SDR# SDR# and Frequency Search/Scan

[TailGator911]

I've had the cheapie RTL and SDR# for about a year and play with it occasionally, but the hunt and peck gets tedious sometimes and I lose interest. I wished it had a scan feature, and then I found that on some Russian site and downloaded it, but cannot seem to get it to work for me as I would like it to.

Questions:

1) What is the best frequency scanning add-on?
a) I think I already have it, the Russian version, but is that the only one and is
there a better one available?

2) What is the best search add-on (with custom parameters)?
b) is this also in the Russian version? Or a separate add-on? Any links appreciated.

3) Can you lock out birdies and handshake frequencies when search scanning a set parameter of frequencies?

c) I search a lot in the uhf band 450-468mhz and there are a lot of noisy spikes throughout, wondering if there is a way to skip over them somehow. In my area, there is a lot of traffic in the uhf business band from a nearby mall and shopping area and the common security band (460+) is always busy with very interesting radio traffic, but there are so many spikes from faxes, pagers, control channels, etc, that I do not see a search scan able to accomplish much if it stops on all of that noise. Appreciate some tips from some of you who use SDR# to search out frequencies in your area. I'm still a noob at this Thanks much -


JD
kf4anc

 

[DRL-XM43]

I've had the cheapie RTL and SDR# for about a year and play with it occasionally, but the hunt and peck gets tedious sometimes and I lose interest. I wished it had a scan feature, and then I found that on some Russian site and downloaded it, but cannot seem to get it to work for me as I would like it to.

Questions:

1) What is the best frequency scanning add-on?
a) I think I already have it, the Russian version, but is that the only one and is
there a better one available?

2) What is the best search add-on (with custom parameters)?
b) is this also in the Russian version? Or a separate add-on? Any links appreciated.

3) Can you lock out birdies and handshake frequencies when search scanning a set parameter of frequencies?

c) I search a lot in the uhf band 450-468mhz and there are a lot of noisy spikes throughout, wondering if there is a way to skip over them somehow. In my area, there is a lot of traffic in the uhf business band from a nearby mall and shopping area and the common security band (460+) is always busy with very interesting radio traffic, but there are so many spikes from faxes, pagers, control channels, etc, that I do not see a search scan able to accomplish much if it stops on all of that noise. Appreciate some tips from some of you who use SDR# to search out frequencies in your area. I'm still a noob at this Thanks much -


JD
kf4anc

The fast scanner allows you to skip unwanted frequencies, you click on them and they turn red.

If your scan range is very wide this is difficult because the individual frequency bars are very small. The solution is to have scan with less range perhaps break the scans up to smaller chunks,

I use the Russian plugin fast scanner.

 

[TailGator911]

Ahh thanks for that. So you just click on the spikes you don't want, that is good to know. I'm going to make sure I have the Russian fast scanner plugin. I just know it is Russian, but do not know if it is the fast scanner.

Nope, mine reads Frequency Manager + Scan. Where do I find this Russian Fast Scanner?

On second thought, will I be accused of collusion with the Russians?? Mercy sakes.

 

[DRL-XM43]

here is an example with my unwanted freqs "clicked on" (Bottom pane) you can also raise the red threshold line up to weed out weak interference.