[Discuss-gnuradio] The [hopefully] full story SD Cards

2010-03-04 Thread Matt Ettus
I'll attempt to summarize the SD card situation as I see it. There are 3 main reasons why you might have trouble with SD cards in your USRP2 - - You aren't actually using an SD card. SD Cards have been made in sizes from 8MB up to 2GB. Any card of more than 2 GB is NOT an SD card, it is

[Discuss-gnuradio] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-03-04 Thread Muhammad Amir Pervaiz
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-03-04 Thread Muhammad Amir Pervaiz
LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Muhammad Amir Muhammad Amir Pervaiz Software Engineer at TkXel Pakistan Confirm that you know Muhammad Amir Pervaiz https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/1119880681/bR7w_C3p/ -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rx_timed_samples.cc doesn't stop streaming of samples

2010-03-04 Thread ValentinG
Thanks a lot Josh! Adding return not done() instead of return true did work. I'm running Ubuntu in virtualbox, hence the lack of resources. Couple more questions if you don't mind: 1) Where does the number of items per packet (which is 365 in my case) comes from? Or is it the format USRP2 always

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] The sinusiodal waveform is drifting from input to output.

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 03:26, srinivas naga vutukuri srinivas.vutuk...@gmail.com wrote: I am transmitting the sinusoidal wave form (IQ samples), in the following methods, and found that when i stem plot in

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-howto-write-a-block refactored

2010-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
Hi folks, I just committed a change to gr-howto-write-a-block that now has it install in the howto python namespace instead of in the gnuradio.howto namespace. This allows howto (or other things based on it) to install under a non-system prefix. For systems using binary GR packages, this means

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr_unpack_k_bits_bb, its inverse, and higher order constellations

2010-03-04 Thread Mattias Kjellsson
Eric Blossom wrote: I assume that you mean 1 byte per symbol. I suggest that you create *_ci and *_ii versions that handle 32-bits. Eric You are correct, one byte per symbol. Or one symbol per byte, whichever way one wants to look at it. To clarify what the custom block does is that it takes K

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr_unpack_k_bits_bb, its inverse, and higher order constellations

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mattias Kjellsson m...@kth.se wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: I assume that you mean 1 byte per symbol. I suggest that you create *_ci and *_ii versions that handle 32-bits. Eric You are correct, one byte per symbol. Or one symbol per byte, whichever way one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] The sinusiodal waveform is drifting from input to output.

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 06:59, Tom Rondeau trondeau1...@gmail.com wrote: A fun thing to do on the USRPs is to blow on the crystal while it's transmitting. If you transmit a tone with usrp_siggen.py and receive it using usrp_fft.py with a high decimation rate (so you're only looking at a fairly

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr_unpack_k_bits_bb, its inverse, and higher order constellations

2010-03-04 Thread Mattias Kjellsson
Tom Rondeau wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mattias Kjellsson m...@kth.se wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: I assume that you mean 1 byte per symbol. I suggest that you create *_ci and *_ii versions that handle 32-bits. Eric You are correct, one byte per symbol. Or one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread Andy_Long
Hi Johnathan, appreciate for your help. I have bought another brand (ADATA) 2GB SD card today and did the same thing as before since I can not find any Kingston card available in shop. 1. I downloaded txrx.bin and u2_rev3.bin files from http://gnuradio.org/releases/usrp2-bin/trunk/ and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr_unpack_k_bits_bb, its inverse, and higher order constellations

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Mattias Kjellsson m...@kth.se wrote: Tom Rondeau wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mattias Kjellsson m...@kth.se wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: I assume that you mean 1 byte per symbol. I suggest that you create *_ci and *_ii versions that handle 32-bits.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Brook Lin
Hi All, When we use any of the USRP daughterboard to transmit, do we need the authorization? For example, FRX900 includes the cell phone bands in US. If we use FRX900 to transmit, do we violate the FCC rule? Or, we could legally use any daughterboard on any band that falls in the frequency

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 08:51, Andy_Long luckshiw...@yahoo.com.cn wrote: I have bought another brand (ADATA) 2GB SD card today and did the same thing as before since I can not find any Kingston card available in shop. 3. Using sudo ./u2_flash_tool --dev=/dev/mmcblk0p1 -t s/w txrx.bin �Cw I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread Andy_Long
I used the SD card with the laptop built-in reader. Actucally it is a bit difficult to buy a mmc card in shop now. :) I will try to use the other SD reader outside the laptop to see the difference. thank you. Andy Johnathan Corgan-2 wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 08:51, Andy_Long

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Blum
3. Using sudo ./u2_flash_tool --dev=/dev/mmcblk0p1 -t s/w txrx.bin �Cw I'm a litttle concerned that you have an MMC card and not an SD card, based on the device name that gets created when you insert the card into your read/writer. Using SD cards, I've only ever seen Ubuntu generate devices

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Jason Uher
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Brook Lin gnu.f...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, When we use any of the USRP daughterboard to transmit, do we need the authorization? For example, FRX900 includes the cell phone bands in US. If we use FRX900 to transmit, do we violate the FCC rule? Or, we could

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:48, Brook Lin gnu.f...@yahoo.com wrote: When we use any of the USRP daughterboard to transmit, do we need the authorization? For example, FRX900 includes the cell phone bands in US. If we use FRX900 to transmit, do we violate the FCC rule? Or, we could legally use

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rx_timed_samples.cc doesn't stop streaming of samples

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Blum
Couple more questions if you don't mind: 1) Where does the number of items per packet (which is 365 in my case) comes from? Or is it the format USRP2 always uses to send the data to the host? Its probably the MTU (1500 bytes) minus the ip/udp/ethernet headers sizes minus the size of the vrt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:24, Jason Uher jasonu...@gmail.com wrote: ...with the RFX900 you can transmit safely in the ISM band. And others as long as you are below the transmit power thresholds (which are quite low). I (perhaps mistakenly) thought that in order to be in compliance with FCC

[Discuss-gnuradio] Enabling the cognitive radio with GNU Radio+USRP

2010-03-04 Thread Jakub Moskal
Hi everyone, I am trying to use the GNU-Radio+USRP to implement a cognitive radio use case in which radios exchange information (XML-based documents) between each other in order to achieve a defined goal (e.g. to improve connectivity), without disturbing the usual communication. I have several

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rx_timed_samples.cc doesn't stop streaming of samples

2010-03-04 Thread ValentinG
And the offset seems to be positive, i.e. the packet timestamp is the time of the first sample in the packet and not of the last one (referring to my previous calculation: for the sample number 300 in the first packet the timestamp is 35564266+300*16=35569066). I've come up to this conclusion by

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rx_timed_samples.cc doesn't stop streaming of samples

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Blum
On 03/04/2010 11:56 AM, ValentinG wrote: And the offset seems to be positive, i.e. the packet timestamp is the time of the first sample in the packet and not of the last one (referring to my previous calculation: for the sample number 300 in the first packet the timestamp is

[Discuss-gnuradio] Quick question regarding plotting samples captured by usrp_rx_cfile.py against time!!

2010-03-04 Thread Bishal Thapa
Hi, I have a quick question regarding the complex binary samples captured by using usrp_rx_cfile.py. I would like to draw them against time. So, (Magnitude on Y-axis and Time on X-axis) in matlab. I was able to do the following 1. ./usrp_rx_cfile.py -f 2.5G capture.dat 2. d =

RE : [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK demodulation : g et exact point before deciding what is the closest constel lation point

2010-03-04 Thread Christophe.Paring
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:03:28PM -0500, christophe.par...@etsmtl.ca wrote: Hi all ! I am dealing with PSK (BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK) modulation/demodulation ; in demodulation, I would want to retrieve the exact point (vector) before finding the closest constellation point. K Is there

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:15, Jason Uher jasonu...@gmail.com wrote: You are right, unless your device is pre-approved by the FCC you can't legally transmit in unlicensed bands. I was under the impression that the USRPs status as 'test equipment' allowed transmission in unlicensed bands (like

[Discuss-gnuradio] Loop-back on the same USRP

2010-03-04 Thread Christophe.Paring
Hi all ! I have only one USRP2 and would like to use a loop-back cable to connect the output to the input of the same USRP. So I would, for example, run benchmark_tx and benchmark_rx in two different shells. Can I do it without any worry ? I am asking the question because it seems that many

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread Matt Ettus
On 03/04/2010 11:24 AM, Josh Blum wrote: 3. Using sudo ./u2_flash_tool --dev=/dev/mmcblk0p1 -t s/w txrx.bin �Cw I'm a litttle concerned that you have an MMC card and not an SD card, based on the device name that gets created when you insert the card into your read/writer. Using SD cards,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Loop-back on the same USRP

2010-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:37, christophe.par...@etsmtl.ca wrote: I have only one USRP2 and would like to use a loop-back cable to connect the output to the input of the same USRP. So I would, for example, run benchmark_tx and benchmark_rx in two different shells. Can I do it without any

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] u2_flash_tool : Can not find the command

2010-03-04 Thread John Gilmore
3. Using sudo ./u2_flash_tool --dev=/dev/mmcblk0p1 -t s/w txrx.bin ¨Cw I'm a litttle concerned that you have an MMC card and not an SD card, based on the device name that gets created when you insert the card into your read/writer. Using SD cards, I've only ever seen Ubuntu generate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread John Gilmore
When we use any of the USRP daughterboard to transmit, do we need the authorization? For example, FRX900 includes the cell phone bands in US. If we use FRX900 to transmit, do we violate the FCC rule? Or, we could legally use any daughterboard on any band that falls in the frequency range of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Pozar
To echo what John sent. There are provisions to do testing and very limited radiation from intentional radiators. You can see them outlined in Part 15 of the FCC Rules and Regulations...

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Pozar
There are two things that tend to get conflated here. One is the ability to market and sell products like the USRP and the other is the ability to operate it. Items that radiate and are marketed and sold in the US, typically are subject to certification. Test equipment is subject to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Timothy Newman
Just to kick in our experience at Virginia Tech, we have several STA's because we do a lot of wireless work. I believe this link will take you to our license: https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/ViewGrant.cfm?id_file_num=0013-EX-ST-2010application_seq=43699 The process is not as bad

[Discuss-gnuradio] Quadrature direct-conversion receiver design

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
OK, so this probably seems like a fundamental sort of question, but I've noticed that there seem to be a couple of different places on the net describing quadrature receiver toplogies, and I want to know something fairly simple. For a direct-conversion quadrature receiver, must you phase

[Discuss-gnuradio] implementing an interference source

2010-03-04 Thread cbwangmail
hi everyone i am new to gnuradio, nowadays,i want to build an interference source,but in grc,i just know grc a little and do not implement the interference source.so can anyone help me resolve this problem or give me some advices. the interference source demands QPSK module,500K

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] implementing an interference source

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Blum
See the channel model block. -Josh On 03/04/2010 07:19 PM, cbwangmail wrote: hi everyone i am new to gnuradio, nowadays,i want to build an interference source,but in grc,i just know grc a little and do not implement the interference source.so can anyone help me resolve this problem or give

[Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit legit, become a ham

2010-03-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
As discussed in the licensing thread... In FCC-land the only people that can legally transmit at any kind of real power level using non-certified devices without obtaining specific permission from the FCC are amateur radio operators. Testing with attenuators is an obvious first step, but it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Daughterboard

2010-03-04 Thread Kelly Martin
Brook Lin wrote: Hi All, When we use any of the USRP daughterboard to transmit, do we need the authorization? For example, FRX900 includes the cell phone bands in US. If we use FRX900 to transmit, do we violate the FCC rule? Or, we could legally use any daughterboard on any band that falls in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit legit, become a ham

2010-03-04 Thread Kelly Martin
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Moreover, the amateur license gives you a ready and simple explanation for anyone who might want to claim that you possession of radio equipment signals some kind of intent to operate in a forbidden manner. Why do you have all this radio stuff? Are you a terrorist?? No.