: Standard for digital public safety radio communications in North America.
Search for the official OpenEar repository on open-source hosting platforms like or trusted radio scanner community forums (such as RadioReference or specialized RTL-SDR hobbyist blogs). Look specifically for archives labeled OpenEar_17.6_2021 or similar release tags.
Zadig USB driver (required for Windows to recognize the SDR dongle).
The RTL-SDR dongle must be pre-configured using the Zadig utility to install the generic WinUSB driver. If your dongle already works with software like SDR#, it is ready for OpenEar.