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  Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)stuartl@longlandclan.id.au

  May 18, 2026, 9:00 PM

  @ChuckMcManis @ai6yr Yes, and a tool named "rtl_*fm*" also sounds like it's for receiving Frequency Modulation signals, not Single Side-Band.

  So it's a poorly named tool. I'd have called it `rtl_rx` or `rtl_demod`.

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  ChuckChuckMcManis@chaos.social

  May 18, 2026, 9:02 PM

  @stuartl @ai6yr
  LOL. Yeah, but I would bet you a donut that in the initial commit of the code all it did was demodulate WBFM and then someone said, "Well it could also do ..." and that got added on. You could hack it to also demodulate SSTV and add a switch to tell it to produce .png files or something and the cycle would continue. 😆

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