RTLSDR programming 101

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/RTLSDR

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  • LTE-Cell-Scanner

    LTE SDR cell scanner optimized to work with very low performance RF front ends (8bit A/D, 20dB noise figure) (by Evrytania)

  • librtlsdr

    Software to turn the RTL2832U into an SDR

  • The librtlsdr repository has source code for reading raw IQ values and doing stuff like FM demodulation. https://github.com/steve-m/librtlsdr/blob/master/src/rtl_fm.c.

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  • SDRPlusPlus

    Cross-Platform SDR Software

  • SDR++ has DSP decoding modules written in C++. https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus/tree/master/decoder_modules. These cover a variety of analogue and digital decoding schemes.

  • qt-dab

    Qt-DAB, a general software DAB (DAB+) decoder with a (slight) focus on showing the signal

  • If you are interested, DAB radio has DSP projects written in C/C++. qt-dab: https://github.com/JvanKatwijk/qt-dab/tree/master/src.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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