What is Reddit's opinion of RF Analyzer?

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This is actually a tablet called "Nvidia Shield". No phone hardware in there, but a decent screen and WiFi and you can connect a Realtek SDR to the USB-port and use it together with RF-Analyzer which is quite neat too.

I'm okay with it. I got it for a really good price, and because I didn't want to use it with the original Nvidia Firmware (which requires agreeing to a stupid, game streaming contract of theirs) I flashed it with Cyanogenmod, which is something like a stock, no extra frills, entirely open-source version of Android.

Sometimes, at about weekly intervals, it freezes and needs to be reset. That's annoying, but I'm okay with it for the price.

Honestly, if you want something good and usable and you aren't on a student budget like me, get a Google Nexus phone or tablet (whatever you prefer) and be done with it.

>I'm a grumpy luddite being dragged kicking and screaming into the present, so is it a steep learning curve on using a smart phone?

There are some new concepts when coming from a desktop. Some are intuitive, some are not:

• press long (not right) for context menu pretty much anywhere
• although there is of course a file-system beneath all that, data exhange between apps often works via "sharing", aka, every app announces what it can handle and other apps can "share" that data then. E.g. - I take a photo, and then "share" it to the eMail-app and that sends it out via mail then.
• prepare to recharge every evening
• wet fingers/rain and touch screens don't mix too well.
• typing on touch - I have never gotten used to that. I got myself a cheap bluetooth keyboard for when I'm portable for a longer period of time.
• gloves don't work either
• apps don't get closed, the phone manages memory magically in the background and closes what you use least

> something I've not seen before.

And yet you kept correcting me.

>Writing a user space driver that uses the raw USB kernel driver is pretty fucking insane and impressive.

Damn amazing, and yet it works.

Anyone use a RF spectrum analyser in the field to look for gaps/interfernce sources?

First DDG search found these, hardware (26$) and android software

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantz_it.rfanalyzer&hl=en

and

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

thanks, i've been using RF Analyzer defiantly think its more user friendly then SDRSharp on the laptop.

What else can I do with the SDR and Android? it looks like i can do SSTV from Robo36?

RF Analyzer works with both a local RTL-SDR through an OTG cable, and RTL-TCP.

This might be about the cheapest you can go:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantz_it.rfanalyzer

An OTG cable

A RTL SDR dongle

Why not use a native Android app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantz_it.rfanalyzer