This is awesome! I just pulled master and I am recompiling it right now. Thanks 
you both so much for the help.

I clearly still have some tuning work to do either way, but it would be great 
to get move up to 3.7. I will let you know if this clears it up. I have my 
fingers crossed that it will.

> On Nov 4, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 22:13 -0500, Luke Berndt wrote:
>> Thanks Andy! Good catch - I made the changes you suggested. I was just
>> doing a simple back of the envelope calculation to come up with
>> channel size. It does look like cleans things up and adding the
>> waterfall graphs does make it easier to see. Unfortunately, it does
>> seem to change the decoding. I am still getting the same amount of CRC
>> errors.
>> 
>> Did the overall signal look right, like something that should be decodable? 
> 
> So I put the output of the FLL into a quad demod block and compared its
> output to the PLL Freq det output.  They are pretty much in line, except
> the quadrature demod block output shows occasional burst of noise for a
> few symbol times where the transmission must have stopped and restarted.
> The PLL freq detect block just makes something up during these times.
> So that seems generally OK.
> 
> 
> 
>> Anything else I should try?
> 
> Your PLL freq detector block output is swinging between -2 and 2.  You
> might want to reduce the max and min freq by a factor of 2, so that the
> clock recovery block sees inputs limited to +/- 1.0.  See Nick's
> recommendation here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2014-10/msg00473.html 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2014-10/msg00473.html>
> 
> So after i did that, what I really noticed is that the correlator is
> just not marking preambles properly.  See the top plot of the attached
> to window shots:  Preamble_marked_late_twice.png and
> Preamble_marked_early.png
> 
> If the deinterleaver and/or crc block isn't searching around for where
> the preamble really is, well that would explain it.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy
> 
>> - Luke
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Luke,
>>> 
>>> I have not built the SmartNet blocks yet, but:
>>> 
>>> Your low pass filter looks way too wide and you'll get aliases when you
>>> decimate by 185.  2 Msps / 185 = 10.81 ksps, so the Nyquist frequency is
>>> 5.405 kHz.  I winged this is as a low pass filter and things looked
>>> better:
>>> 
>>> firdes.low_pass_2(1, samp_rate, 4500, 1000, 60, firdes.WIN_HANN, 6.76)
>>> 
>>> The 60 dB down may be overkill, you can make it smaller for a filter
>>> with less delay.
>>> 
>>> I found an offset slider value of -15k made things look about centered
>>> manually.
>>> 
>>> You might want to put a waterfall sink before and after the FLL
>>> Band-Edge filter to observe how it is making the spectrum wobble around
>>> a little. If you change your offset slider, you can see the FLL
>>> band-edge filter centering things back up; so that looks like it is
>>> working.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andy
>>> 
>> 
> 
> <Preamble_marked_late_twice.png><Preamble_marked_early.png>

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