Good Morning. We at PARI have purchased a USRP for radio astronomy purposes.
I spent the better part of two days getting all the prerequisites installed on my CentOS 4 laptop; whew, there are some doozies! The worst was wxPython; nowhere in the wiki that I could find the version required. I had built the CVS version; the release of 2.5 changed things a little. I had built wxPython 2.4; found after reading in the source dist for gr-wxgui that it needed 2.5, and built that. I can provide RPMs for the packages that lend themselves to RPMs, and might even consider packaging GNUradio proper as RPM. My qualifications for doing that are the five years I spent maintaining the RPM's for PostgreSQL. The whole single-precision fftw was also kindof a bear, and will break the next time yum pulls down an update. That's a little too fragile for my liking. However, I'm excited to be working towards this; our technical director, Charles Osborne, has been active on the SARA list about these things, and I decided to go ahead and join the list here (makes three dozen and one lists now) to see how things develop. We plan on developing full-bore spectroscopy frontends, both local GUI and Web GUI, as well as RPC-type remote spectrometers (like, putting a USRP and a small low-power PC in the feedbox of one of our 26m telescopes and sending the data down GigE over fiber). Now to save up and get a USRP for myself (ARS callsign KF4MYT). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
