Open Source HDSDR Alternatives

    HDSDR is described as 'freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10'. There are more than 10 alternatives to HDSDR for various platforms. The best alternative is Gqrx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HDSDR are CubicSDR (Free, Open Source), GNU Radio (Free, Open Source), SDRangel (Free, Open Source) and inspectrum (Free, Open Source).

    The list of alternatives was last updated Nov 24, 2020
    HDSDR info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to HDSDR
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    • Gqrx

      Gqrx is a software defined radio receiver powered by the GNU Radio SDR framework and the Qt graphical toolkit.
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    • CubicSDR

      CubicSDR is a cross-platform Software-Defined Radio application which allows you to navigate the radio spectrum and demodulate any signals you might discover.
      • Free • Open Source
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    • GNU Radio

      GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.
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      • SDRangel

        SDRangel is an Open Source Qt5 / OpenGL 3.0+ (Linux) SDR and signal analyzer frontend to various hardware.
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          SDRAngel is the most complete and signal-processing-correct SDR digital processor I have found for running the LimeUSB SDR boards.
          Positive comment • 10 months ago

        • inspectrum

          inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.
          • Free • Open Source
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        • sdrangelove

          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.
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          • Linrad

            A program for software defined radio (SDR).
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            • QRadioLink

              QRadioLink is a multimode SDR transceiver application using VOIP communication (radio over IP), built on top of GNU radio, which allows experimenting with software defined radio hardware using different digital and analog radio signals and a Qt5 UI.
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