[time-nuts] Sound Card Spectrum Analyzer

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Fri Feb 19 00:38:14 UTC 2010


Baudline only uses 16 bit samples a significant limitation if one has a 
high end sound card.

Bruce

John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> For Linux (and I think some other *nixes) check out Baudline 
> (http://www.baudline.com).  It's free but not open source.  It's a 
> general purpose audio spectrum analyzer tool, not aimed at ham radio.
>
> John
> ----
>
> Bob Camp said the following on 02/18/2010 06:18 PM:
>> Hi
>>
>> Assuming I have a decent sound card, and a computer, the next thing I 
>> need is software. If I want:
>>
>> Required:
>>
>> 1) non- commercial 2) 1 Hz normalization
>> 3) good low frequency processing (decimation ahead of the fft)
>> 4) low cost
>>
>> Much preferred:
>>
>> 5) a non-evil OS 6) Rational performance on a non-quad core system
>> 7) free
>> 8) rational calibration 9) scope view.
>> 10) reasonable graphics
>> 11) active support by the author
>>
>> The application is measuring phase noise. That what makes 2 & 3 pop 
>> up on the list.
>> I've looked at a lot of programs and they all seem to be pretty 
>> slick. The ones I've looked at so far don't quite hit the mark for 
>> phase noise. I'm pretty sure that there are others on the list who 
>> have dug into this same issue already.
>>
>> Bob
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