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Hence, in this work, it is proposed to link several affordable software-defined radios to sense a wide band of the radioelectric spectrum using this technique. Furthermore, in this real-time implementation, the following are proposed: (i) a module for the elimination of impulsive noise, with which the appearance of sudden changes in the signal is reduced through the detail coefficients of the multiresolution analysis, and (ii) the management of different devices through an application that updates the information of each secondary user every 100 ms. 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