Qt-DAB is a DAB decoder

Qt-DAB is software for listening to terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB and DAB+).

Qt-DAB is designed to be used with different SDR devices. A simple and clean interface is used and Qt-DAB-6.9 has support for a DABsticks, all models of the SDRplay, Airspy, HackRF, LimeSDR, Adalm Pluto etc.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Qt-DAB supports input device:
  • SDR DAB sticks (RTL2838U or similar), with separate libraries for the V3 and V4 versions of the stick.
  • All SDRplay SDR models (RSP I, RSP 1A and 1B, RSP II, RSP Duo, RSP Dx and RSPDxR2), with separate entries for the v2 and v3 library.
  • HACKRF One.
  • Airspy, including Airspy mini.
  • LimeSDR.
  • Adalm Pluto.
  • untested UHD.
  • Soapy, a renewed Soapy interface driver is even able to handle other samplerates than the required 2048000 (limited to the range 2000000 .. 4000000).
  • ExtIO (experimental, Windows only).
  • input from servers. support for a spyServer (both 8 bit and a 16 bit version) and an rtl_tcp server.
• Always supported input from files:
  • prerecorded dump (.raw, .iq, ‘.sdr`, and ‘.uff’ (xml)) files,
• with, obviously, the possibility of generating such files from the input.
• Qt-DAB supports so-called Favorites (i.e. channel, service pairs) for easy switching between services in different ensembles.
• Qt-DAB recognizes and interprets TII (Transmitter Identification Information) data of – if the received signal is from multiple transmitters – all detectable transmitters, can be made visible simultaneously, and displays the transmitters on a map. A separate tool is available to download the required database.
• Qt-DAB allows running an arbitrary amount of services from the current ensemble as background service. with the output sent to a file.
• Qt-DAB offers options to select other bands, i.e. the L-Band, or channel descriptions from a user provided file and it supports obsolete modes (Mode II and Mode IV).
• Cross-platform software – runs under Linux, Raspberry Pi, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/JvanKatwijk/qt-dab
Support:
Developer: JvanKatwijk
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Qt-DAB is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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