It works now, although with some U's on the console, they were there before
anyways. I forgot to run systctl -w net.core.rmem_max=50000000 and
net.corewmem_max=1048576. As soon as I ran it the harmonics went away.


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras <[email protected]>wrote:

> May it be just some lost packet or smth. like that? It looks very similar
> when USB does not catch up when using my USRP1 and BladeRF... Missing
> samples can create funny signals.
>
>
>
> Ralph.
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>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Matt
> Ettus
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 08, 2014 2:25 AM
> *To:* Jonathan Fox
> *Cc:* GNURadio Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-users] USRP N210 Signal Phase
> Issue
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>
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> It could be the usrp digitally clipping, not the analyzer.
>
>
>
> Matt
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>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Fox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Try reducing the amplitude to 0.7.  Another possibility is that your
> computer can't keep up.  If you are using one of the standard programs, are
> there U's printing in the terminal?
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> Also, what RF gain are you setting?  Does it exceed the maximum input
> level of the spectrum analyser?
>
> Are you connected directly, or with an antenna?
>
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>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Fox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> A colleague and I are sending a simple signal in GNU Radio (sine wave, 1
> MHz, amplitude of 1) to the USRP sink and have the center frequency at 500
> MHz. The N210 USRP is hooked up to an Agilent spectrum analyzer. On the
> analyzer we are seeing a weird phenomena every two seconds. At first we see
> the carrier frequency and two sidebands from the sine wave (see attached
> normal.gif). Then after two seconds we get two bursts of multiple harmonics
> (see odd.gif).
>
>
>
> The question is, why is this happening? Does the phase of the 1 KHz signal
> become discontinuous before or after being sent to the USRP?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jon Fox
>
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> I don't recall seeing any U's but I can recheck tomorrow. The gain on the
> USRP was set to -2. The USRP was connected directly with an SMA cable. The
> analyzer is an Agilent E4440A, the Analyzer is rated for at least 1 Watt on
> average, 100 Watt on a peak pulse (with the built-in attenuator in use).
> While I am not ruling out the maximum input I thought the N210 tops out at
> 0.5 Watts due to FCC regulations.
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> Thanks
>
> Jon
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