Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulation of Intermittent QAM Signal

2017-10-19 Thread Ernest Fardin
gt; "Ernest Fardin" <efar...@ieee.org> > Cc: > "GNURadio Discussion List" <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org> > Sent: > Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:11:50 -0700 > Subject: > Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulation of Intermittent QAM Signal > > > Hello Ernes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulation of Intermittent QAM Signal

2017-10-18 Thread Kyeong Su Shin
Hello Ernest Fardin: As you thought, synchronization loops in the PSK/QAM demod blocks may wander off if you input noise into those blocks. I asked a same question before, and the answer was not to feed in any data to the QAM demod block when you think the transmitter is not on. I did not try

[Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulation of Intermittent QAM Signal

2017-10-17 Thread Ernest Fardin
Hi, I have a simple QAM16 loopback (Gray code, diff encoding, 4 sps) working as follows: QAM Mod ---> Throttle ---> QAM Demod This works fine if I have a constant signal level from the Tx. However, if I add a variable gain between the Tx and Rx and drop the Tx level to zero, then restore the Tx