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:

1. 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:

2. 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:

3. It will take some time to see a sweep of frequencies, and then we will see the result in graphical format:

If the application stops responding...