imonitorit
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Is there any software that allows you to have the SDR perform like a scanner? Or are you stuck just monitoring one frequency at a time?
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.
All of this stuff is still a work in progress, but it conceivably "could" replace a scanner. I think in some way, shape, or form it is the future of our hobby
You're right, because it's going to become the only way to continue monitoring public safety services in the future. The industy's move to encryption, and the anti-decrypying laws in America, mean scanner manufacturers aren't going to be able to produce receivers that do what anyone wants any more. That's just going to end up driving the hobby underground in the sense that the only way to continue it will be to use a hacker mentality. A $17 SDR dongle running on software that emulates scanner functionality, decrypted by software developed somewhere outside of America and distributed via bitorrent appears to be the inevitable future.