INSPECTRUM(1)

💖 NAME 💖

inspectrum — bestie's fave little tool for visualising captured radio signals ✨ like it literally turns your mystery radio data into something your eyeballs can vibe with 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, and it's mostly aimed at stuff that came off software-defined radio receivers 🎀

that's the whole thing. it looks at your signals. it's giving lab equipment but make it cute 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -r rate — the sample rate, in Hz 🫶 that's it, that's the number, no cap.
• file — so rn inspectrum can only read files with interleaved (complex) 32-bit floats 😭 like, that's the only format it fucks with. the good news? that's exactly the format that things like GNURadio or osmocom_fft spit out, so iykyk 🔥

🎀 FEATURES 🎀

• Spectrogram with zoom/pan — you can zoom in, you can pan around, you can stare at your signal like it's the main character 👑
• Large (multi-gigabyte) file support — yes bestie, multi-gigabyte. bring your chonkiest files, it's not scared 🌈

💜 CONTACT 💜

#inspectrum on freenode IRC — come thru, say hi 🧚

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• osmocom-fft(1) — the sibling, the coworker, the other half of the pipeline 💖

no cap, if your file isn't interleaved complex 32-bit floats, this tool is gonna look at you like 💀 — convert first, then come back, okay? 🍓

that's a wrap, bestie ✨ this one's from the INSPECTRUM manual, section 1 (User Commands), dated Oct 2015 — slay, periodt 💅👑