Re: Headless Airspy operation on Raspberry Pi

2022-01-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/3/22 13:04, Glen Langston wrote: Hello and Happy New Year to all, We’ve just released a version of the Raspberry PI OS that works with Airspy R2 and Airspy Mini, as well as SDRPlay RSP1A, PlutoSdr and RTL-SDR. Nicely done!

Re: Gnuradio 3.8 on embedded [ARM] systems

2021-12-01 Thread Lamar Owen
[I know, I know, necro-replying... but the thread has recent posts.] On 5/26/20 2:59 PM, jean-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr wrote: ..., we have put together a short documentation on using Buildroot to generate an image supporting GNU Radio including Osmosdr DVB-T source, USRP (libuhd) sources an

Re: Gnuradio 3.8 on a Raspberry pi 4 B?

2021-11-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/25/21 5:52 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi Lamar! ... I don't want to get into this again, honestly, we have like six or seven threads on this mailing list. Marcus, Sorry if I come across as a bit abrasive; that's not the intent. Nor am I wanting to overstate the point, or just co

Re: Gnuradio 3.8 on a Raspberry pi 4 B?

2021-11-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 25, 2021 8:15 AM, Marcus Müller wrote:... Honestly, a RPi4 would just go to waste with me! If you want to crowdsource one for the greater good of the SDR community, I'd say: Radioastronomy outreach, or ham radio, that's the two things I'd think a RPi4 would make the biggest impact.Rad

Re: Stop making unneeded improvements

2021-01-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/13/21 10:13 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 01/12/2021 02:51 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: I'm trying to debug and patch the UHD stack for USRP1 with DBS-RX daughterboard; it just quit working, and while I've reported to the UHD list no action has been taken to fix the regression. I w

Re: Stop making unneeded improvements

2021-01-12 Thread Lamar Owen
us back of now. Yes, I know PROGRESS.  And progress is certainly needed; but progress can be painful.  So while I'm not complaining per se, I do want to echo the concerns that especially Glen has raised. -- pari <https://www.pari.edu> Lamar Owen, /Chief Technology O

Re: Documenting GNURadio Use.

2021-01-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/5/21 4:27 PM, Glen Langston wrote: Dear Gnuradio folks, Again, I hope the email finds you all well and successful. This email notes that Gnuradio Radio Astronomy software can be used to measure the Noise Figure of amplifiers. We’ve been working on documentation of the process for home r

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 01:28 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Do you *really* want to use GRC on the C2? Doesn't make much sense – a flow graph designed on a normal PC works identically on your C2 (iff all the blocks are there, too). And although I don't really *plan* to use GRC directly on the C2, I just had to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 07:40 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: before I head to bed: I was actually thinking about using a SPEC from any other platform (ie. prolly x86_64) and just fixing a few flags, if at all necessary – the cmake build system will usually deal just fine! So really, if you want bleeding edge, go

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 03:43 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: I would think "probably not" within the 3.7 API version series. There have been plenty of additional features and bug fixes, but whether or not they are critical depends on your needs and applications. But I'd say the burden of proving "can't avoid" is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 03:43 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: You can see the criteria we have for our version numbering here: Tom, thanks for the pointer and for the answers. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Lamar Owen mailto:lo...@pari.edu>> wrote: And that's the crux of my question: con

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 02:56 PM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I use all of my Odroids that run GR in a "headless" mode--I find no reason to do flow-graph development on the device itself, and processing flowgraphs in radio astronomy just don't really need a graphical component to be running on the Odroid.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
[Reply comments in-line.] On 04/28/2016 01:41 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: It's not about not updating – it's about not breaking possible existing usage! RH has to make sure that software stays binary-compatible, so they can't use a different version if it has a different ABI. I not only am aware

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 01:42 PM, West, Nathan wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Lamar Owen <mailto:lo...@pari.edu>> wrote: Does anyone know of any fixes since 3.7.5 that might be considered 'can't avoid?' Personal opinion incoming: Normally I strongly advocat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
Marcus, Thanks for the information. Once EPEL is available for AArch64, it won't be hard at all, as there is already a GNURadio 3.7.5 package with SPEC and such, and at that point it won't be difficult to do. I sent a separate message about that, though. But at the moment EPEL is not a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 01:28 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Do you *really* want to use GRC on the C2? Doesn't make much sense – a flow graph designed on a normal PC works identically on your C2 (iff all the blocks are there, too). I'm doing the 'whole enchilada' for my own educational purposes. The produ

[Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
The EPEL repository for RHEL and its rebuilds currently has a slightly older version of GNUradio in the repo, a 3.7.5. I filed a bug in the EPEL bugzilla as an RFE to update to 3.7.9, but I got an answer back that it is EPEL policy (much like RHEL) to not update to latest version unless it 'ca

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 12:19 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Dear Owen, I'd say the fact that you quickly eat up all your RAM is the best indication for it possibly being a good idea to cross-build for the Odroid on a PC. I've looked into this, but in this particular case I need to build the dependencies fir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/28/2016 12:44 PM, Anon Lister wrote: Nice. I just did an x64 el7, so I only had to source build a few packages. I'd be curious to know what kind of performance you get on that platform. I'll let you know. I am so far very pleased with the performance. Quad 2GHz ARMv8 cores with 2GB

[Discuss-gnuradio] Building on ODroid C2 running CentOS 7 report.

2016-04-28 Thread Lamar Owen
I have been successful in getting CentOS 7 onto an ODroid C2. This is the AArch64 version; armv8, 64-bit. I did run into a bug in build-gnuradio, however. The logic that determines the release number for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6 is flawed. The logic looks for the pattern '*elease*6*' in /etc/redhat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:01:53 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I have a PCIe x16 slot on the mobo, it's a GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H, so I > guess what I really need is a > PCIe GiGE card. Broadcom is the biggest player in this market; eBay item # 150455393659 is one such example and only needs a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 02, 2010 04:40:42 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: > I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets. It's an > RTL8168d-type chip, according to "dmesg". > > Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile > brackets out there? This is for > a 2U server platf

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Coherent de-dispersion

2010-07-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:35:13 am Marcus D. Leech wrote: > Oh, I agree that it's in the tradition of Gnu Radio filters. It's just > that after you've finished reading > paper after paper about FFT filters for de-dispersion, with everything > being expressed in the > frequency domain, it's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FCC creates obstacles for Open Source software radio

2007-07-07 Thread Lamar Owen
eing secured is 'how do I manipulate the operating frequency, power, and mode of this radio?' Discussion, anyone? -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu __

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Spectral smoothing

2007-06-22 Thread Lamar Owen
ou referring to smoothing FFT bins over time or over frequency? General smoothing over time and frequency would be great; smoothing over time is doable now with averaging. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [dttsp-linux] dttsp-ps3

2007-02-03 Thread Lamar Owen
pport built. At least the last time I built on FC5 that was true, but that was older GNUradio. > I went from new toy to Fedora core 5 compiling jack, dttsp, and > gnuradio in a week. We can do business with this. They are available > in numbers (at $599) at my local target and wa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ( An attempt ) to run GNURadio on WinTV : )

2007-01-30 Thread Lamar Owen
ing like that. The btaudio driver will work with baudline; one day I hope to get baudline and the USRP hooked together through JACK, but not yet. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Interpretting results from usrp_rx_cfile.py

2007-01-18 Thread Lamar Owen
asicRX lower frequency cutoff is around 100kHz; lower frequencies don't pass the input transformers. You need an LFRX to go below 100kHz. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended RF Front End for USRP

2006-12-08 Thread Lamar Owen
alkie talkie ? As a clarification, you do not need the BasicRX to use the TVRX unless you want the second channel. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What is USRP oscope showing me?

2006-12-05 Thread Lamar Owen
me with the USRP code. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SWIG 1.3.31 now required on the trunk

2006-11-30 Thread Lamar Owen
'm just curious, as I didn't see much discussion on the list prior to this (or I'm just blind to the messages, one). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu __

[Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative drivers for USRP

2006-11-30 Thread Lamar Owen
back to an ALSA input? Purpose for either is to directly use the USRP with Baudline. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Who Uses GNU Radio?

2006-10-09 Thread Lamar Owen
at stuff back up once I get plone running on lamarowen.net. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnura

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Who Uses GNU Radio?

2006-10-09 Thread Lamar Owen
ymers.com/radioastronomy) for more information on the gr_radio_astronomy module, though. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mayday, Mayday, flex2400 is down

2006-09-26 Thread Lamar Owen
be too hard or anything, just relating the reality of Ettus Research being a small, niche, manufacturer and unable to underwrite free repairs (because the repair is not going to be free for Ettus). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which language is used on the FPGA of USRP?

2006-09-25 Thread Lamar Owen
ite. All the verilog code is in the USRP source distribution. Matt can give you more details. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ D

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Progress with the gr-radio-astronomy code

2006-09-21 Thread Lamar Owen
shes are 85 feet in diameter, but rather old. This means we have a job just keeping them running, and keeping up with lightning hits and such. But things are a'happenin' albeit somewhat slowly. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Ins

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-19 Thread Lamar Owen
recording of the 20Khz or so of post-detector signal. Hmm, sounds like a candidate for pulsar detection testing. After all, the pulsar looks just like a radar, with a rotating continuous beam -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

2006-06-28 Thread Lamar Owen
itory rsynced to the master repos helps on the bandwidth side). The CentOS updates comprise far less volume on the machines that don't use the kde-redhat repository; those that do use kde-redhat can get a hundred MB or so per month since that repository includes later OpenOffice.org packag

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

2006-06-26 Thread Lamar Owen
eding edge have conspired to cause me to go with FC5 the needs being driven by GNUradio in part, and Plone in part. > But with YUM, it's relatively painless to "keep up". Depending upon your bandwidth, at least. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct idiom for frequency-setting when you don't have a tuner-type daughtercard?

2006-06-26 Thread Lamar Owen
t; result of 'r' being zero on return from > > > r = usrp.tune(foo). > > Does the hardware in question have two Rx daughterboards installed? > Perhaps you were neglecting to set the -R option > on the command line? Yes, the particular USRP Marcus was using had a Basi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

2006-06-26 Thread Lamar Owen
build on CentOS 4, though. On FC5 the build was pretty painless, once I found an SDCC package that worked. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded systems with gnuradio

2006-05-31 Thread Lamar Owen
or wxPython (and its dependencies).  I think it needs python-numeric; been awhile since I've traversed the dependency chain for GNUradio since FC5 has everything needed built. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC  28

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Bandwidth of the USRP daughter boards

2006-05-31 Thread Lamar Owen
d. Keep that in mind in the presence of interfering signals. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded systems with gnuradio

2006-05-31 Thread Lamar Owen
ax, unless you want to do chopped sampling like the SDR-14 does at the higher bandwidth settings. > 1. Building an USRP for such an embedded device. The OpenEmbedded project builds usrp and friends, but not the GNUradio python stuff. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
nd communications, and I for one > would like to see as many students get their hands on this stuff as > possible and provide the necessary cooperation and competition to push it > to new heights. Yea, and Amen. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Resea

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR Design Competition

2006-05-18 Thread Lamar Owen
o change engineering practice, we have to get students using the tools. To get them using the tools incentives have to be provided.  Although, there are quite a few students using the GNUradio toolkit already. Not directed at John, but to Al: none of these students or their faculty deserve the epi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Other backend frameworks and such.

2006-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
Seeing the traffic on Ptolemy, has anyone tried out kst (part of the KDE project) as a backend? I'm going to, in my copious free time... :-) KST: http://kst.kde.org Claims to be "...the fastest real-time large-dataset viewing a plotting tool available..." -- Lamar O

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Modem and/or ADSL Daughter card

2006-05-04 Thread Lamar Owen
can elaborate, being that he is employed in that field. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Amateur television ATV

2006-04-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:25, Matt Ettus wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > If it's true DSB AM, then just tune to one side, filtering out one > > sideband, and treat it as single sideband. Would want to watch out for > > aliasing, of course, from the rejected sid

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Amateur television ATV

2006-04-26 Thread Lamar Owen
ss you're real good, and set it so that the aliased sideband folds into the passband perfectly... :-) the sidebands are, after all, identical in AM. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC build note for Fedora Core 5

2006-04-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:40, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 14:25, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Building gnuradio-core and friends now. > > gnuradio-core built and installed, passing its test suite. > ditto gr-audio-alsa, gr-audio-oss, gr-usrp, gr-wxgui, gnuradio-exa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC build note for Fedora Core 5

2006-04-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:25, Lamar Owen wrote: > Building gnuradio-core and friends now. gnuradio-core built and installed, passing its test suite. ditto gr-audio-alsa, gr-audio-oss, gr-usrp, gr-wxgui, gnuradio-examples, gr-gsm-fr-vocoder, gr-howto-write-a-block. Looks like it worked so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC build note for Fedora Core 5

2006-04-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:02, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:45:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I upgraded my box to FC5, and have been working on getting GNUradio/usrp > > built. I ran into a problem building SDCC; I have gotten the 4/21/2006 > > snaps

[Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC build note for Fedora Core 5

2006-04-21 Thread Lamar Owen
n FC5. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HDTV and Microtune 4937 eval board

2006-03-27 Thread Lamar Owen
0 >instead.Once I've mastered all the tricks decoding ATSC RF stream, I'll >move to USRP and play with it. If you need help, I have an mc4020 here that's not installed anywhere that I can plug in to a PC and try the build. I believe Eric or Matt or both have one or more. --

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HDTV and Microtune 4937 eval board

2006-03-21 Thread Lamar Owen
to get the HDTV stuff running on the current code :-) -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnu

[Discuss-gnuradio] Sourceforge CVS up again?

2006-03-20 Thread Lamar Owen
It seems as of 18:11 EST Sourceforge CVS is back up; I was able to get a checkout of usrp. Yep, got a fresh checkout twice. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Hardware Notes

2006-03-14 Thread Lamar Owen
, that's for sure Although the last two defacements have been information truncations, deleting most of the information. Eric, I know the philosophy behind Wiki's, but, is it possible to combat the wikispam in some way? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astron

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SuSE 10.0 build experience

2006-03-11 Thread Lamar Owen
g it 'fixed' took a little while. Linux Magazine's site has information (this is the UK Linux Magazine, BTW). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Short pulses and ringing

2006-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
o maybe there are no series caps. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
ese. Published by Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540-21119-5. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
n you use. The 2.6 kernel-supplied XFS code has some problems, and you really need the latest SGI code instead. The CentOS 4 group is working on an XFS-enabled kernel with the newer code. Not sure where SuSE and Ubuntu/Debian stand. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stereo gain "hacked"

2006-02-13 Thread Lamar Owen
a broadcast engineer for 16 years, ten of which were on a full time basis). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] byte-wide ADC transfers

2006-01-16 Thread Lamar Owen
lower level usage. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TCVCXO

2006-01-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 13 January 2006 14:40, Marcus Leech wrote: > I have a couple of temperature-compensated voltage-controlled crystal > oscillators in cans. > > Anybody want 'em? > > They're made by CTS Knight, and have a nominal frequency of 10.240Mhz. Yes. How much? Docs

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_* gains on Mac OS X much greater than on Linux

2005-12-21 Thread Lamar Owen
nt gain of 256. I would tend to agree; PowerPC is big endian, IIRC. So endian-agnostic routines need to be used at the USRP level as well, it seems. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software controlled antenna

2005-12-20 Thread Lamar Owen
signed to be quite broadband, useful for beam-forming from 29 to 47MHz. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software controlled antenna

2005-12-20 Thread Lamar Owen
we/eta/ for details on a big phased array project being built at PARI. The short form: imagine repointing a dish after the observation has been taken. 12 terabytes per day required storage. Big time phased array; uses multiple Xilinx XC2VP30 boards (ML310) for the beam forming calcu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sparc <--> x86 data exchange

2005-12-20 Thread Lamar Owen
[back onlist; my fault for not reply-all] On Tuesday 20 December 2005 14:41, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Certainly. But if I save a file on one arch it should be able to be > > played back on another without me having to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sparc <--> x86 data exchange

2005-12-20 Thread Lamar Owen
solder (Python), you need to learn what each component does, and you need to a have a grasp of what you want the result to do. Building devices from parts is non-trivial; image having to build those parts. GNUradio is like a kit of IC's ready made that you need to wire together and sol

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sparc <--> x86 data exchange

2005-12-19 Thread Lamar Owen
board, and a USB headset (and a Linux laptop, of course) that would make a killer multimode QRP 440 rig. I just need to make a frontpanel, so to speak. But ergonomic engineers and designers are paid small fortunes for good frontpanels from the hardware radio manufacturers. Frontpanel and functionali

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio 2.6 release!

2005-12-10 Thread Lamar Owen
elease > using the tarballs and did it install the docs for gnuradio-core? Did you download the gnuradio-core-2.6-doc.tar.gz? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Viewing square wave in usrp_oscope

2005-12-07 Thread Lamar Owen
display square waves at 500kHz, 1MHz, and 2MHz. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio in Solaris - progress report

2005-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
if it would be of help. Solaris 10 should be closer to the Linux API; there is a linux personality module for it, at least on i386 hardware. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New FPGA bitstream

2005-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
h, and not as steep of skirts. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] setgid directories / usb permissions

2005-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
gt; mount options to usbfs. Not sure if it is fixed in FC4. Well, I'll admit to running the GNUradio stuff as root, but there are some other reasons. However, these are things that the RPM %post scriptlet will need to deal with. Filing it away for future use :-) -- Lamar Owen Director

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Lamar Owen
indeed has a date of this morning, other than that I don't know which revision I have. Also, is there a quick way of getting a status from the usrp to see which version of the various bits are loaded? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Lamar Owen
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:35:55PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> To answer my own point, yes, the older code did impact the shape. Using >> the latest CVS usrp_fft.py as a base instead of the version I used. >> Using >> the newer, I get consistent shapes; although

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Lamar Owen
>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:16:09AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> With a decimation rate of 8 and a DDC center frequency at 10.7MHz, I see >> better than -10dB at the band edge now, which is a greater than 20dB >> improvement in flatness. Very nice. > Attached a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Lamar Owen
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:16:09AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > With a decimation rate of 8 and a DDC center frequency at 10.7MHz, I see > better than -10dB at the band edge now, which is a greater than 20dB > improvement in flatness. Very nice. Attached are some captures of pl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Lamar Owen
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:16:09AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Monday 24 October 2005 22:19, Eric Blossom wrote: >> > Matt's been hard at work on the halfband filter for the FPGA, and it's >> > in pretty good shape. As long as you're not using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-24 Thread Lamar Owen
dwidth easily with this. I will attempt to try this out tomorrow on the PARI pulsar system, since it is currently tracking CVS, and the FFT curves are well characterized against the passband of the frontend there, and I know the hot-cold difference, passband shape, etc really well at this p

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module name gnuradio

2005-10-24 Thread Lamar Owen
except to build, etc). Of course, if you want to build from source that is your prerogative. But a user shouldn't be forced to do so to use the system. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.p

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module name gnuradio

2005-10-24 Thread Lamar Owen
;rpmbuild --rebuild' command (with a few --define options required for a clean build). I do that often, since CentOS4/RHEL4 isn't a default supported distribution for wxPython. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Ro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module name gnuradio

2005-10-24 Thread Lamar Owen
Widgets installed? More to the point, what does 'ls -l /usr/lib/libwx*' say, and what does 'ls -l /usr/local/lib/libwx*' say? If wxWidgets is in /usr/local/lib, did you make sure /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig after building wxWidgets? -- Lamar Owen Dire

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module name gnuradio

2005-10-24 Thread Lamar Owen
go to the file? You need to redirect stdout and stderr both; either using nohup to do it or you can use the bash '&>' redirect, which is semantically equivalent to '>file 2>&1' (See the bash man page (man bash) under the section 'Redirecting Standa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp firmware

2005-08-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 26 August 2005 02:19, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: > where do I find the current USRP firmware suitable to run CVS-current? Is > it still the same as found in the usrp-0.5.tgz archive? Try http://comsec.com/usrp/usrp_fpga_rev2_2005_07_30.rbf for this. -- Lamar Owen Director of Infor

CVS changes (was:Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New version of mingw patch with working createfilemapping and resolved backslash problems)

2005-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
ou need testers for some of this? How dangerous to USRP hardware could tracking fpga CVS be? I see several changes in the current CVS, and it looks interesting. You must have read the Web fad article, seeing the All Your Frequency Are Belong to Us code example. :-) -- Lamar Owen Director

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative interface from PC to a USRP.

2005-07-11 Thread Lamar Owen
rect execution on the hardware (without writing a single line of Verilog). If you want to write a Verilog block to help, you can, but you're not forced into it. Incidentally, the 'SRC' in SRC Computers is a man's initials. A relative unknown by the name of Seymo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative interface from PC to a USRP.

2005-07-11 Thread Lamar Owen
and up to 6GB/s I/O bandwidth for things like ADC's. They are not cheap. We were going to do algorithm development on a USRP prior to spending the hundreds of kilobucks for the MAPstation stuff. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Res

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative interface from PC to a USRP.

2005-07-09 Thread Lamar Owen
t; intervention. Does that mean its possible to send data from the USRP to > multiple hosts connected on the same SCSI bus? Yes. > By the way I think that gigabit is 1Gbps full-duplex ie: 2Gbps. Sure, if you are doing both transmit and receive. But you would be limited to 1Gb/s for receive-

[Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative interface from PC to a USRP.

2005-07-09 Thread Lamar Owen
-bit PCI-X U320 screamer. 4.) External and internal interfaces available. 5.) Ability to process and redirect streams from one USRP to another one without CPU intervention over the SCSI bus. Comments? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Instit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble with TV Rx boards

2005-06-30 Thread Lamar Owen
em to remember a similar error back when I first got my USRP with a TVRX (on side 1) and was trying to use the 2.5 code. I've been tracking CVS for some time now, so I've forgotten the exact error I got that first time, but it sounds similar. -- Lamar Owen Director of Infor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bandswitch and rf gain added to HF Explorer

2005-06-30 Thread Lamar Owen
ns you zeroed, and the leakage is defined by the window (which just happens to have the same shape as a filter kernel, but I digress). Adding points on an FFT is basically the same thing as adding taps on a filter, both computationally (in terms of CPU load) and spectrally. -- Lamar Owen Dire

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-06-28 Thread Lamar Owen
ir USRP with machines that don't have linux installed. Is there a later iso than this one available now, or are we not up to that yet? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ethernet concerns, non-bandwidth

2005-06-28 Thread Lamar Owen
llows multiple machines to query the box, but doesn't do AAA, which, in a control situation on a switched ethernet, is very bad. There are significant non-bandwidth issues to using ethernet, and multiuser operation is one of them. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomica

Re: GigE (was Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DSP based SDR)

2005-06-25 Thread Lamar Owen
rself. :-) Power over Ethernet; in a guitar of all things. Priceless. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Release, website, and other notes.

2005-06-24 Thread Lamar Owen
with the USRP is as a time-domain-reflectometer and vector network analyzer. I will post progress as I have progress (none yet, other than hardware being purchased). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP for Radioastronomy

2005-06-23 Thread Lamar Owen
zero doppler hydrogen line frequency of approx 1420.4 > MHz. Anything to the left is receding, and anything to the right is > approaching. How did you get the flatter baselines? Was this through the DBS_RX or baseband? Did Charles see this? :-) -- Lamar Owen Director of Information

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