Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modulation question

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew, just a quick heads-up: I nearly missed your message because it was hidden in another thread, since you seem to have hit reply and changed subject and text; however, my mail client recognized the In-Reply-To header, and sorted you in - pleas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Writing a block in Python (+XML)

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tom, > Have been trying to write a block in Python. Did not use the > modtool.py, since my understanding is it may not yet support that. Luckily, you're wrong. gr_modtool -l python add works like a charm. > The block has only one output, no input

[Discuss-gnuradio] Flow graph no exiting after head block termination [possibly packet encoder]

2014-01-29 Thread Ken Adams
Looking for an explanation, File Source -> GMSK MOD -> GMSK Demod -> Head Block -> File sinks Works fine, terminates after x number of bytes have been transferred and returns. However: File Source -> Packet Encoder -> GMSK MOD -> GMSK Demod -> Packet Decoder -> File sinks Does not return afte

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi all, Thanks! I'll give it a try once I get a LHCP antenna. Best regards, Cheng Chi On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote: > The polarisation loss in your case might be 30 dB. Have a look into that. > > Regards, > Vanush > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Sylvain Munaut <2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help about using gr-air-modes

2014-01-29 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi Nick, Thanks. Is it possible to treat the start of the save samples as time 0, then timestamp following packets accordingly? Well, if not, I think it would be a good feature to be added in the future. Best regards, Cheng Chi On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Nick Foster wrote: > Oh! Of co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Float version of the Frequency Xiating FIR Filter?

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/29/2014 07:24 PM, Jordan Johnson wrote: I am attempting to translate a 20khz DRM signal from its default spot of 10khz, to 120khz. The Frequency Xiating FIR does this just fine but it also decimates the signal--which I do not want. I want to pass the float input as a float until the final

[Discuss-gnuradio] Float version of the Frequency Xiating FIR Filter?

2014-01-29 Thread Jordan Johnson
I am attempting to translate a 20khz DRM signal from its default spot of 10khz, to 120khz. The Frequency Xiating FIR does this just fine but it also decimates the signal--which I do not want. I want to pass the float input as a float until the final stage at the BlaeRF as my FM transmitter is an al

[Discuss-gnuradio] Modulation question

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Rich
Ads-b uses a 1 MHz pulse position modulation scheme Is this possible to create on gnu ? Is it the data rate that makes the spectrum wide ? 7 MHz ? Also thinking about a b200 usrp looks nice Andrew vk4tec Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jan 2014, at 10:29 pm, Marcus Müller wrote: > > -BEG

[Discuss-gnuradio] Writing a block in Python (+XML)

2014-01-29 Thread Tom McDermott
Have been trying to write a block in Python.  Did not use the modtool.py, since my understanding is it may not yet support that. The block has only one output, no inputs. Also wrote the corresponding XML file. the block shows up correctly in GRC when I select it and add it to the flowgraph.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Vanush Vaswani
The polarisation loss in your case might be 30 dB. Have a look into that. Regards, Vanush On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: >> - USRP N210 + WBX >> - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Buffer too small for min_noutput_items (ofdm_carrier_allocator_cvc)

2014-01-29 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
Dear All, Here's a little update: Changing GR_FIXED_BUFFER_SIZE from 32k to 128k solved the problem, but at the cost of quite a slowdown. The problem was, in hindsight, quite obvious. Not a bug, most definitely. My OFDM implementation just needed way too much memory. Thanks, and happy hacking t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Half-Duplex Relay

2014-01-29 Thread Johannes Demel
Hi David, you could consider to tweak the latency [1] of your system between host and USRP. This way your relay is less dependent on that and you can reduce the gaps between packets if the host side signal processing can keep up. If you increase the packet size of your OFDM system you might also c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Half-Duplex Relay

2014-01-29 Thread David Halls
Hi Martin, and all, I am making good progress with the relay. At the source, I transmit packets interspersed with 0's to create a silent period. This is achieved using vector_insert. Perhaps there are better ways, but it works well. Currently the gap is 20ms (2e4 samples at 1e6Ms/s) between tx

[Discuss-gnuradio] can't read fir taps

2014-01-29 Thread Nemanja Savic
Hi all guys, this two lines of code sort of doesn't work as I expect. self.channel_filter = gr.fir_filter_ccf(1, firdes.low_pass(10, samp_rate, 8, 5000, firdes.WIN_HAMMING, 6.76)) print self.channel_filter.taps(), self.channel_filter I use 3.6.5.1 version and the only thing I get is empty t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] synchronization between blocks

2014-01-29 Thread Nemanja Savic
Thank you Tom. The problem is that in the configuration that is attached delay must be arround 600 in order to allign two paths. Next I put a complex delay block in the second path just after the theottle (and removed the existing one) and it works fine with 330 (not perfectly alligned but ok). Is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PyBOMBS issue using recipe with hierarchical git branch.

2014-01-29 Thread Tim
Andrew, Try again with the latest version - this should be fixed now -Tim On 01/29/2014 12:21 PM, Andrew Back wrote: Hello, I tried adding a recipe to PyBOMBS for UHD-Fairwaves, setting gitbranch to "fairwaves/umtrx". However, when I run install, "fairwaves" is stripped from the branch hierar

[Discuss-gnuradio] hier blocks with message output pads

2014-01-29 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Hi there, I am having the following problem: I create a simple hier block in grc and one of the outputs is a message. I added an output pad with message port, but I see two issues: 1) the colour of the pad connection is not exactly the same as the message connection (maybe this implies something

[Discuss-gnuradio] Buffer too small for min_noutput_items (ofdm_carrier_allocator_cvc)

2014-01-29 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
Dear All, I am running OFDM TX-RX in GRC. The parameters used are very similar to those in the TXRX example, with a few differences: - FFT size changed to 1024 - Pilots aren't placed on fixed subcarriers on every symbol index. Every third symbol index has pilots. - I've updated sync_word1, sync_w

[Discuss-gnuradio] PyBOMBS issue using recipe with hierarchical git branch.

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Back
Hello, I tried adding a recipe to PyBOMBS for UHD-Fairwaves, setting gitbranch to "fairwaves/umtrx". However, when I run install, "fairwaves" is stripped from the branch hierarchy and so it fails since there is no branch called simply "umtrx". Guessing there may be a bug in the way in which PyBOM

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] flow graph with high complexity operations

2014-01-29 Thread Nasi
Hi Martin, Thanks! Ok, I attach three  files here. I hope you get from the code what is going on there. ofdm_dictionary_3.cc is the middle components code. After processing inside that I pass data into ofdm_dictionary_2.cc Again, it works for smaller number of int delay_min, int delay_max, in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help about using gr-air-modes

2014-01-29 Thread Nick Foster
Oh! Of course. Yes, that's why I wanted to see the complete output -- timestamps are not kept in the saved samples. You'll only get timestamps if you are viewing live data. --n On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Cheng Chi wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Thanks for your explanation :) > > Today I have coll

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio 3.6.4.1 Windows 7 Install - Wx UI Scope Sink Freeze

2014-01-29 Thread Carl Allen
Hello, I am new to GNU Radio and I followed the new windows install directions listed in the thread "Successful installation of GNURadio 3.6.4.1 on Window XP and Windows 8" for my Windows 7 machine (intel 64 bit OS). Everything installed okay except when I created a simple chain in the gnu radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NTSC Modulation?

2014-01-29 Thread Walker, Robert L CIV NSWC Crane, QXN
I believe Daniel Garcia implemented this successfully a while ago. Check http://www.danielgarcia.info/thesis/ for info. I tested it back in 2007 and it seemed to work, but only when my USRP1/TVRX was connected to cable TV. When hooked to an antenna, apparently the signal was not strong enough

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] synchronization between blocks

2014-01-29 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Nemanja Savic wrote: > Hi all gnuradioers, > > I have a problem to adjust delay between two paths in my flowgraph, and > thus I have a question. The flowgraph is attached. As can be seen, there > are two paths from the input. I would call one signal path and the o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Packet lost

2014-01-29 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
Hi Piotr, I was facing the same issue, and the issue is caused by Schmidl-Cox sometimes detecting the packet boundaries a little late. This cannot really be helped, as channel noise may force the correlator to detect a peak/plateau later than it should. I have found a couple of ways to overcome th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] message passing test

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Neil, yes, this can't work; you can only multiply two numbers if there are two numbers (factors). Which will never be the case, since there has not been a multiplication before the first factor. Message passing can't make an flowgraph that has a s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Questions on rx_ofdm example in GR 3.7.1

2014-01-29 Thread Martin Braun
On 29.01.2014 00:56, Johannes Demel wrote: Hi, The patch in 86845ea15ab8d36f5c196c8ab56e5b77d43b4cf9 did not make it into the 'maint' branch. As this is a bugfix it should be applied on this branch as well. This specific commit is in both maint and master. Sure you didn't mean anything else?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] flow graph with high complexity operations

2014-01-29 Thread Martin Braun
On 29.01.2014 12:30, Nasi wrote: Hi all, I've created a simple flow graph with three components. The first one generates K * L number of values (it is a loop), it passes them to the next one where I do some operations on them. I want it to run just once and then stop it. Therefore In The first c

[Discuss-gnuradio] flow graph with high complexity operations

2014-01-29 Thread Nasi
Hi all, I've created a simple flow graph with three components. The first one generates K * L number of values (it is a loop), it passes them to the next one where I do some operations on them. I want it to run just once and then stop it. Therefore In The first component I add : boost::this_th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help about using gr-air-modes

2014-01-29 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi Nick, Thanks for your explanation :) Today I have collected some data using the same setup, USRP N210 with GPSDO + WBX. The collection is done at the rooftop with open sky. Gain: 20 Sampling Rate: 10M Center Frequency: 1090M Data format: complex float (Use GNUradio Companion for collecting dat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NTSC Modulation?

2014-01-29 Thread Martin Braun
On 29.01.2014 09:48, Jordan Johnson wrote: Googling around and was wondering if anyone has managed to get NTSC (Analog TV) modulation working in GNURadio. I have ATSC up and going, but would like to do some analog stuff too as my old exciter is junk. If not, where do I start? Googling around gi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Sylvain Munaut
Hi, > I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: > - USRP N210 + WBX > - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) > - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. > Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite close, I suppose it > would work mo

[Discuss-gnuradio] NTSC Modulation?

2014-01-29 Thread Jordan Johnson
Googling around and was wondering if anyone has managed to get NTSC (Analog TV) modulation working in GNURadio. I have ATSC up and going, but would like to do some analog stuff too as my old exciter is junk. If not, where do I start? ___ Discuss-gnuradio