rtl-sdr - an I/Q recorder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers

       This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

       Copyright (c) 2013 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>

       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
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       (at your option) any later version.

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       License for more details.

RTL-SDR                                               0.5.0                                           rtl_sdr(1)

       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.

       In-Phase and Quadrature Phase data can  faithfully  represent  all  of  the  information  in  a  band  of
       frequencies centered on a carrier signal frequency.

       Much software is available for the RTL2832. Most of the user-level packages rely on the librtlsdr library
       which  comes  as  part of the rtl-sdr codebase. This codebase contains both the library itself and also a
       number of command line tools such as rtl_test, rtl_sdr, rtl_tcp, and rtl_fm. These command line tools use
       the library to test for the existence of RTL2832 devices and to perform basic data transfer functions  to
       and from the device.

       Because  most of the RTL2832 devices are connected using USB, the librtlsdr library depends on the libusb
       library to communicate with the device.

       Example: To tune to 392.0 MHz, and set the sample-rate to 1.8 MS/s, use:
               ./rtl_sdr /tmp/capture.bin -s 1.8e6 -f 392e6

       to record samples to a file or to forward the data to a fifo.

       If  the  device  can't be opened, make sure you have the appropriate rights to access the device (install
       udev-rules from the repository, or run it as root).

       rtl-sdr - an I/Q recorder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers

       -f frequency_to_tune_to [Hz]

       -s samplerate (default: 2048000 Hz)

       -d device_index (default: 0)

       -g gain (default: 0 for auto)

       -b output_block_size (default: 16 * 16384)

       -n number of samples to read (default: 0, infinite)

       -S force sync output (default: async)

       tfilename
               (a '-' dumps samples to stdout)

gnuradio(1)

       RTL-SDR wiki documentation: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

       Other rtl-sdr programs:

       rtl_adsb(1), rtl_eeprom(1), rtl_fm(1), rtl_tcp(1), rtl_test(1)

rtl_adsb[-ffreq][OPTIONS][outputfile]

       This program captures information from a band of frequencies and outputs the data in  a  form  useful  to
       other software radio programs.