not trying to hijack the thread, but this being about the only one with people talking about sdr and all that. i have the nooelec rtl2832u /r820t dongle. and lately been using these softwares just by following the installers on their site/github pages, and they work on both windows/and my kali linux rolling install. http://www.pothosware.com/ directs to. https://github.com/pothosware . and another sdrtrunk https://github.com/DSheirer/sdrtrunk .