Hi all, I wrote two gnuradio AFC (Automatic Frequency Control) demos
This AFC technique can come in handy when your tuning is critical and there is a frequency offset or doppler shift to be expected. (Like when trying to receive NOAA weather satelites which can have a substancial doppler shift. I am also working on an updated gr-noaa receive script which uses this AFC. ) There is a broadcast FM demo and a NOAA weathersatellite narrowband FM simulation demo. You can discuss and give feedback on the gnuradio AFC demo's here: http://www.gnuradio.eu/cms/nl/node/203 (But feedback on the gnuradio mailinglist is also OK of course) You can read about and download the gnuradio AFC demo's here: http://www.olifantasia.com/projects/gnuradio/mdvh/AFC Here follows the README: Gnuradio AFC demo's This directory contains gnuradio GRC and python example scripts for using AFC in an FM receiver. There is not (yet) a AFC gnuradio block. So these examples implement the AFC by lowpass filtering the FM demodulator output and putting the result in a variable sink. The variable sink then sets the center frequency of the frequency translating channel filter. This compensates any frequency offset or doppler drift. To limit the performance penalty of calling python code from the samplestream, the code is only called once a second. The critical settings of this feedback loop are: AFC_gain (float) AFC_IIR_alpha (float) AFC_update_rate (float value: seconds between updates) If you want to use this for a different FM signal type also make sure you set the right channel_bandwidth and max_dev (=Maximum FM frequency deviation in Hertz) Have fun 17 Mar 2010 Martin Dudok van Heel Olifantasia _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
