Hi Kristoff,
You can just put an additional RRC in front of it or you can calculate the tabs 
by folding die tabs of the RRC with themself. There is probably a numpy 
function to do that. Have not tested any of that, but both ways should do the 
trick.

Fabian

Am 10. August 2021 20:44:05 MESZ schrieb Kristoff <[email protected]>:
>Hi all,
>
>
>I am playing around with PSK demodulation, now doing a small project 
>trying to decode the slow-speed PSK data on the 198 KHz carrier of BBC 
>radio 4.
>
>The specs are here:
>http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1984-19.pdf
>
>According the document (page 2 of the document, page 8 of the PDF), the 
>system uses a shaping-filter of cos(pi * f * Td / 4).
>(with Td = 50)
>
>If I am correct, this is in fact a raised-cosine filter with beta = 1.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised-cosine_filter
>
>So the document seems to specify a raised-cosine filter, both on the 
>transmit and receive side; so not a ROOT raised-cosine as is used in 
>most PSK systems.
>
>Question:|
>How do I create the filter-taps for the Polyphase clock sync block for a 
>raised-cosine filter?
>
>I found a function firdes.root_raised_cosine, but no firdes.raised_cosine?
>
>Is there a way to easily convert the taps of a RRC filter to those of a 
>RC filter? (RC = RRC^2, so square the value of all taps?)
>
>
>
>Any other ideas?
>- put an additional RRC low-pass filter in front of the Polyphase 
>clock-sync block?
>- use firdes.pm_remez() ?
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Kr.
>
>

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