For Ron, and anyone else who is interested.

I cleaned Bob's message up myself a little earlier today. I think I got 
everything into the right places. Here is the result.

K5XU


If you don't mind working with command line programs,
this utility, rtl_fm is completely accessible for tuning the RTL2832 dongles.

http://kmkeen.com/rtl-demod-guide/index.html

Batch files can be easily written for whatever frequency you like to 
monitor as well as placing the tuner into a scan or search mode.

Quote from Website:

Rtl_fm is a general purpose analog demodulator. It can handle FM, AM 
and SSB. It
can scan more than a hundred frequencies a second.

Here are three script examples to program the tuner.

Music on the Radio:
rtl_fm -M wbfm -f 89.1M | play -r 32k -t raw -e s -b 16 -c 1 -V1 - .

Police Scanner:
rtl_fm -M fm -f 154.42M -f 154.75M -f 154.82M -f 154.89M -s 12k -g 50 
-l  70 | play

for searching a specific range:

rtl_fm -M am -f 118M:137M:25k -s 12k -g 50 -l 280 | play -r 12k ... .

Note that these scripts are case sensitive. Use capital M for dash M, 
mode for example.

Aside from the rtl_fm utility, the SoX, Sound Exchange, application is needed.

I had issues with the latest version 14.4.2, but the earlier version 
14.4. 1 works fine.
It can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/sox-14.4.1a-win32.zip

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.4.1/sox-14.4.1a-win32.zi 
p/download

After unzipping the file, rename sox.exe to play.exe in order to make 
the Play command work.

As with the other SDR programs, the Zadig USB driver must be installed. 
Info and downloads are here:
http://zadig.akeo.ie/

Guess you could say I'm very pleased with this program. It has its 
limitations, but they're worth it.

73, Bob WA1KXH