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QUIKTOOL TUI

The temporary flagship - ties all the radio libraries into one keyboard‑driven terminal dashboard. Built with ratatui + crossterm. Developed on Windows; CI builds and runs the test suite on Linux, and type‑checks an arm64 build without gating on it. macOS is supported by the same crossterm backend but is not covered by CI. The source is at gitlab.com/dh81-labs/quiktool (opens in new tab), and the status table on the home page has the current version.

Disclaimer: All software on this site is provided for personal, educational, and non-commercial research use only. These are hobbyist projects - not certified, validated, or approved for any safety-critical, emergency communications, or operational aviation purpose. See Terms of Use.

quiktool Help hub: the eight hubs with their keys, a sidebar with local time, weather, solar activity, moon phase, and planets, and the legal disclaimer (full-size image) Radio hub with no receiver attached: empty station, signal, and RDS fields and an alert that no RTL-SDR device was found (full-size image) Time hub: clock offsets from four NTP servers beside the WWV radio panel and its list of time-signal frequencies (full-size image) Signals hub, ADS-B tab: listening, with no aircraft detected (full-size image) Sky hub, satellite tab: upcoming NOAA and Meteor-M passes with countdown, maximum elevation, and duration (full-size image) Earth hub, weather tab: current conditions at the observer location and a barometric pressure chart (full-size image) Media hub: the WAV recorder, idle (full-size image) Comms hub: VNS site hosting, not yet available in quiktool (full-size image)

Screenshots from October 2026, with the observer set to the geographic center of the contiguous US and no RTL‑SDR receiver attached.

Menu:

0:Helpkeyboard shortcuts and feature overview
1:RadioFM/HD + AM/AM-HD combined, RDS, seek, presets, band scan
2:TimeNTP clock comparison + WWV, WWVB, JJY, DCF77, BPC, RBU, and CHU decode
3:SignalsADS-B aircraft tracking, AIS marine vessels, ACARS aviation messaging
4:Skysatellite orbits + APT imagery, sun, moon, ASCII orrery, zodiac, wheel of the year, cycles
5:Earthweather, USGS earthquake alerts, radar, NWR
6:Mediarecorder
7:CommsVNS site hosting (placeholder)

Sidebar (always visible):

Local time (PST/PDT) + UTC, DST countdown, moon phase + illumination, planets above/below horizon, zodiac transitions, upcoming holidays (US, CA, AU, GB), radio station / signal / now playing, weather stats (imperial + metric)

Hardware:

- Radio features require an RTL-SDR USB dongle (RTL2832U + R820T/R820T2). ~$30.
- Weather, earthquake, moon/solar, and time sync work without hardware.