Universal SDR receiver for VHF/UHF band
Advanced demodulator API available
Optimized for Software Defined Radio

  • Description
  • Specifications
  • Ordering Info

Description

DTA-2131B Features

  • Tuner, I/Q demodulator and sample-rate converter, optimized for use with SDR technology (Software Defined Radio = demodulation in software)
  • Several software demodulators available, including ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2, QAM-A/B/C with features, performance and advanced
    RF measurements exceeding those of consumer demodulator chips
  • Hardware sample rate converter for obtaining I/Q samples at a convenient sample rate
  • Demodulated stream and advanced RF measurements available through free Windows and       Linux SDK (DTAPI)

DTA-2131B Applications

  • Network monitoring of ATSC, ATSC-3, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DAB+, DVB-C2 or ISDB-T with advanced measurements
  • Universal receiver
  • Receiving DVB-T2 as full T2MI stream
  • Recording of I/Q samples
  • Front end for SDR experiments

Specifications

RF input                        75-Ω F female
Input return loss          >18dB
Tuning range                 42 .. 870MHz
Input sensitivity             -90 .. -20dBm
Bandwidth                      1.7/5/6/7/8 MHz
I/Q sample rate              1.0 .. 40Msps
SNR                                50dB
MER                                3 .. 47dB ± 2dB
RF level                          -90 .. -10dBm
Constellation                  Yes
Standards                        ATSC VSB, ATSC3.0, DAB+, DVB-C, DVB-C2, DVB-T, DVB-T2,
ISDB-T/Tsb, QAM (A/B/C), I/Q samples
Power consumption        5.5 W
PCI-Express label           PCIe x1

OS                                     Windows 10, 11
Server 16, 19, 22
Linux >2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x

Ordering Info

All USA orders will be shipped from our USA warehouse. 

All other orders will be shipped from Canada.

ORDERING INFO

DTA-2131B –   Multi-standard VHF/UHF receiver

DTA-2131B-SL   –   Multi-standard VHF/UHF receiver with StreamXpert Lite

DTA-2131B-SX    – Multi-standard VHF/UHF receiver with StreamXpert

DTA-2131B-XPRT  –  Multi-standard VHF/UHF receiver with ATSC3Xpert, C2Xpert, T2Xpert

DTA-2131B-XPRT-SX  –  Multi-standard VHF/UHF receiver with ATSC3Xpert, C2Xpert, T2Xpert and StreamXpert

 

Software Description

1StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software
• Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
• Recording based on duration, size or manual
• Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
• Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
• User definable TR 101 290 templates
• PCR analysis
• Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
• Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
• Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
• Closed captions decoding
• SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
• Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
• The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser

2.  StreamXpert Lite – Light-weight version of StreamXpert for viewing and recording transport-stream contents, and for decoding audio and video.

 

                                                             StreamXpert           StreamXpert Lite

Ribbon based GUI                                        ✓                               ✓
Display
List with properties of all PIDs                      ✓                               –
List with properties of all services                 ✓                               partial
List with properties of all tables                    ✓                                –
Video Decoding
HEVC                                                            ✓                                ✓
AVC                                                               ✓                                ✓
AVS                                                               ✓                                ✓
MPEG-2                                                        ✓                                ✓
4:2:2                                                              ✓                                –
10-bit                                                             ✓                                –
Full screen mode                                          ✓                                ✓
Multi-monitor support                                    ✓                                ✓
Audio Decoding
HE-AAC                                                        ✓                                ✓
AAC                                                              ✓                                ✓
E-AC-3                                                          ✓                                ✓
AC-3                                                             ✓                                 ✓
MPEG-1 Layer II                                           ✓                                ✓
Supported Interfaces
DekTec input adapters                                   ✓                                 ✓
PC network ports                                           ✓                                 ✓
Advanced
Custom table and descriptor templates         ✓                                  –
PID Grid, graphical overview of all PIDs        ✓                                  –
Dolby AC-4 analysis                                       ✓                                  –
Recording
Manual mode                                                ✓                                  ✓
Size based                                                    ✓                                  ✓
Duration based                                              ✓                                  ✓
Measurement and Compliance
TR 101 290 priority 1, 2 and 3                      ✓                                  –
Bitrate                                                           ✓                                  partial
PCR graphs                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR accuracy                                               ✓                                  –
PCR interval                                                  ✓                                  –
PCR frequency offset                                    ✓                                  –

 

3. ATSC3Xpert – Analysis of ATSC-3 with advanced RF measurements

4. C2Xpert – Analysis of DVB-C/C2 with advanced RF measurements

5. T2Xpert – Analysis of DVB-T/T2 with advanced RF measurements

 

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