Jeff

Thanks for the pointers. I'll try these some time this week... hopefully
before we see more lightning (Wed/Thurs). I do appreciate the help.

Regards
Gerry

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jeff Long <willco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gerry,
>
> It will probably take a bunch of experimentation to find something that
> works. Since you're probably interested in the very beginning of the
> signal, you'll need to do power detection in parallel with a delayed
> version of the signal so you trigger in time. Look up some of the following
> blocks:
>
> - Delay
> - RMS
> - Burst Tagger
> - Tagged File Sink
>
> Since you're capturing fairly short events, try recording bursts at full
> capture bandwidth (e.g., 1 MHz) to files, then do post processing as a
> second step. Find or make up some test signals to feed your flowgraph so
> you can work on it in good weather.
>
> - Jeff
>
>
> On 09/29/2014 04:20 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to become familiar with gnuradio, starting with grc, but I've
>> run into a couple of stumbling blocks.
>>
>> I'm using a USRP1 with an assortment of daughter boards, including LF-HF
>> and VHF capabilities. I'd like to be able to sample the spectrum in
>> relatively small segments, and capture the sample to a file, for
>> particular amplitude exceedances. To be specific, I'm looking at
>> lightning impulses and attempting to capture narrow segments of its
>> discharge spectrum for analysis. Most of this will be below 100 khz,
>> although I'm interested in systematically sampling from 10khz to 1 MHz.
>> Of I can capture sufficient samples, I'll perform wavelet and FFT
>> analyses against them, to see if I can identify patterns.
>>
>> Could someone spare a clue to a new guy, and point me either toward an
>> appropriate starting point in Python, or a good place to start in a grc
>> flowgraph?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>> --
>> Gerry Creager
>> N5JXS
>>
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