NAME¶

hackrf_transfer - file based transmit and receive sdr

DESCRIPTION¶

The HackRF project started by Michael Ossmann and Jared Boone to build software radio peripheral using Free Software and Free Hardware design. Care was taken to only use electronic components with published documentation (no NDAs!) and to avoid software libraries without open source licenses.

Jawbreaker is the first complete HackRF platform, a wideband software radio transceiver with a USB interface.

This application lets the user receive data from RF and transmit data to RF.

SYNOPSIS¶

hackrf_transfer [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS¶

-h # this help

[-d serial_number] # Serial number of desired HackRF.

-r <filename> # Receive data into file (use '-' for stdout).

-t <filename> # Transmit data from file (use '-' for stdin).

-w # Receive data into file with WAV header and automatic name.

# This is for SDR# compatibility and may not work with other software.

[-f set_freq_hz] # Set Freq in Hz [1MHz to 6000MHz supported, 0MHz to 7250MHz forceable].

[-i if_freq_hz] # Intermediate Frequency (IF) in Hz [2170MHz to 2740MHz supported, 2000MHz to 3000MHz forceable].

[-o lo_freq_hz] # Front-end Local Oscillator (LO) frequency in Hz [84MHz to 5400MHz].

[-m image_reject] # Image rejection filter selection, 0=bypass, 1=low pass, 2=high pass.

[-a set_amp] # RX/TX RF amplifier 1=Enable, 0=Disable.

[-p antenna_enable] # Antenna port power, 1=Enable, 0=Disable.

[-l gain_db] # RX LNA (IF) gain, 0-40dB, 8dB steps

[-g gain_db] # RX VGA (baseband) gain, 0-62dB, 2dB steps

[-x gain_db] # TX VGA (IF) gain, 0-47dB, 1dB steps

[-s sample_rate_hz] # Sample rate in Hz (2-20MHz supported, default 10MHz).

[-F force] # Force use of parameters outside supported ranges.

[-n num_samples] # Number of samples to transfer (default is unlimited).

[-S buf_size] # Enable receive streaming with buffer size buf_size.

[-B] # Print buffer statistics during transfer

[-c amplitude] # CW signal source mode, amplitude 0-127 (DC value to DAC).

[-R] # Repeat TX mode (default is off)

[-C ppm] # Set Internal crystal clock error in ppm.

[-H] # Synchronize RX/TX to external trigger input.

[-b baseband_filter_bw_hz] # Set baseband filter bandwidth in Hz.

Possible values:
1.75/2.5/3.5/5/5.5/6/7/8/9/10/12/14/15/20/24/28MHz,
default < sample_rate_hz.

SEE ALSO¶

Great Scott Gadgets HackRF web page: http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

Other hackrf programs:

hackrf_cpldjtag(1), hackrf_debug(1), hackrf_info(1), hackrf_spiflash(1)

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (c) 2013 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.