Hello, I finally found time to test the super software from Christophe Jacquet RDSSurveyvor! I built a small interface to adapt the output of my Sony RDS decoder SB-920 to my PC sound card. Once completed and connected inside the tuner I plugged the audio cable with jack 3.5 to the line input of my sound card. It works equally well under windows, linux or macosx, why you need is Java installed.
Your options:
java -jar rdssurveyor-0.6.jar -h
RDS Surveyor – (C) Christophe Jacquet, 2009-2010.
Unknown argument: -h
Arguments:
-inaudio Use sound card audio as input
-inbinfile <file> Use the given binary file as input
-inbinstrfile <file> Use the given binary string file as input
-inaudiofile <file> Use the given audio file as input
-ingrouphexfile <file> Use the given group-level file as input
-inv4l <device> Reads from Video4Linux device, e.g. /dev/radio
-invert / -noinvert Force bit inversion (default: auto-detect
-outbinfile <file> Write bitstream to binary file (if applicable)
-outgrouphexfile <file> Write groups to file (in hexadecimal)
-nogui Do not show the graphical user interface
-noconsole No console analysis
In my case I choose
java -jar rdssurveyor-0.6.jar -inaudio (The program selected by default the first sound card.)
If all are ok you can see the gui software:
You can see all informations you need for starting to find your best dx in FM.
Functions are very basic for this moment, I ask Christophe to have more functions and possibilities.
When you launch the softare a log fil is create in my case rdslog_20100615_221006.rds
You download this file and play again in Rds surveyvor by the command :
java -jar rdssurveyor-0.6.jar -inbinfile rdslog_20100615_221006.rds
Download this file sample rds
The advantages of Rds Surveyvor over RDSS, RDS decoder and RDSDX software:
If you don’t know software watch an old article on these 3 software Comparison Software
- For me the best advantage of this software is that it is « open source ».
- The interface between the receiver and your computer is very simple to do.
- A big advantage is that it can run on any system (win, linux, mac …)
- No need to have serial port! You can use your software on your notebook, netbook … no need to have an old DOS laptop
- You can replay your reception with log file system. Ideal for meteor-scatter.
- You can decode multiple RDS feed if you have mutliple sound card !
Conclusion
I found the software very well done and above all very slight. I compare PI decoding with SB920 tuner, the software is quick faster to decode it. I prepared a list of feature request to make the software useful for every self-respecting dxer:)
Christophe is ready to listen and consider all your requests, buggies, greeting …
To get this great work rds-surveyor
