gqrx(1)

Software Defined Radio GUI application

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Description

GQRX

NAME

gqrx - Software Defined Radio GUI application

DESCRIPTION

Gqrx is a software defined radio (SDR) receiver implemented using GNU Radio and the Qt GUI toolkit. It works with hardware supported by gr-osmosdr, including Funcube Dongle, RTL-SDR, Airspy, HackRF, BladeRF, RFSpace, USRP and SoapySDR.

Gqrx can operate as an AM/FM/SSB receiver with audio output or as an FFT-only instrument. There are also various hooks for interacting with external applications using network sockets.

It is strongly recommended to run the volk_profile utility before running gqrx. This will detect and enable processor-specific optimisations and will in many cases give a significant performance boost.

The first time you start gqrx it will open a device configuration dialog. Supported devices that are connected to the computer are discovered automatically and you can select any of them in the drop-down list.

If you don’t see your device listed in the drop-down list it could be because:

The driver has not been included in a binary distribution

The udev rule has not been properly configured

Linux kernel driver is blocking access to the device

You can test your device using device specific tools, such as rtl_test, airspy_rx, hackrf_transfer, qthid, etc.

Gqrx supports multiple configurations and sessions if you have several devices or if you want to use the same device under different configurations. You can load a configuration from the GUI or using the -c command line argument.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Display the help page

-s, --style style

Use the given style (fusion, windows)

-l, --list

List existing configurations

-c, --conf file

Start with a specific configuration file

-e, --edit

Edit the configuration file before using it

-r, --reset

Reset the configuration file

SEE ALSO

https://gqrx.dk/