how to do autonomous data export
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 5:52 am
Dear Forum,
Up until now I have mainly interacted with SDRs through a GUI, however using an RSP2 I am now trying to see if there's a way to monitor certain frequencies and export any relevant data in some kind of unattended way. I don't as yet know what characteristics can be exported but I'd like to set up an autonomous monitoring station that will output the noise levels on a few frequencies in the amateur radio bands and save them as a data file to disk. Once I have that I can run gnuplot to make pretty graphs so I can see what the noise levels were across the day.
For example I'd like to monitor 3.500MHz, 3.600MHz and 3.700MHz (80m band). Take a small sample once every 5 minutes, get the signal and noise level figures and then save that to an ASCII file.
Would that be difficult to do?
Is there perhaps a guide somewhere that can help a noob in this area get started?
Btw, I'm fluent (enough) with C and Java.
Up until now I have mainly interacted with SDRs through a GUI, however using an RSP2 I am now trying to see if there's a way to monitor certain frequencies and export any relevant data in some kind of unattended way. I don't as yet know what characteristics can be exported but I'd like to set up an autonomous monitoring station that will output the noise levels on a few frequencies in the amateur radio bands and save them as a data file to disk. Once I have that I can run gnuplot to make pretty graphs so I can see what the noise levels were across the day.
For example I'd like to monitor 3.500MHz, 3.600MHz and 3.700MHz (80m band). Take a small sample once every 5 minutes, get the signal and noise level figures and then save that to an ASCII file.
Would that be difficult to do?
Is there perhaps a guide somewhere that can help a noob in this area get started?
Btw, I'm fluent (enough) with C and Java.