Qt-DAB is a graphical receiver for terrestrial DAB and DAB+ broadcasts. It is designed to work with a wide variety of software defined radio hardware while also providing detailed views of the received signal and DAB network.
The application can be used simply to listen to digital radio, but its service management, TII and signal-analysis facilities make it useful for investigating transmitters and reception conditions. It can also work with recorded I/Q data rather than a live receiver.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Receives DAB and DAB+ digital radio services.
- Supports RTL-SDR DAB sticks including commonly used receiver variants.
- Supports SDRplay receivers, Airspy, HackRF, LimeSDR and ADALM-Pluto hardware.
- Can access additional receivers through SoapySDR.
- Supports network input from SpyServer and rtl_tcp servers.
- Reads several recorded raw and structured I/Q formats.
- Can create recordings of incoming SDR samples for later analysis.
- Supports large BW64 recordings beyond the normal RIFF file-size limit.
- Favourite channel and service pairs allow quick switching between ensembles.
- Recognises Transmitter Identification Information from multiple transmitters.
- Detected transmitters can be displayed together on a map.
- Provides service list management and background service processing.
- Supports packet data services and Journaline information.
- Includes scanning controls for surveying available DAB channels.
- Signal displays expose spectrum and other reception information.
- Supports alternative channel plans and additional DAB transmission modes.
Website: github.com/JvanKatwijk/qt-dab
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Developer: JvanKatwijk
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Qt-DAB is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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