I am using the 1st generation USRP with RFX2400 daughterboards each
connected to the TX/RX interface.

In the sine source block I am using a frequency of 100kHz. As the
interpolation of USRP sink is 128 I am using a sampling frequency of 1Msps.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nick Foster <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 12:23 -0500, John Andrews wrote:
> > I am using GRC. I used a signal source block generating a complex sine
> > at 100kHz. The USRP interpolation is 128 and the sampling rate of the
> > sine generator is 1MHz. The USRP connected to another computer has
> > USRP source configured at 64 decimation and is connected to an FFT
> > block. I don't see any peak at the expected frequency or anywhere in
> > the plot. Its just a flat plot. I checked the USRP settings on both
> > and they are configured right. I even have transmit gain and receive
> > gain as 10dB on both sides.
> >
> > What can be wrong here?
>
> What daughterboards are you using? What frequency are you using on the
> source/sink blocks? The BasicRX/TX should be used with >1MHz signals
> (configure the USRP source/sink center freq to 1MHz or above), since the
> transformers won't pass lower frequencies than this.
>
> --n
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >         On 16/05/2011 1:03 PM, John Andrews wrote:
> >         > Shouldn't I use some kind of modulation scheme to do this,
> >         > like FM or AM, to transmit a tone?
> >         No, you can just transmit a narrow, single-frequency tone, and
> >         use the receivers FFT to determine how far off it is from
> >           where you expect it.
> >
> >         use a signal-source producing a SIN wave at, let's say, 1KHz,
> >         feed that into a UHD/USRPx sink tuned to whatever your
> >         frequency is.
> >           The tone will appear at TUNED-FREQUENCY+1KHz.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         >
> >         > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Marcus D. Leech
> >         > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >         >         On 16/05/2011 10:26 AM, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
> >         >                 You may also look into this code:
> >         >                 http://thre.at/kalibrate/
> >         >                 It estimates offset of an USRP with regards
> >         >                 to a GSM base station, but
> >         >                 it can be easily modified to measure offset
> >         >                 from any clean tone, e.g.
> >         >                 transmitted by a second USRP.
> >         >
> >         >         Keep in mind that the offset measured must
> >         >         necessarily be the total offset--that is, both Rx
> >         >         and Tx can be "off" in frequency.
> >         >
> >         >         The practical consequence should be NIL, because
> >         >         frequency correction should normally only be done on
> >         >         the Rx-side, and it should
> >         >          simply adapt to whatever it sees, regardless of the
> >         >         Tx and Rx components of the offset.
> >         >
> >         >
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