Airband Radio (RTL-SDR)

Knowle Consultants

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About this app

*** Disclaimer ***
In some parts of the world it is illegal to listen to air traffic conversations. Please check the relevant laws in your region/country. We do not endorse illegal use of this application.

This application is about having a bit of fun with those amazing little RTL-SDR dongles, whilst listening to air traffic conversations in your local area. It's nice and easy to use so why not give it a try?

There are two ways to use the application. The first is to use an RTL-SDR dongle and an SDR driver, available from Google Play. Selecting the Driver option in the application menu will open the driver page on Google Play. The second way is to connect to an instance of rtl_tcp running on a remote computer, most likely over WiFi. You will need a good network connection for this to work reliably so use of the driver is probably the preferred way to use the application in most cases.

We hope you enjoy using this application.

Ratings and reviews

Great little app, very light on resources, and easy to set up and use. Able to connect to my SDR station remotely, even over cellular! Also the developers are very quick to respond to questions and action minor tweaks.

Doesn't really work. With Nooelec NESDR Smartee XTR and tuned external antenna I was getting much, much worse reception on Airband than with an indoor HT with classic dualband (2m/70cm) rubber ducky. Edit: Thanks for responding, that matters. PPM of the dongle is 0.5 and that could actually be this, I remember I had to adjust it with SDR Sharp. Will try again in some time soon. Thanks again.

Please add a scan feature!

What's new

A host name can now be entered instead of an IP address.