[RFI] SDR software that displays actual waveform of received signal????

N4ZR n4zr at comcast.net
Mon Feb 3 11:39:25 EST 2020


There's an app called SoundcardScope, available free on the net for 
non-commercial use,that may do what you want.

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On 2/3/2020 8:24 AM, Don Kirk wrote:
> I track down a lot of sources of RFI, and one tool I'm missing is SDR
> software that can actually display the waveform of the noise I'm receiving
> (amplitude vs time like an oscilloscope).  I use various SDR software but
> they only display the spectrum plot and the waterfall plot.  I'm looking
> for something that captures more of what you would capture on an
> Oscilloscope(something that displays the received signal in which Amplitude
> vs. Time is plotted over lets say a 20 mS time period).
>
> I say 20 milli-second time period because this is the time period that
> would capture a full cycle of 60 hertz power plus a little extra time, and
> this is also the time period that the Radar Engineers model 243 captures so
> I could hopefully better correlate my findings with what the local power
> company sees using their model 243.
>
> Appreciate someone pointing me toward SDR software that can accomplish this
> task, especially if I can use it with an RTL-SDR receiver.  I believe I
> have seen SDR software that can accomplish this, but don't recall what
> software it was, and if it would work with an RTL-SDR receiver.
>
> Don (wd8dsb)
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