Debian Hamradio Software Defined Radio packages

Airspy is an open source Software Defined Radio that can receive between 24 MHz and 1750 MHz. Airspy has a 10 MHz bandwidth. 12bit ADC @ 20 MSPS (80dB SFDR, 64dB SNR, 10.4 ENOB) It is a High Speed USB device powered by the USB bus.

This package contains a set of command line utilities:

• airspy_cpldjtag: program CLPD
• airspy_info: probe device and show configuration
• airspy_max2837: chip register read/write tool
• airspy_rffc5071: chip register read/write tool
• airspy_si5351c: chip register read/write tool
• airspy_spiflash: read and write flash data from file.
• airspy_transfer: file based transmit and receive sdr

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The Nuand bladeRF is an open-source software-defined radio (SDR) system, comprised of an RF transceiver, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a microcontroller driving a USB 3.0 interface, and a suite of host libraries and drivers to facilitate interaction with the device.

This package provides command-line tools for controlling the bladeRF.

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The CuteSDR application's primary purpose is for spawning custom applications or for educational use. It is NOT a full featured program as it is purposely kept simple in order for developers to more easily spin off their own applications. A further goal was to use only the stock functionality of Qt ie no libraries or special drivers. This limits CuteSDR to using only a network connection. The main gui and framework is written by Moe Wheatly, AE4JY.

CuteSDR itself has only a network interface and will directly support the RFSPACE NetSDR and SDR-IP radios. The siqs_ftdi and SDRxxServer applications (packaged separately) provide network interfaces to RFSPACE USB devices.

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GNU Radio 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 environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.

GNU Radio applications are primarily written using the Python programming language, while the supplied performance-critical signal processing path is implemented in C++ using processor floating-point extensions, where available. Thus, the developer is able to implement real-time, high-throughput radio systems in a simple-to-use, rapid-application-development environment.

While not primarily a simulation tool, GNU Radio does support development of signal processing algorithms using pre-recorded or generated data, avoiding the need for actual RF hardware.

This package contains the gnuradio-companion, a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code. Also included are a variety of tools and utility programs.

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Hardware supported includes OpenHPSDR Hermes / Metis and Red Pitaya using the OpenHpsdr protocol.

hermesNB sources decimated downconverted 48K-to-384K receiver complex stream(s), and sinks one 48k sample rate transmit complex stream.

hermesWB sources raw ADC samples as a vector of floats, with vlen=16384. Each individual vector contains time contiguous samples. However there are large time gaps between vectors. This is how HPSDR produces raw samples, it is due to Ethernet interface rate limitations between HPSDR and the host computer.

The modules are compatible with version 3.8 of gnuradio and versions of Hermes firmware 1.8 through at 3.2. (known as OpenHPSDR protocol 1). It is not compatible with the new OpenHPSDR protocol 2.

This package contains the header files and grc block definitions.

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The Osmocom project is a family of projects regarding Open source mobile communications.

While primarily being developed for the OsmoSDR hardware, this block as well supports:

• FUNcube Dongle through gr-funcube
• FUNcube Dongle Pro+ through gr-funcube
• RTL2832U based DVB-T dongles through librtlsdr
• RTL-TCP spectrum server (see librtlsdr project)
• gnuradio .cfile input through libgnuradio-blocks
• RFSPACE SDR-IQ, SDR-IP, NetSDR (incl. X2 option)
• Great Scott Gadgets HackRF through libhackrf
• Nuand LLC bladeRF through libbladeRF library
• Ettus USRP Devices through Ettus UHD library
• Fairwaves UmTRX through Fairwaves' fork of UHD
• AIRSPY Receiver
• AIRSPY HF+ Receiver
• SoapySDR support
• Red Pitaya SDR transceiver (http://bazaar.redpitaya.com)
• FreeSRP through libfreesrp

Example applications include osmocom_fft, osmocom_siggen, and osmocom_spectrum_sense.

By using the OsmoSDR block you can take advantage of a common software API in your application(s) independent of the underlying radio hardware. This package provides C++ header files, documentation, and Python3 wrappers to the library.

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inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

inspectrum supports the following file types:

 *.sigmf-meta, *.sigmf-data - Signal Metadata Format (SigMF) recordings
 *.cf32, *.cfile - Complex 32-bit floating point (GNURadio, osmocom_fft)
 *.cf64 - Complex 64-bit floating point samples
 *.cs16 - Complex 16-bit signed integer (BladeRF)
 *.cs8 - Complex 8-bit signed integer (HackRF)
 *.cu8 - Complex 8-bit unsigned integer (RTL-SDR)
 *.f32 - Real 32-bit floating point samples
 *.f64 - Real 64-bit floating point samples (MATLAB)
 *.s16 - Real 16-bit signed integer samples
 *.s8 - Real 8-bit signed integer samples
 *.u8 - Real 8-bit unsigned integer samples

Features:

• Large (100GB+) file support
• Spectrogram with zoom/pan
• Plots of amplitude, frequency, phase and IQ samples
• Cursors for measuring period, symbol rate and extracting symbols
• Export of selected time period, filtered samples and demodulated data

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Lime Suite is a collection of software supporting Lime Microsystems LMS7 RF transceiver based hardware such as the LimeSDR, LMS7002M UNITE board, or the Novena with LMS7 RF board.

This package contains the command line and GUI tools to control and update the hardware devices.

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OsmoSDR is a 100% Free Software based small form-factor inexpensive SDR (Software Defined Radio) project.

The hardware part of OsmoSDR brings information from an antenna connector to a USB plug.

This package is the software that provides control of the USB hardware and an API to pass data to software defined radio applications on the host.

This package contains a set of command line utilities:

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This is Quisk, a Software Defined Radio (SDR). You supply an antenna and a complex (I/Q) mixer to convert the radio spectrum to a low IF. Then send that IF to your computer using the sound card, Ethernet or USB. The Quisk software will read the I/Q data, tune it, filter it, demodulate it, and send the audio to headphones or speakers. Quisk has a microphone input and a key input so it can operate as a complete transceiver.

Quisk works with this hardware:

• SoftRock connected to the sound card
• Many other SDR's connected to the sound card
• SDR-IQ connected by USB
• Perseus connected by USB
• N2ADR hardware connected by Ethernet and IP
• HiQSDR hardware connected by Ethernet and IP
• The Hermes-Lite project at hermeslite.com
• Quisk can be used as a pan adapter, and can control some radios

Quisk is small and simple, and has been designed so that it is easy to change Quisk to suit your own hardware. Quisk rhymes with "brisk", and is QSK plus a few letters to make it easier to pronounce. QSK is a Q signal meaning full breakin CW operation, and Quisk has been designed for low latency. Quisk includes an input keying signal that can mute the audio and substitute a sidetone.

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The SoapyRemote project provides a client module and a server that make it possible on the client side to list and access hardware supported by SoapySDR modules on the server as if they were local modules.

This package contains the server.

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The SoapyAudio project provides a SoapySDR module for using Software Defined Radio devices that are connected through audio interfaces. It uses hamlib to provide control of tuning and other functions where available.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the audio module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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The Soapy HackRF project provides a SoapySDR hardware support module. Using this, any program using SoapySDR to interface to software defined radio hardware can make use of the open source HackRF device to transmit and receive.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the HackRF module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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The SoapyOsmo project provides SoapySDR hardware support modules using drivers in gr-osmosdr. Using this, any program using SoapySDR to interface to software defined radio hardware can make use of OsmoSDR, Mirics SDR, and RFSpace SDR devices.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the Mirics SDR module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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The Soapy Red Pitaya project provides a SoapySDR hardware support module. Using this, any program using SoapySDR to interface to software defined radio hardware can make use of the Red Pitaya HF channels to transmit and receive.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the Red Pitaya module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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The SoapyOsmo project provides SoapySDR hardware support modules using drivers in gr-osmosdr. Using this, any program using SoapySDR to interface to software defined radio hardware can make use of OsmoSDR, Mirics SDR, and RFSpace SDR devices.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the RFSpace module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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Both SoapySDR and the Universal Hardware Driver by Ettus Research projects provide libraries to access various software defined radio hardware through a common interface.

This SoapySDR hardware support module makes all UHD devices available to applications using SoapySDR. An interface in the other direction is available in the uhd-soapysdr package.

This is an empty dependency package that pulls in the UHD module for the default version of libsoapysdr.

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Host utilities for the Universal Hardware Driver for Ettus Research products.

The supported devices provide analog radio receiver and transmitter hardware along with digital interfaces for getting signals to and from a software defined radio running on the host computer.

This package includes the uhd_find_devices application to locate and configure attached peripherals, the uhd_usrp_probe application to display hardware configuration information and Doxygen generated documentation.

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