HDSDR is a freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, its a popular general purpose multimode program for Windows that supports various SDRs including the RTL-SDR. Version 2.80 (beta) of HDSDR was released a few days ago and brings with it a few GUI and feature updates.
Here are the changes :
Version 2.80 Beta11 (August 21, 2018)
- fully integrated band management (ITU 1+2+3)
- FreqMgr: HFCC frequency list (import)
- FreqMgr: Perseus frequency list (import)
- FreqMgr: FindMatch consider Time, AutoFindMatch
- band selection / frequency step on main window
- Misc option: Auto-LO
- Misc option: keep Tune when LO is changed
- Auto Band Zoom (Options -> Visualization -> RF)
- Mouse Wheel option "Zoom RF"
- Forwards button for WAV files
- WAV buttons << and >> operate without WAV file
{ left click: Band +/- } { right click: Tune +/- step }
- auto subdirectories for recording
- more options for digital mode application (Options -> DigiMode Settings)
- more command line options (-lo, -tune, -mode, -rec with recording time)
- drag and drop for wav files
- split for TX (SDR-TX only!)
- slow speed for AF display
- Autosave AF waterfall {CTRL+Shift+X}
Also as per rtl-sdr.com :
- GUI buttons updated to a more modern and cleaner look
- Improved friendliness to blind users during IQ recording playback
- A better IQ file player with the ability to loop over a certain time frame
- Improved snap to frequency option
- Improved LO tuning with an "autochange LO if necessary" option
- The ability to sort IQ recordings by date
- Ham/broadcast band spectrum identifiers added
- Ability to import the HFCC frequency list into the frequency manager
HDSDR Version 2.80 (beta) can be downloaded from :