing GSM signals
    LTE signal
  11. OpenWebRX icon
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    Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    HDSDR is a freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Typical applications are Radio listening, Ham Radio, SWL, Radio Astronomy, NDB-hunting and Spectrum analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Receiving the whole 15m band with HDSDR and Perseus under Windows8 64bit.
    Receiving FM Radio broadcast with HDSDR and RTL2832 bases DVB-T receiver under Windows8 64bit.
    Receiving the whole 10m band with HDSDR and Perseus under Windows8 64bit.
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    HDSDR Recording Scheduler.
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    LuaRadio is a lightweight, embeddable flow graph signal processing framework for software-defined radio. It provides a suite of source, sink, and processing blocks, with a simple API for defining flow graphs, running flow graphs, creating blocks, and creating data types.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    Plot generated by the spectrum plotting sink.
    Wideband FM Broadcast Radio Receiver flowgraph
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