Radio BenchBeta

Hardware

Bring your own radio.

Add an SDR dongle to your existing HF transceiver and Radio Bench unlocks your station's potential. Profile-aware controls give every device the right knobs in the right order.

  • Airspy HF+

    USB

    Attenuation, LNA/preamp, and AGC on supported firmware.

  • RTL-SDR

    USB

    Direct sampling, bias-tee, digital AGC, and tuner gain.

  • RTL-TCP

    NETWORK

    Remote dongles over the network with buffered reads.

  • SpyServer

    NETWORK

    Connect to SpyServer streams from anywhere.

  • IQ WAV

    FILE

    Replay stereo IQ captures in 16-bit PCM or 32-bit float formats.

This is the currently tested-on-the-bench list, not a ceiling: device profiles are added as they are tested. Rig control (frequency, mode, PTT, CW keying) covers hundreds of transceivers via the amazing Hamlib project.