RF Scope is a 10-part tutorial series on rfscope — GopherTrunk’s protocol-agnostic RF network analyzer, “Wireshark for the RF physical layer.” Point it at any band, a recorded capture or a live SDR, with no prior knowledge of the technology, modulation, framing, or encryption, and it produces a structured Scene: what’s on the air and how it behaves. We start from your first scene summary and build to segmentation tuning, live cockpit analysis, and scripting the whole thing into a reverse-engineering pipeline.

A note up front: despite the name, RF Scope is not a waterfall or spectrum-scope UI — it is an analyzer that turns raw IQ into tables, trees, and graphs. If you want live constellations and eye diagrams, that’s Signal Lab.

Every post reads three ways: a TL;DR + cheat-sheet for skimmers, bold headers, tables, and diagrams for the medium read, and full prose for the deep read. Ada (new operator) and Reese (RF veteran) walk it with you.

This is one leg of the Lab Bench trilogy: Signal Lab, RF Scope (this one), and Crypto Lab. A mystery signal — Mercury — runs through all three.<ol class="post-list series-list"><li class="post-card"> <h2 class="post-card__title">RF Scope, Part 1: Wireshark for the RF Physical Layer</h2> <p class="post-card__meta"> July 2, 2026 Tutorials </p><p class="post-card__desc">rfscope is GopherTrunk’s protocol-agnostic RF network analyzer — point it at any band, recorded IQ or a live SDR, with no prior knowledge of the technology, modulation, framing, or encryption, and get a structured Scene of what is on the air and how it behaves.</p></li></ol><p class="blog-feed-link"> See all tutorials or subscribe via RSS. </p>