SkyRoof 1.2 Software
Still in Beta and unfortunately only for Windows.
Jomjom79
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Libre/Free/Open-source licensed under the AGPLv3 
SkyRoof/LICENSE at master · VE3NEA/SkyRoof · GitHub
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Such a promising software, sadly only for Windows.
Its very GPU intensive. Viewing 3 mhz of spectrum floors out the GPU and everything turns to a crawl. Only way to remedy it is to zoom in and view less bandwith.
Granted, my Core I3 with Intel HD 520 is no powerhouse but any other SDR software lets me view 10mhz without any problems. Ohwell still Beta…
Jomjom79
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Tried downloading and installing this. It also installed updated versions of MS Desktop Runtime and Visual C++ redistributable packages during its installation.
When tried starting it nothing seemed to happen … well not quite true, CPU usage spiked to very high and fan constantly running but still after 20 minutes nothing displayed on screen and I killed it. Shut down and restarted machine, stopped as much other apps and background services as possible and tried starting this again. Same result skyhigh CPU, constant fan and nothing displayed on screen. Killed again after 20 mins.
I know I was using a quite old W10 laptop but over 20 min to just to load the app is unusable … Uninstalled. They need to be a lot more explicit on what the minimum system requirements are on the web page.
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Blockquote The waterfall display in SkyRoof spans 3MHz of spectrum, the whole satellite segment, but you can zoom in, just by spinning the mouse wheel, down to a 20-Hz resolution. This combination of wide span and super high resolution allows you to quickly find all satellite signals on the band and view their fine details using the same tool. I am not aware of any other software that allows that. This capability, however, comes at a price, it puts heavy load on both CPU and GPU. Some low end video cards may not be able to display such waterfall.
I have a sneaky suspicion that SDR++ and Gpredict still will be my go to solution in the future. Atleast that combination is no resource hog…
Jomjom79
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