Qt-DAB is software for listening to terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB and DAB+).
Qt-DAB is designed to be used with different SDR devices. A simple and clean interface is used and Qt-DAB-6.9 has support for a DABsticks, all models of the SDRplay, Airspy, HackRF, LimeSDR, Adalm Pluto etc.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Qt-DAB supports input device:
- SDR DAB sticks (RTL2838U or similar), with separate libraries for the V3 and V4 versions of the stick.
- All SDRplay SDR models (RSP I, RSP 1A and 1B, RSP II, RSP Duo, RSP Dx and RSPDxR2), with separate entries for the v2 and v3 library.
- HACKRF One.
- Airspy, including Airspy mini.
- LimeSDR.
- Adalm Pluto.
- untested UHD.
- Soapy, a renewed Soapy interface driver is even able to handle other samplerates than the required 2048000 (limited to the range 2000000 .. 4000000).
- ExtIO (experimental, Windows only).
- input from servers. support for a spyServer (both 8 bit and a 16 bit version) and an rtl_tcp server.
- Always supported input from files:
- prerecorded dump (
.raw,.iq, ‘.sdr`, and ‘.uff’ (xml)) files,
- prerecorded dump (
- with, obviously, the possibility of generating such files from the input.
- Qt-DAB supports so-called Favorites (i.e. channel, service pairs) for easy switching between services in different ensembles.
- Qt-DAB recognizes and interprets TII (Transmitter Identification Information) data of – if the received signal is from multiple transmitters – all detectable transmitters, can be made visible simultaneously, and displays the transmitters on a map. A separate tool is available to download the required database.
- Qt-DAB allows running an arbitrary amount of services from the current ensemble as background service. with the output sent to a file.
- Qt-DAB offers options to select other bands, i.e. the L-Band, or channel descriptions from a user provided file and it supports obsolete modes (Mode II and Mode IV).
- Cross-platform software – runs under Linux, Raspberry Pi, macOS, and Windows.
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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