What SDR software do you use?

What is your go-to SDR software?

I'm thinking about pitching an application for the Digilent 1x1 USB Software-Defined Radio Platform RoadTest Review. Part of my research is to investigate what software is available for SDR. Here are some SDR application I have used GQRX, CubicSDR and GNURadio. I dabbled in RTL-SDR some two years ago. I recall at that time SDR#(SDRSharp) was popular but I seem to recall it was limited to Windows PC's. Being a Linux user Windows only applications are not something I look at.

I would like to investigate a few SDR applications but avoid the rabbit holes, application you discover after much research they are no longer supported.

What is your software pick for SDR? In your response can you indicate your operating system preference and what frequency band you focus your SDR efforts on? Three responses:

What SDR application?
What operating system?
What frequency band of interest?

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jomoenginer over 4 years ago

The one I see pop up in Job Descriptions and used in certain professional applications is REDHAWK .
https://redhawksdr.org/

Also, you might want to reference the Getting Started Guide to see if they have a suggested SDR software to start with.
https://kb.ettus.com/B200/B210/B200mini/B205mini_Getting_Started_Guides

Looking at the Digilent product page, there is a link to some SDR tutorials from gnuradio,org.
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/b205mini/start

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Tutorials

There is one thing to note with the USRP B205mini-i, since they are using the older Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX150 FPGA, it is not supported with the newer design tools from Xilinx like Vivado or Vitis. You have to use Xilinx ISE which technically is not supported on Windows 10 outside of running in a virtual machine. I believe the canned VM that Xilinx provides with the tools already installed has CentOS 6.
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