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PROGRAM:

NAME


rtl_power: - wideband spectrum monitor utility

DESCRIPTION


Uses a re-purposed DVB-T receiver as a software defined radio to receive signals in I/Q
data form. Written for and incorporated in the osmocom rtl-sdr project.

USAGE


rtl_power, a simple FFT logger for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers

This tool gathers signal data over a very wide area of the frequency spectrum, and then
that data can be used to find active areas of the spectrum.

Use: rtl_power -f freq_range [-options] [filename]

-f lower:upper:bin_size [Hz]

(bin size is a maximum, smaller more convenient bins

will be used.
valid range 1Hz - 2.8MHz)

[-i integration_interval (default: 10 seconds)]

(buggy if a full sweep takes longer than the interval)

[-1 enables single-shot mode (default: off)] [-e exit_timer (default: off/0)] [-d
device_index (default: 0)] [-g tuner_gain (default: automatic)] [-p ppm_error
(default: 0)] filename (a '-' dumps samples to stdout)

(omitting the filename also uses stdout)

Experimental options:
[-w window (default: rectangle)]

(hamming, blackman, blackman-harris, hann-poisson, bartlett, youssef)

[-c crop_percent (default: 0%, recommended: 20%-50%)]

(discards data at the edges, 100% discards everything) (has no effect for bins
larger than 1MHz)

[-F fir_size (default: disabled)]

(enables low-leakage downsample filter,

fir_size can be 0 or 9.
0 has bad roll off,

try with '-c 50%')

[-P enables peak hold (default: off)] [-D enable direct sampling (default: off)]
[-O enable offset tuning (default: off)]

CSV FFT output columns:
date, time, Hz low, Hz high, Hz step, samples, dbm, dbm, ...

EXAMPLES


rtl_power -f 88M:108M:125k fm_stations.csv

(creates 160 bins across the FM band,

individual stations should be visible)

rtl_power -f 100M:1G:1M -i 5m -1 survey.csv

(a five minute low res scan of nearly everything)

rtl_power -f ... -i 15m -1 log.csv

(integrate for 15 minutes and exit afterwards)

rtl_power -f ... -e 1h | gzip > log.csv.gz

(collect data for one hour and compress it on the fly)

Convert CSV to a waterfall graphic with:
http://kmkeen.com/tmp/heatmap.py.txt

rtl_power, a simple FFT logger for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers

Use: rtl_power -f freq_range [-options] [filename]

-f lower:upper:bin_size [Hz]

(bin size is a maximum, smaller more convenient bins

will be used.
valid range 1Hz - 2.8MHz)

[-i integration_interval (default: 10 seconds)]

(buggy if a full sweep takes longer than the interval)

[-1 enables single-shot mode (default: off)] [-e exit_timer (default: off/0)] [-d
device_index (default: 0)] [-g tuner_gain (default: automatic)] [-p ppm_error
(default: 0)] filename (a '-' dumps samples to stdout)

(omitting the filename also uses stdout)

Experimental options:
[-w window (default: rectangle)]

(hamming, blackman, blackman-harris, hann-poisson, bartlett, youssef)

[-c crop_percent (default: 0%, recommended: 20%-50%)]

(discards data at the edges, 100% discards everything) (has no effect for bins
larger than 1MHz)

[-F fir_size (default: disabled)]

(enables low-leakage downsample filter,

fir_size can be 0 or 9.
0 has bad roll off,

try with '-c 50%')

[-P enables peak hold (default: off)] [-D enable direct sampling (default: off)]
[-O enable offset tuning (default: off)]

CSV FFT output columns:
date, time, Hz low, Hz high, Hz step, samples, dbm, dbm, ...

rtl_power -f 88M:108M:125k fm_stations.csv

(creates 160 bins across the FM band,

individual stations should be visible)

rtl_power -f 100M:1G:1M -i 5m -1 survey.csv

(a five minute low res scan of nearly everything)

rtl_power -f ... -i 15m -1 log.csv

(integrate for 15 minutes and exit afterwards)

rtl_power -f ... -e 1h | gzip > log.csv.gz

(collect data for one hour and compress it on the fly)

Convert CSV to a waterfall graphic with:
http://kmkeen.com/tmp/heatmap.py.txt

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