rf-info 0.6.3

Python library and command line tool to get Information about a Radio Frequency

rf-info

Command line & Python library for obtaining details about a radio frequency

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://rf-info.readthedocs.io.

• Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 & pypy3 tested

• Linux & Windows with color terminal support

Features

Returns information about a radio frequency (Country Specific)

• “Radio Display” format (Dotted notaton)

• hz, khz, Mhz and Ghz representations of the frequency

• Frequency Wavelength

• ITU Band Description

• ITU Band Abbreviation

• ITU Band Number

• IEEE Band Name

• NATO Band Name

• Waveguide Band Name

• Fixed Station & Mobile Station Designations

• Broadcast Information

• Primary Band Allocations

• Secondary Band Allocations

• Detailed footnotes for each band allocation * Coming soon

• Amateur Radio Details (Type, Class, Max Power) * Coming soon

Currently supported band allocations for countries: United States (US), Canada (CA), United Kingdom (GB), Spain (ES), Germany (GR), Japan (JP), Thailand (TH), South Korea (KR), Russia (RU), Brazil (BR), Italy (IT), Indonesia (IN), France (FR), Ukraine (UA), Argentina (AR), Poland (PL), Austrailia (AU), Netherlands (NL), Sweden (SE), India (IN), Denmark (DK), Czech Republic, Hungary (HU), Mexico (MX), Chile (CL), South Africa (ZA), Finland (FI), Switzerland (CH), New Zealand (NZ), Norway (NO), Venezeula (VE)

I can easily add support for more countries upon request

Usage

Command Line:

$ rf-info <frequency> [<units>] [<country>]

Frequency format examples:

$ rf-info 89910000
$ rf-info 23,450,000
$ rf-info 12,634.534
$ rf-info 12_000_000
$ rf-info 344_500.100

Also supports “Radio Display” frequency representation (Dotted notation):

$ rf-info 124.125.000
$ rf-info 1.500.125.000
$ rf-info 000.012.500

Suffix examples: hz, khz, Mhz, Ghz (Case Insensitive)

$ rf-info 123.100 mhz
$ rf-info 4.5 ghz

Country examples (2 digit abbriviation, 3 digit abbriviation, 3 digit number, or full name): US, USA, 040, JPN, es, Spain (Case Insensitive)

$ rf-info 144.400.000 hz US
$ rf-info 88 mhz JPN

Python:

>>> from rf-info import Frequency
>>> freq = Frequency('112.434.000')
>>> freq.details()

returns a dictionary:

>>> {'display': '144.100.000', 'hz': 144100000, 'khz': 144100.0, 'mhz': 144.1, 'ghz': 0.1441, 'wavelength': '2m', 'itu_band': 'Very High Frequency', 'itu_abbr': 'VHF', 'itu_num': 8, 'ieee_band': 'VHF', 'ieee_description': 'Very High Frequency', 'nato_band': 'A', 'waveguide_band': None, 'country_abbr': 'US', 'country_name': 'United States of America', 'amateur': True, 'fixed_station': False, 'mobile_station': False, 'broadcast': False, 'primary_allocation': ['Amateur', 'Amateur-Satellite'], 'secondary_allocation': [], 'allocation_notes': ['[5.216]: Additional allocation: in China, the band 144-146 MHz is also allocated to the aeronautical mobile (OR) service on a secondary basis.']}

or you can get individual items directly:

>>> freq.itu_band
>>> freq.wavelength
>>> freq.primary_allocation

Also supports adding and subtracting frequencies. Either a frequency object, int, or string representation of a frequency, returns a new frequency object:

>>> new_freq_object = Frequency('001.123.000') + Frequency('7', 'khz')  # Adds 7 khz to 1.123 mhz
>>> new_freq_object = Frequency('1', 'mhz') + 15000  # Adds 15 khz to 1 mhz
>>> new_freq_object = Frequency('123,000') - '000.007.000'  # Subtracts 7 khz from 123 khz

Todo

• More WIFI band details (channels)

• More Cellular band details (channels)

• More Sattelite band details

Credits

M. Ian Perry ([e-mail]) AD8DL

History

0.1.0 (2020-01-12)

• First release on PyPI.