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antscope2

RigExpert's own analyzer software, for their antenna analyzers

What it does

Talks to RigExpert antenna analyzers (AA-series, Stick-series) over USB, drives sweeps, and plots SWR, R/X and Smith charts, with cable compensation and measurement export.

Why you would want it

It is the vendor's own software and the only Linux program that speaks to every current RigExpert model. For the models flaa supports, flaa is the lighter open alternative; for the rest this is the option.

Before it will work

A RigExpert analyzer. Most models enumerate as a USB CDC serial device -- membership of dialout covers those. AHRL additionally shipped a udev rule opening 0483:a1de (some models' custom USB interface) to MODE 0666; this catalog has not yet carried a RigExpert entry in the hardware catalog, so on such models the device may need root until it does.

How it installs

  • prebuilt deb from https://rigexpert.com/files/software/Antscope/antscope2forlinux/antscope2_2.0.2_ubuntu.deb — arch x86_64

Known problems

x86_64 only -- the vendor ships no ARM build and AHRL's compile attempt on aarch64 failed. The .deb installs the whole application under /usr/antscope2/ with a launcher script, not into standard paths, and its control metadata (version "1.0", architecture "all") does not match the filename or payload.

Keeping it current

  • probe: none
  • strategy: reinstall
  • New builds appear as new filenames in rigexpert.com/files/software/Antscope/antscope2forlinux/ with no feed and no changelog. Check when a new analyzer model is not recognised.

Where to get help with the software itself

RigExpert's own support channels; source at github.com/rigexpert/AntScope2.

Source: catalog/packages/antscope2.yaml