Henry, Yes, the data stream will be interleaved I and Q values.
Happy Holidays, Nate > On Dec 25, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Henry Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're right, Nate, the sampling rate equals bandwidth on SDR's. Does complex > sampling mean using I and Q? > > Sent from Windows Mail > > From: Nate Temple > Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 7:26 PM > To: [email protected] > > Hi, > > > Remember the Nyquist Theorem, which tells us that you can sample 1,6 MHz > > wir 3,2 MSPS, and common amateur radio signals are generally far smaller > > than 1,6 MHz. So the RTLSDR stick will probably be sufficient for most > > of your experiments. > > Just a small correction, the samples from the common RTLSDRs are complex > samples, so 3.2 MSPS will yield 3.2 MHz bandwidth. It is typically not ideal > to sample at 3.2 MSPS with the RTLSDRs as they can internally drop samples at > that rate. 2.048 or 2.56 MSPS is usually a solid sample rate with them, but > YMMV from RTLSDR to RTLSDR. > > Happy Holidays, > Nate > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
