Based on our record, SDR# should be more popular than Baudline. It has been mentiond 5 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
As far as assembling an SDR from discrete parts, you can check out the MCHF kit or Asher Farhan's sbitx. Great radios, but nothing like the value prop of the RTL-SDR. If you're just looking for a cheap radio to listen with, I'd recommend Airspy. Source: 10 months ago
SPY Server v2.0.1822 Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Youssef Touil - https://airspy.com Reading the configuration file: spyserver.config Listening for connections on 192.168.1.52:5555 Accepted client 192.168.1.2:62918 running SDR# v1.0.0.1909 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0 Device was sleeping. Wake up! Could not find any suitable device Accepted client 192.168.1.2:62919 running SDR# v1.0.0.1909 on Microsoft Windows... Source: about 1 year ago
But look, rtl_sdrs are not a great choice for HF. I would recommend looking at Airspy or SDRPlay if you want to receive HF. Source: over 1 year ago
Then there are non-RTL-SDR devices, like devices from AirSpy, some of which use RTL receivers, and some that don't, but present themselves to the computer as a unique device that requires separate drivers and software. Source: over 1 year ago
Minor plug. Airspy had some very high quality SDR receivers and they do a Black Friday sale every year. https://airspy.com/ Not sure when it ends but if you’ve been running Annie doing your toes into SDR these are good products. I’ve got both the R2 and HF+ products and enjoy them both. RTL’s can’t be beat for price alone but if you’re early distracted by hardware limitations they can be a challenge lol. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Nothing beats baudline, this has been my go-to signal analyzer tool for decades. It makes me sad that the project has not seen any updates for a long time, and it is getting harder to get it to run proper on a modern OS. I believe the author considered releasing the source code under some permissive license long ago, but decided not to because the project was refused by freshmeat. Sigblip: if you read this, please... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
For those who were also curious windytan explains in her FAQ that she uses _baudline_ to create these beautiful spectrograms. http://baudline.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
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