Hands-on with RTLSDR scanner
RTLSDR scanner is a cross-platform GUI that can be used for spectrum analysis. It will scan the given frequency range and display the output in a spectrogram.
How to do it...
Here is the recipe to run rtlsdr-scanner
:
- We connect RTLSDR to the system and start the scanner using the command:
rtlsdr-scanner
The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:
- We should see a new window open, showing the GUI interface of the tool; here we can simply enter the frequency range on which we want to perform the scan and click on
Start
scan:
- It will take some time to see a sweep of frequencies, and then we will see the result in graphical format:
Note
If the application stops responding, it is recommended you lower the range and choose Single
as the Mode
instead of continuous.