Playing around with gqrx

The gqrx tool is an open source Software-Defined Radio (SDR) receiver powered by the GNU radio and the Qt graphical toolkit.

It has the following features:

• Discovers devices connected to a computer
• Processes I/Q data
• AM, SSB, CW, FM-N, and FM-W (mono and stereo) demodulators
• Records and plays back audio to/from the WAV file
• Records and plays back raw baseband data
• Streams audio output over UDP

In this recipe, we will cover the basics of gqrx.

How to do it...

The following is the recipe to use gqrx:

1. Install gqrx using the following command:

apt install gqrx  

2. Run the tool by typing gqrx.
3. Choose your device from the drop-down menu in the window that opens and click OK:

4. In the GQRX application...