Yeah I figured that was the main issue, an AX.25 encoder/decoder would be
awesome!

Thanks

-Adam

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, John Malsbury <[email protected]>wrote:

> PS - The decoder I built was tested with live recordings of a stensat
> beacon from the phonesat group, so I think it will certainly work in your
> case - if only with minor modifications.
>
> -John
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:18 PM, John Malsbury <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Adam,
>>
>> I apologize if I'm misunderstanding your question.  But the packet
>> decoder in GNU Radio is not an AX.25, just a general purpose decode.  I've
>> hacked together an AX.25 receiver with the N200.  I can send the files to
>> you tomorrow.
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Adam Gunderson <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We are currently trying to setup a ground station for GMSK modulated
>>> AX25 packets at 9600 and 19200.
>>>
>>> Our current setup that works is the USRP N200 through GNU radio audio
>>> sink and to a Kantronics 9612+ TNC (gmsk_demod.png, quadrature demod ->
>>> audio sink). What we want to do is replace the hardware TNC with GNU radio
>>> packet decoding blocks and send the packets over TCP.
>>>
>>> We first tested the loopback through all the gmsk mod/demod and packet
>>> encoder/decoder blocks, (gmsk_loopback.png) and this works fine.
>>>
>>> However, when we send our received AX.25 packets through GMSK demod ->
>>> packet decoder -> TCP sink (gmsk_demod.png) we do not see anything on the
>>> TCP server side, which tested fine in loopback.
>>>
>>> We are assuming the hangup is in the packet decoder block as it is not
>>> recognizing AX.25 packets or possibly at the end of the GMSK demod block.
>>>
>>> Do we need to look into writing our own packet decoder block? If we need
>>> to do this, is there a good guide on how to edit existing blocks, or look
>>> at their work() functions?
>>>
>>> Do we need to also implement a derandomizer block before we even can
>>> start making sense of the bit stream?
>>>
>>> If we were able to get a byte stream with the framed AX.25 packets as an
>>> output from GNU radio to our TCP server we can deframe them there instead
>>> of in GNU radio, but we cannot get any output with this current setup.
>>>
>>> We have also looked at trying to get the GMSK Spacecraft Groundstation
>>> project to work but the versions must be out to date because the files
>>> located on https://www.cgran.org/wiki/GMSKSpacecraftGroundstation won't
>>> make.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -Adam
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam K. Gunderson
>>> Space Science and Engineering Lab
>>> Montana State University
>>> [email protected]
>>>
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>>>
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