I'm using the SBX daughter board. I also misspoke, when I said no
attenuation I was actually using a 10dB attenuator that I forgot about.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 16:23 Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:

> On 07/17/2018 03:10 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote:
> > Hm, I'd agree, with 60 dB attenuation, we should at least see reduced
> > intermod products. OK, you said you had a spectrum analyzer that shows
> > the spectrum without these spurs, so I'm trying to rule out TX
> > overload/clipping:
> > Can you use the screenshot function of that spectrum analyzer (or make
> > a good photograph) with at most 100 kHz resolution bandwidth and a
> > smaller step size on your SA?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Marcus Müller
> Also, what daughtercard are you using here on your N210.
>
> Is it possible that while you were cabled direct without any attenuation
> that the RX saw full-power from the TX?
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:49 -0400, Justin Shetty wrote:
> >> I've tried the same test again with 30db and 60db of attenuation. The
> >> average strength is lower but the FFT still has the same profile with
> >> the repeated spurs. The RX overloading theory seemed promising, but
> >> I'm not sure what to make of the situation now that attenuation had
> >> little effect.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:43 PM Justin Shetty <jas0...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Looks the same as with my flowgraph (which is just the USRP source
> >>> going straight to the constellation and fft sinks). Also for
> >>> reference I'm using the SBX daughterboard.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:13 PM Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 07/16/2018 05:29 PM, Justin Shetty wrote:
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am working with an s-band radio and am receiving its OQPSK-
> >>>>> modulated signal on an USRP N210. The signal I'm seeing on an
> >>>>> FFT and constellation plot before any processing are not as
> >>>>> expected though. It is very different from the example shown in
> >>>>> the GNU Radio tutorial 7 (random source to a constellation
> >>>>> modulator to a channel model). I also looked at the signal on a
> >>>>> spectrum analyzer and it did not show the repeated peaks I am
> >>>>> seeing on my FFT. Does anyone know where I might be going wrong
> >>>>> or what's happening?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Justin Shetty
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>   What happens if you just use the "uhd_fft" utility to view this,
> >>>> rather than your own code?
> >>>>
> >>>>
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