CloudACM – Page 34 – Autonomous Computational Machines

RTL-SDR Radio Scanner

December 4, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll be giving some background and install steps on RTL-SDR. SDR stands for software defined radio and has been in use since the 1970s. Traditional radio processing is handled by hardware components like oscillators, regulators, and mixers. SDR replaces these functions with digital computer processing. RTL-SDR is a device that was originally designed to receive digital television transmissions, namely DVB-T TV using the RTL2832U chipset. The device is typically contained in a USB dongle. The RTL2832U chipset…

Decoding DTMF with MultiMon-NG

November 27, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

Dual Tone Multi Frequency signaling, commonly referred to as DTMF, is mainly used for phone dialing systems. But this isn’t the only use for DTMF signaling. Another common use is security access systems. In this post, I’ll be covering how to decode DTMF using MultiMon-NG. SoX will be used to record the DTMF signals generated on cell phones and keyless entry systems. I’ll be using a high gain directional microphone with a secondary microphone to cancel out background noise. SoX…

Sonic data analysis with SoX

November 20, 2017 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll be using SoX to export audio to data values that can be processed outside the audio realm. The example I’ll use here is a breif recording that will be plotted with GNUPlot. SoX and other programs provide spectrograms, which are frequency domain images of audio files. I’ll be using GNUPlot to create an image of an audio file in the time domain. First, I’ll use this command to convert the audio wav file into a text…