hackrf_transfer(1)

hackrf_transfer1

File based transmit and receive sdr

Usage

hackrf_transfer [OPTIONS]

Overview

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.

Options

-r <filename> # Receive data into file.
-t <filename> # Transmit data from file.
-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
[-a set_amp] # Set Amp 1=Enable, 0=Disable.
[-l gain_db] # Set lna gain, 0-40dB, 8dB steps
[-i gain_db] # Set vga(if) gain, 0-62dB, 2dB steps
[-x gain_db] # Set TX vga gain, 0-47dB, 1dB steps
[-s sample_rate_hz] # Set sample rate in Hz (8/10/12.5/16/20MHz)
[-n num_samples] # Number of samples to transfer (default is unlimited).
[-b baseband_filter_bw_hz] # Set baseband filter bandwidth in MHz.

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.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–11
  2. 12–13

Author

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

From hackrf 2024.02.1-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.