Slightly off topic of GNURadio, but of interest to SDR users is this tool that will allow easy management of Frequency Manager Bookmarks in the excellent SDR reciever program SDR++[1].
We all love the open source nature of SDR’s and can never have enough ‘tools’ to use, especially as far as receiver software goes.
One such receiver is SDR++, I have found that I really like its organization and layout. SDR++ is multi-platform and runs on Windows without having to run an installer!
Perhaps the biggest user issue with SDR++ is in its handling of frequency lists or bookmarks. SDR++ stores bookmarks in a JSON file format, which is difficult to edit manually. Direct entry of bookmarks in SDR++ is possible, but (IMHO) it takes too many mouse clicks to add a single frequency.
To ease this pain, I wrote a Python script that converts lists of bookmarks saved in an XLSX spreadsheet directly into an SDR++ compatible “frequency_manager_config.json” file, which can be used directly with SDR++. This created file replaces the default “frequency_manager_config.json” that is in the SDR++ root directory.
Full details and documentation are available on GitHub [2].
Enjoy. :-)
References:
[1] Source: https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus
Releases: https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus/releases
[2] Python conversion script source: https://github.com/Hagtronics/SDRpp-FrequencyManager-Spreadsheet-Tool
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