Release go2SIGNALS 21.1
by R. Haenggi
What's New?
Release V21.2 (January 2021)
Common Features
Demodulators
- MIL-STD-188-110C Appendix D wideband HF data up to 24 kHz
Decoders
- CHN MIL Hybrid 8FSK-PSK with output of raw transmission symbols
- CIS Hybrid MFSK-68 PSK-9000 with output of raw transmission symbols
- CIS Hybrid MFSK-80 PSK-250 with output of raw transmission symbols
- APCO25: output of encryption algorithm
- DMR: decryption of ARC4 encrypted transmission with known key
- ELT, EPIRB, COSPAS-SARSAT, PLB: decoding of emergency radio beacon
- FT8/FT4: full decoding of all burst types
- MPT 1327: enhanced decoder output
- POCSAG: output address in xml
- Selcal ICAO: added status output
- CODAN: Added binary output to CODAN 3212 1 Channel PSK, CODAN 3212 1 Channel PSK 75bps, CODAN 3212 1 Channel PSK HDR, CODAN Selcal, CODAN 3012 Chirp
- Various decoders moved now to Python 3.8 (pyDDL)
Receivers
- SignalHound SM200 A/B
- IZT R3xxx 20MHz now with spectrum overview (panorama display)
- NARDA SignalShark with RF-Input selection
go2MONITOR
GUI-System
- ResultViewer added export format for INNO Metascope (CIM)
- Frequency spin boxes in NB-channels and WB-Input (Receiver-Frequency) remember units (kHz, MHz, GHz) and number of decimal places
- Improved mission channels view
- Added display of blocked frequencies in broadband spectrogram
- Decoder parameter control added (for alphabets, deciphering keys, decoder parameters). It is possible to save settings in a new decoder.
- Additional metadata extraction from decoder results for :
- Support for ALE-3G and APCO-25 Phase2
- Encryption property for DMR, DMR Continuous, NXDN & APCO-25
- TETRA DMO, TETRA Uplink
- DSC-HF, DSC-VHF
Classifier
- UMTS/LTE mobile phone services detection
- MIL-STD-188-110C Appendix D detection
- CIS112-OFDM improved burst detection
- OFDM classification improved
- Wideband signal detection improved
AMT
- Fixed Frequency Classification mode
- VHF-UHF Fast Triggering mode
go2DECODE
GUI-System
- Live audio playback: Improved voice quality
- Decoder parameters: New editor
SOMO
- OFDM signal generation added
Release V20.2 (July 2020)
Common Features
Demodulators
- Multitone (MFSK), demodulator and decoder for simultaneous tones
- DECT
- GSM
Decoders
- DECT (full decoding of GAP-Profile based connections including voice calls and meta information, voice if unencrypted)
- GSM (Broadcast Channel, BCH)
- DMR (automatic cracking of Motorola Basic Privacy encrypted calls, recognition of encryption modes)
- Support for python based decoders (pyDDL). DDL remains supported
Detectors
-
Link 11 CLEW UHF
Receivers
- USRP X310
- R&S EB510
- R&S EB500, ATT control added
- CommsAudit CA 7852 receiver control (frequency, bandwidth, gain) added
- SignalHound BB60C, scan mode added
- R&S EM100/PR100/EB500, multicast UDP added
- PLATH SIR 21XX, frequency range > 3GHz
go2MONITOR
GUI
- "Live Processing" as new task type for all go2MONITOR products
- Task triggering from the panorama display
- Missions can be linked to a GUI perspective
- Sample missions
- "Inverse Trigger" for AMT tasks
- Bulk file processing in the narrow band channels
- Double-click the status bar to switch between minimum and maximum layout
- Double-click on audio meter is mute/un-mute the audio
- Monitor folders and automatically process any new or existing signal stored there
- Added WAV files up to 4 GB
- TCI Blackbird CAP signal file playback support
- Results can be exported from the ResultViewer into the Innosystec Metascope CIM format
- Import of the EiBi HF broadcast frequency list
Classifier
- CHN hybrid
go2DECODE
Decoder Development
- The decoder development Langauage (DDL) is extended by PYTHON
- We will move step by step all included decoders from DDL to pyDDL
- Customers can convert their existing DDL files to pyDDL using our migration tool
- New editor and debugger for pyDDL decoders based on Spyder IDE
GUI
- Sonagram with higher limit for number of lines per second
- Bitdisplay: option to switch between LSB/MSB-first order
- Button to manually refresh list of local decoders
PMO
- Show hex output in plainresult
go2ANALYSE
- Minor internal changes
Release V20.1 (January 2020)
Common Features
Features & Improvements
- Better performance with optimized IPP2019 vector functions
Demodulators
- Robust Packet
- ALE 3G: demodulation of BW7 with adapted equalizer
- FSK 400/500splitted on two modems: CHN MIL 4FSK 400Hz and CHN MIL 4FSK 500Hz
- APCO25, DMR, dPMR: Improved decoder performance due to soft decision demodulator
Decoders
- Metadata extraction from Thuraya uplink decoder
- Detector for Thuraya uplink, IsatPhone uplink, Iridium uplink
- Detector for Link22 as described in STANAG4539 Annex D
- Robust Packet: Complete decoding of PSK2 and PSK4 transmission mode
- APCO25 Phase 2 downlink: full decoding including voice in both slots and meta data
- Thuraya sat phone uplink: full decoding of RACH bursts including phone number and GPS-position
- ALE 3G: Decoding of BW7 bursts including automatic mode detection
- CODAN 3212: mode (3012 / 3212 / auto) selectable
- DCS-SelCal: decoding in combination with voice detector
- Tetrapol: Voice decoding in unencrypted case
- Tetrapol: VHF encoding mode
- NXDN: improved performance of automatic key recovery (scramble mode)
- STANAG 4285: automatic mode search improved and increased error limit
- 'Status' output channel for live decoder status. This output channel summarizes important meta data and status information (e.g. Tetra Country Code) in one single line
- 'Notify' output channel to separate user information from decoder resu
Receivers
- Signalhound BB60C receiver
- CommsAudit CA7852 receiver (only IQ signal, no receiver control)
- WinRadio G35DDC, DLL version updated to v1.4.2.45
- R&S EM100, support for older Firmware versions included (<v5.0)
- NARDA SignalShark also available under Linux
- Improved time synchronization for receivers which do not deliver timestamp on its own
go2MONITOR
GUI
- Auto-coverage replaced by Memory-Step and Memory-Scan
- Automatic monitoring and tasking: Channel raster/bandwidth definition for frequency ranges is supported
- Setting for handling "almost full" hard disk.
- Setting to obtain fixed length broadband recordings
- Default PostgreSql control TCP port changed to 39115
- Better performance with optimized IPP2019 vector functions
- New function for defining, saving and loading channel configurations for each narrowband channel. This function replaces the previous function "Channel perspective".
- Narrowband channel status bar for more structured information display
- Narrowband channel display widget for displaying status information from a decoder
- Decoder results Display: "Notifications" to display only the notifications of the decoder. Display types (All*) also show the notifications as grey text
- Change of the decoder result display type "HEX" to display only hex values without any formatting
- Automatic monitoring and tasking: Frequency management redesigned
- Frequencies: Improved import and handling in the automatic monitoring and tasking option
- The receiver's overview spectrum can now display search/block frequencies and spectrum activity information
- Blocked frequencies can be added directly in the overview spectrum
- Additional columns with detailed modem information in the modem list editor
- No restriction of the maximum bandwidth value for blocked frequencies
- Optimized GUI elements for better display at screen resolutions <=1024px
- Use of the JEDI library for auto-completion in the scripting editor
Classifier
- Inmarsat SAT phone uplinks
- Iridium SAT phone uplinks
- CHN 4+4
- VDL2
- PSK Classifier Improvements
- Increased frequency range for TETRAPOL detection
- Improved handling of matching modems to multichannel signals. Modems with non-equidistant channels may be excluded from matching.
Hopper Detection
- Added support for go2MONITOR – Hopper Detection Plugin
- Improved handling of multiple synchronous inputs
go2DECODE
GUI
- Added status bar in result viewer for live decoder results
- Added dialog to edit frequency ranges of modem
- Added switch to deactivate exclusion of modems due to wrong frequency range
- Improved audio quality for digital modes when using AGC
- Minor improvement in decoder property GUI layout
- Ask for confirmation before clearing decoder output window
- New shortcut F6 for tile + restore parameter field hiding
DANA
- Added option to set receiver frequency for loaded signal file
- Better handling of End of Signal (EOS) when replaying file list
- Optional flush at file end is now disabled is default
go2ANALYSE
Features & Improvements
- Upgraded toolchain
- Upgraded GUI framework (Qt5.12)