# Widebandspectrum for FunCube Dongle

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widebandspectrum-for-funcube-dongle/221848>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widebandspectrum-for-funcube-dongle/221848 "2012-08-01T23:27:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widebandspectrum-for-funcube-dongle/221848/1 "2012-08-01T23:27:18Z")

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Hello List, hello funcubers,

participating a long time of the list and doing my own experiments with  
gnuradio, usrp and funcube as well as RTL, i want to give a little back  
to the list now.

I adopted the usrp\_spectrum\_sense.py for funcube to get a poor mans  
spectrum scope with funcube in the range of 65 MHz to 1.7 GHz.

Ok, funcube has some gaps; the best known is between 1.1 and 1.2 GHz.

You will find the python procedure and an English and German  
documentation as well as a README.txt at

[http://homepages.hs-bremen.de/~hartje/pub/2012/fcd\_wideband\_spectrum/index.html](http://homepages.hs-bremen.de/~hartje/pub/2012/fcd_wideband_spectrum/index.html)

I tried this with novel gnuradio only on Linux – is there anyone trying  
it for the windows precompiled gnuradio?  
nice to hear any comments on this. Start with README.txt.

BTW i held a 90 min talk on gnuradio for hamradio applications during  
the hamradio exhibition and conference end of June 2012 in  
Friedrichshafen, Bodensee, Germany. You will find the German foils and  
some of the explained grc examples at

[http://homepages.hs-bremen.de/~hartje/pub/2012/hamradio/gnuradio/index.html](http://homepages.hs-bremen.de/~hartje/pub/2012/hamradio/gnuradio/index.html)

Hope you enjoy it

## Michael H., DK5HH

Dr.-Ing. Michael H.  
Labor Hochspannungstechnik / Labor elektrische Messtechnik  
Hochschule Bremen  
Neustadtswall 30; D-28199 Bremen  
Tel +49 421 5905-3444 FAX +49 421 5905-3476

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**Author:** ![teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@teddio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teddio)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/widebandspectrum-for-funcube-dongle/221848/2 "2012-08-02T02:26:48Z")

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael H.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> the hamradio exhibition and conference end of June 2012 in  
> Labor Hochspannungstechnik / Labor elektrische Messtechnik  
> Hochschule Bremen  
> Neustadtswall 30; D-28199 Bremen  
> Tel +49 421 5905-3444 FAX +49 421 5905-3476

That’s great, Michael, thanks for sharing!

Tom