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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
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