Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we measure the frequency offsets between two USRPs?

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
-source producing a SIN wave at, let's say, 1KHz, feed that into a UHD/USRPx sink tuned to whatever your frequency is. The tone will appear at TUNED-FREQUENCY+1KHz. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 16/05/2011 10:26

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we measure the frequency offsets between two USRPs?

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:34 -0500, John Andrews wrote: I am running it at 2.5GHz. What magnitude are the samples you're feeding into the USRP sink? --n Also, by default the RFX2400 has a TX filter that's centered at 2.441GHz and about 85Mhz wide at the 3dB points. So, there'll be some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] unable to locate an audio module

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
-I'm also running OS11.4. OS11.4 KDE by default uses pulseaudio as audio-system which might cause some trouble there :), especially if you haven't installed ALSA or OSS. If you change to ALSA direct, you'll have the problem that GNURadio wants the audio hardware exclusively for itself, which

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we measure the frequency offsets between two USRPs?

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
flowgraph with USRP sink and FFT block only. USRP Sink: 1. Decimation - 64 2. Frequency - 2.5GHz 3. Gain (dB) - 10 FFT sink has proper settings too. I am not using any filters as I hope the SNR is high enough. Thanks On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD examples/apps

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2011 09:22 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Aha, no clocking options were implemented on USRP1. Thats why you see the error. I suppose it would be better to properly handle setting clock config even though its not really configurable. -Josh ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD examples/apps

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2011 09:50 PM, Josh Blum wrote: no, many of the parameters when left default yield no code. Part of the goal of generating nice simple readable code. -Josh Hmmm, this will require some thinkage. I just ran into a *similar* problem when running Tom's uhd_fft.py on a BASIC_RX,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD examples/apps

2011-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2011 10:22 PM, Josh Blum wrote: The UHD should handle all cases and throw a reasonable error like no antennas to select. Those neglected properties should be filled in for the sake of completeness. Whether or not to use an empty string as a pass-through, not so sure. It seems

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A few words on development

2011-05-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
What it seems to come down to is a lack of initiative. We are all willing to wait until someone else does something for us, and then report on the problems. But it's hard to start something and push it out there. First, you expose yourself to criticism and bug reports. You might feel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ptime get_time(void) precision down to millisec microsec nanosec ?

2011-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 19/05/2011 3:13 PM, Bastien Auneau wrote: why should I use set_time_next_pps() ? Is it needed to init USRP lock to GPS time ? Keep in mind that the PPS support pre-dates the existence of an in skin GPSDO, and the *primary* purpose of the GPSDO is to provide a stable 10MHz reference clock

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM demod Error in GRC

2011-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 19/05/2011 1:21 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: Vlad It is apparent to me that you did not understand Josh's explanation. Possibly he was not forceful enough. ;-). This is not an error. It is the mathematical consequence of doing QAM with rotational symmetries. YOU MUST provide your OWN

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC pure FSK with USRP1 board sampling troubles

2011-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/19/2011 09:49 PM, ikjtel wrote: We're assuming that the design specs for our app say that: USRP underruns are totally unacceptable (is this a realistic goal to have in the real world?) While extended underruns are problematic, a short underrun should be equivalent to a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC pure FSK with USRP1 board sampling troubles

2011-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/19/2011 11:51 PM, ikjtel wrote: Yep - it just so happens that these are digital (P25) channels, not analog ones, but robust detection/correction protocols at the higher levels are there to cope with the occasional glitches... If they fly through the aether, they're analog. Once a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About gr_buffer_add_reader

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/24/2011 01:26 AM, Eddie Sun wrote: Hi list, I have a USRP N210, running on Ubuntu-10.04, when I try to use the Gnuradio-Companion to make a fm_receiver, I success generate the python code, but when i try to run it, it shows

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Simulink and USRP

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi, There is some information on the mathworks site for this http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/comm/ref/a1083164701.html#bsnml9_ http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/comm/ref/usrp2receiver.html http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-CUN7JZ/?solution=1-CUN7JZ

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Synchronization issue with multiple USRPs

2011-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 25/05/2011 12:01 PM, Marc Epard wrote: On May 25, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Josh Blum wrote: 2) Calibrate the setup. After you tune, the daughterboard LOs will have different constant phase offsets. In my experience (with a WBX in a USRP2 and a DBSRX2 in an N210), the phase offsets can change

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Alexander is asking excellent questions and I'm surprised at the tepid response -- he's got like 4 replies so far? He's the prototype GNU radio user who needs to maintain his group's IP, he should be receiving how to's, not INALs. -Jeff Actually, IANAL is a perfectly-valid response. IP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building gnuradio 3.3.0 on Fedora 15 (issue with SDCC)

2011-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/25/2011 09:01 PM, Arturo Rinaldi wrote: i have an issue regarding the SDCC executable in the building of gnuradio 3.3.0 on Fedora 15. I set up the PATH in my *.bashrc* file as : /export PATH=/usr/libexec/sdcc:$PATH /as written in the build guide but I still get the error in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unexpected energy peak sensing thermal noise and using usrp_spectrum_sense.py

2011-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Thank you for answering but I cannot understand what you mean with The USRP is not a measurement receiver. If USRP was not a measurement receiver, which is its utility? Moreover, if it is not a measurement receiver what is the result memorized in m.data that is the output of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 26/05/2011 9:55 AM, Michael Dickens wrote: It would be great if you could share with the list example code snippets of how you do the pipes. For example: Where in an online repository one can find such code. I think that's what Jeff was getting at: that we are providing IANAL advice

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 problem, UHD problem, and one suggestion

2011-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
USRP1: - When we have a very simple flowgraph with a USRP1 sink connected to a signal source and a USRP1 source connected to a WX scope- trying to shut down the app using the close box causes the USB on the host system to freeze up requiring a reboot. Yanking USRP power or ctrl+c'ing avoids

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 problem, UHD problem, and one suggestion

2011-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/26/2011 08:06 PM, Nick Foster wrote: The alignment I'm talking about wasn't even relative between RX and TX- it was between branches of the RX path such as the real and imaginary components of that path when viewed on the scope. So, you're talking about splitting I/Q for the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 problem, UHD problem, and one suggestion

2011-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
By default Gnu Radio now schedules each block in its own CPU thread. So there could be differences in instantaneous latencies down each path. Also- whether a data is processed at the same time in terms of physical timeslices in the real world isn't so important, but by

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] libusb-0.1 versus libusb-1.0

2011-05-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
So after discovering that while I had libusb-devel-0.1 and libusb1-devel-1.0.3 installed on my RHEL-6 machine here (and ubuntu), gnuradio compiled against 0.1 despite 0.1 being ancient and unsupported. I then removed libusb-devel and gnuradio fails to configure. I believe that Gnu Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] libusb-0.1 versus libusb-1.0

2011-05-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
The issue isn't duration- its when the flowgraph shuts down- as the other thread from someone else is experiencing- it seems to be when the flowgraph calls lock()/unlock() and stop(). It also only occurs on bi-directional flowgraphs. But I do agree that there's an improper shutdown- though I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
How do the companies write closed-source drivers for the Linux Kernel without running into GPL2 issues? I can only recall that there is a user-land and a kernel-land driver, where the kernel-land is the only part that is open source. Is this correct? Perhaps that method could work well? I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Cool! It would be truly great to see a simplified example of this in the GnuRadio repository, and at least somehow mentioned on the wiki. Yes, I suppose it would. I'll put it on my list, but so many other things to do :-( The other trick that I use is to use the XMLRPC server stuff that Josh

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Problem here is that FIFO's are not very well suited for real-time operation, IIRC. Have you tried a shared memory and shared signals across applications? It depends on what you mean by real time. Certainly FIFO I/O will be slower than intra-flowgraph ring buffers, but not so horribly

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Real-time is not about performance, but about predictability ;) I have to be sure that my flowgraph always executes before the deadline is hit. So everything that introduces jitter is a no-no. In general, Gnu Radio executes on general-purpose OSes, which means that there will *always* be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Is there information about what is the biggest latency-injector in GnuRadio? Nearly all of the basic computational blocks are as blazing-fast as they can be on a general-purpose CPU. The biggest latency injector is the scheduler in general, and the buffer management part of that scheduler

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA mo

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi all, I'm not sure whether to post this to GnuRadio or to USRP-users, so I post it here. We've started a project to implement a custom SDR hardware (which we plan to open-source later) and we want to reuse as much of USRP FPGA code as possible. But it will require a good deal of customization

[Discuss-gnuradio] FIFO latency

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I evaluated latency of a FIFO (actually an ordinary pipe, but the kernel mechanisms are identical), and measured 30usecs average on my 1.2GHz AMD Phenom system with plenty 'o memory. I sent timestamps across the FIFO (struct timeval), and the reader grabbed the local time of day, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIFO latency

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 22:06, Marcus D. Leechmle...@ripnet.com wrote: I evaluated latency of a FIFO (actually an ordinary pipe, but the kernel mechanisms are identical), and measured 30usecs average on my 1.2GHz AMD Phenom system with plenty 'o memory. I sent timestamps across the FIFO

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] libusb1 not the solution to USRP crashing

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/28/2011 03:11 PM, Brett L. Trotter wrote: I just discovered the not well published --with-fusb-tech=libusb1 option to configure, hoping to resolve the USRP1 non-uhd crashing issues myself and one other person are seeing when the flowgraphs do a lock or stop. Unfortunately, I still see the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIFO latency

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/28/2011 06:28 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Just want to throw this out there because it seems relevant: http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/gruel/src/include/gruel/high_res_timer.h?h=wip/high_res_timerid=71b911d28a391ad0c67540e3658a6680d7449e1f Yup, I know about clock_gettime(). But

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIFO latency

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/28/2011 04:28 PM, Alexander Chemeris wrote: So, while this method is simple and good for non-realtime applications, it doesn't fit our needs. It may be usable for PHY-MAC interaction, but even here I'm not sure it would work well. PS I test on Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz with all the GUI stuff

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

2011-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I thought the 1 thread execution scheduler was deprecated in gnuradio? al fayez You may still turn it off, but the TPB scheduling policy is now the default. -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal coming from the USRP to the computer

2011-05-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/29/2011 04:50 PM, John Andrews wrote: Hi All, I want to know what is the signal coming from the USRP onto the USB bus. I know that the received signal is a baseband signal and assuming complex sampling (I have RFX2400 daughterboards) each complex sample that enters the USB bus is the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb: (rd status -2) No such file or directory

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 30/05/2011 8:20 AM, Johannes Schmitz wrote: The error is coming from the kernel. Can you describe your system setup? We tried to run the code on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04. Every time we get the fusb error :( It seems we have to throw away our USRP1's and move to USRP2... Johannes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb: (rd status -2) No such file or directory

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 30/05/2011 9:41 AM, Johannes Schmitz wrote: we did not try it under UHD. Honestly I don't have any experience with UHD. But do you want to say that the traditional API is not supported anymore? If yes, what is the best way to get started with UHD? Johannes The traditional API is no longer

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FIFO latency

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 30/05/2011 9:51 AM, Alexander Chemeris wrote: Linux' pipe implementation is known to be quite slow. I would suggest to use UNIX sockets instead. They should perform much better in terms of latency and performance. Good idea. I'm dubious of such a claim--the core mechanisms between

[Discuss-gnuradio] Latency measurements with Unix-domain sockets

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I used the following two little programs: unixdomain.c == #include stdio.h #include sys/socket.h #include sys/un.h #include unistd.h #include string.h #include sys/time.h #include time.h int main (void) { struct sockaddr_un address; int socket_fd, nbytes; char

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb: (rd status -2) No such file or directory

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/30/2011 07:29 PM, Thomas Tsou wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Johannes Schmitzjsem...@gmx.de wrote: We tried to run the code on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04. Every time we get the fusb error :( It seems we have to throw away our USRP1's and move to USRP2... I'm not able to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_fft.py and USRP N210

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi, I was running uhd_fft.py on USRP N210 with TVRX2 daughter-board. I get mysterious peak at every 100 MHz center frequency i.e. 100MHz, 200 MHz, even though no antenna is connected. Please help me what is wrong. Thanks you, Rahul Two things: There is almost always an anomaly near

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb: (rd status -2) No such file or directory

2011-05-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Brett L. Trotter br...@webtrotter.com wrote: I've seen the error with both fusb tech libusb1 and 0.1 as well as on various desktops and laptops and operating systems from various vendors. For what its worth, our USRPs are low serial number (no software

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM on USRP2

2011-05-31 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/31/2011 10:15 AM, vanITA1082 wrote: Thanks. However we are trying to transmit a packet from a usrp n210 to another usrp n210 and we are searching for examples do to this simple operation. How is it possible that are not out there? Do you know any source of simple examples? Thanks

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reintallation of GNU Radio software to work with UHD USRP2

2011-05-31 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/31/2011 08:07 PM, hafiz zimran wrote: Thanks for help. I have installed C++ Compiler and followed the instructions as given in http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/build.html Now I have connected usrp2 to PC ( Ubuntu 10.04, gnuradio-3.2.2) and run the command sudo uhd_find_devices

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How is it possible that I receive a packet from the same USRP that transmitted it?

2011-06-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/01/2011 03:41 PM, Thomas Arcuri wrote: Hello all, Currently I am testing a modified version of tunnel.py, but I am seeing some strange results. My modifications were essentially a re-factoring to prepare for future additions, however somehow I was able to receive a transmitted packet

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/01/2011 10:10 PM, Yang wrote: Oh, my problem is the same with yours: I want to change transmit frequency according to the sensing result from rx side. I tried lock() and unlock() but cannot work. You know that you can change frequency at any time, right? You don't have to lock the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/01/2011 10:35 PM, Yang wrote: I see you mention your rx and tx chains running at the same time, is it possible? Absolutely! As long as the underlying hardware supports full-duplex operation. -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/01/2011 11:07 PM, Yang wrote: Would you like to expand it in detail or refer me to some places I can look for? Dose this need 2 antennas on 1 daughterboard? It would be great if I can build a graph with rx path and tx path and run 2 paths simultaneously. Yes, you'll need two antenna,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC FFT Block Question

2011-06-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/02/2011 03:01 AM, mehmet kabasakal wrote: Hi Marcus, May i ask you how you calculate the freq error i.e. 12.5 ppm ? Is there a formula? Mehmet. Just take the error in Hz, divide by the expected frequency, and multiply by 1.0e6 -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Designing a good receiver

2011-06-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/02/2011 07:10 AM, Mike Clark wrote: This comes from a discussion over on the USRP-users mailing list, but I felt it would be more appropriate to post here. Over on that list, someone was asking about problems they were having consistently receiving data on their USRP. My background is in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_fft.py and USRP N210

2011-06-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/02/2011 03:06 AM, rahul sol wrote: Hi, first of all thanks very much for the quick reply. Now, I used XCVR2450 with USRP N210 to receive signals transmitted from network analyzer. The peak of fft exactly followed change in frequency of network analyzer. Additionally, I used TVRX2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How do I properly disable/enable the WBX receiver with UHD?

2011-06-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/06/2011 12:17 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Using a USRP1 w/ WBX dboard and UHD, what is the proper way to disable (and then re-enable) the receiver? I usually don't think to disable the receiver. Running the transmitter on demand and always running the receiver is a fine model of use. Perhaps

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest UHD version: error after update while trying to compile GRC model

2011-06-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/06/2011 12:11 PM, Vlad Stoianovici wrote: Dear list, I get a strange error when trying to compile a GRC model: -- Opening a USRP2/N-Series device... Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/vl/GnuRadio/Surse/top_block.py, line 43, inmodule tb = top_block() File

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A few questions

2011-06-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/03/2011 04:02 PM, Brenden Smith wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to GNU Radio and the USRP2, but I have been playing around and have successfully made a FM receiver. I have a few questions: 1) When I am receiving AM radio frequencies and demodulating them with the AM demod block I get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've found it impossible to create a half-duplex transceiver with WBX and one antenna in grc. Would an open valve in the transmit chain stop the transmitter and enable the receiver, or would a closed valve in the receiver automatically stop the transmitter? I've experimented with several

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Yea, you cannot send samples when you dont want to transmit. There isnt really such a concept of that in GRC itself, but you certainly can implement the blocks and control logic and connect them in grc. Someone should make interesting use of those tagging features as well. :-) -Josh Can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to trigger dynamic reconfiguration with lock/disconnect

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Yea, you cannot send samples when you dont want to transmit. There isnt really such a concept of that in GRC itself, but you certainly can implement the blocks and control logic and connect them in grc. Someone should make interesting use of those tagging features as well. :-) -Josh \

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] measuring RSSI - N210 with RFX2400

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/04/2011 01:52 PM, Kresimir Dabcevic wrote: Hi list! Is it possible to measure RSSI on RFX2400 with N210 motherboard (UHD drivers)? From the archives, it seems that read_rssi() is defined only for XCVR2450, and read_aux_adc(side,0) described on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] measuring RSSI - N210 with RFX2400

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/04/2011 02:04 PM, Josh Blum wrote: There is an rssi sensor: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/dboards.html#rfx-series from the uhd api: usrp-get_rx_sensor(rssi) or in python w/ gr-uhd usrp.get_dboard_sensor(rssi) A disadvantage to the get_rx_sensor(rssi) approach is that only

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] measuring RSSI - N210 with RFX2400

2011-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/04/2011 03:58 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: A disadvantage to the get_rx_sensor(rssi) approach is that only some of the daughter-boards have that (analog) function, and also, the RSSI is generally sensed at the bandwidth of the RF input to the down-converter chip, rather than at your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] measuring RSSI - N210 with RFX2400

2011-06-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Thanks for the answers Marcus. How can I fetch my whole signal stream from RX in order to perform computations with it - copying just first N elements that come from usrp source with gr_head or is there another method? Regards, Kresimir Dabcevic All the calculations I mentioned

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSM not detecting station, USRP1, FA-SY1, WBX, DBS

2011-06-07 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hello list, I'm having a lot of trouble here while trying to make openBTS work with my USRP1 to play with GSMs. First of all, a little description of my setup: Software: openbts-2.6.0Mamou gnuradio v3.4.0git-130-g207a2ae7 UHD from git OS: ubuntu 11.04 # sudo lsusrp USRP 0 serial

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error executing usrp2_wfm_rcv.py

2011-06-07 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 07/06/2011 9:58 AM, Eduardo Lloret Fuentes wrote: Hello. Can this variable step_size have an arbitrary value? I tried several times and I always get this message: (python:3293): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_range_set_range: assertion `min max' failed and nothing at the USRP2 output

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error executing usrp2_wfm_rcv.py

2011-06-07 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 07/06/2011 9:58 AM, Eduardo Lloret Fuentes wrote: Hello. Can this variable step_size have an arbitrary value? I tried several times and I always get this message: (python:3293): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_range_set_range: assertion `min max' failed and nothing at the USRP2 output

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Increasing the number of DSP motherboards in one USRP in GRC

2011-06-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/08/2011 12:52 PM, Josh Blum wrote: here ya go http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/commit/?h=uhd/grc/more_channelsid=593e4b643956b2439fd2d3ac919ac5c8e95d I'm immediatelygoing to apply this patch, since it apparently increases my number of motherboards without my having to send

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about SMA-SMA coaxial cable

2011-06-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/08/2011 12:03 PM, Nick Foster wrote: No coaxial cable should act as an antenna except through shield leakage, which is VERY low, especially at low frequencies. To verify that this is the case, attach a 50 ohm SMA termination to the end of your coaxial cable and measure the amount of signal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problems with benchmark_ofdm and N210

2011-06-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/08/2011 09:51 PM, Morgan Redfield wrote: Ok. I found another problem in my code. The transmit_path has a multiplier in it that was set to 200 (it could go up to 32768). This was for the original USRP, but I think UHD needs a signal with magnitude=1. It seems like the signal was probably

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Simultaneous wireless transmission and reception between USRP2s

2011-06-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Dear GNU Radio list's members, I have a set of USRP2+XCVR2450 with the host computers configured with the *GNU Radio classic drivers* (v.3.3.0). My main idea is to transmit and receive data through a wireless connection between the USRP2s. For now, I'm unaware of the PHY technology but the only

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UPgrading GNU Radio from 3.2.2 to 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 10.04

2011-06-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:48 AM, hafiz zimran zimra...@yahoo.com mailto:zimra...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi would u please guide me to upgrade GNURadio software from 3.2.2 to 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 10.04 using Synaptic Package Manager. Best regards Zimran Rafique Version 3.3 is not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problems with benchmark_ofdm and N210

2011-06-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Morgan Redfieldredfie...@gmail.com wrote: I found that centering my FFT on a frequency that's offset from what I'm transmitting at will remove that central spike. I was able to finally see the gap in the center of the OFDM boxcar and adjust that. It looks like in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Freezing when running build-gnuradio

2011-06-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/10/2011 06:11 AM, Songsong Gee wrote: I have some difficulties on installing gnuradio and companion with uhd After struggling with uhd, people advised me to use pre-made build-gnuradio script (http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What happens to incoming data if a block is too slow?

2011-06-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi, What happens to the incoming data from USRP, over the USB bus, when a gnuradio block takes a lot of time to process its output? Is the data buffered indefinitely or is it dropped as new samples come in case the consumption rate is slow. Thanks That's what's called an overrun. Data gets

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What happens to incoming data if a block is too slow?

2011-06-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Is the data coming in the buffer FIFO? Is there a way to keep track of how much data is lost? Yes, the data are delivered FIFO. In UHD, you can arrange for there to be timestamps on the data, so you could look at the data and detect interruptions in the monotonicity. As long as overruns

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 FPGA modification problem.

2011-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 14/06/2011 2:52 PM, Tiago Rogério Mück wrote: Hi, Have anyone taken a look at this ? We are still struggling to find a solution to this problem. Any tip would help a lot. Thanks, Tiago Em 27 de maio de 2011 16:51, Tiago Rogério Mück ti...@lisha.ufsc.br mailto:ti...@lisha.ufsc.br

[Discuss-gnuradio] volk/config.guess, etc

2011-06-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Looks like volk/config.guess and volk/config.sub got added to the GIT repo, and since these are artifact files--that is, files that are generated *locally* during configuration, GIT now gripes about them when you do a git pull. They shouldn't appear in the repo at all, as far as I can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] volk/config.guess, etc

2011-06-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/18/2011 11:33 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: The volk build did not have these in the repository until a few weeks ago. Johnathan Well, their presence is causing git pull to balk. -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] volk/config.guess, etc

2011-06-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/19/2011 02:34 AM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 20:52, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Well, their presence is causing git pull to balk. Just delete your local copies (or symlinks) of config.sub and config.guess (in volk

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM on USRP2

2011-06-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 20/06/2011 10:05 AM, vanITA1082 wrote: I am going more deeply into the OFDM example, however I cannot figure out which is the bit rate of the usrp. I mean, I know and I can set the bit rate of my application but how fast the packets are sent out by the usrp? How can I evaluate the throughput

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiplexing modulators

2011-06-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 21/06/2011 9:28 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: In GRC I would like to combine the outputs of several NBFM modulator blocks to drive a USRP sink. The idea is to output several discrete channels within the USRP transmit bandwidth, e.g., three signal channels at -30 kHz, 0 kHz, and +30 kHz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiplexing modulators

2011-06-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 21/06/2011 12:05 PM, Alexandru Csete wrote Sorry, I meant multiply with a complex sine or cosine wave of frequency f, where f is the offset. Marcus suggested using filters, which will also work but it's a bit overkill for a simple translation, isn't it? Alex Yes, it's overkill, but I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiplexing modulators

2011-06-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/21/2011 04:40 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Thanks, Nick. I missed the sample rate factor because I was thinking of USRP1. I'll fix that and the fallacy of adding rates, and try again. Thanks, John I have an example, in GRC, attached. It uses an audio source, which is common to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real Signal to I/Q Samples

2011-06-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/21/2011 05:33 PM, Tom Hendrick wrote: Hello all, I am helping a colleague with the USRP center frequency tuning functionality and it is my understanding the signal must contain I and Q values centered at 0Hz. A real valued signal is generated independently by another program and is fed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Real Signal to I/Q Samples

2011-06-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/21/2011 05:33 PM, Tom Hendrick wrote: Hello all, I am helping a colleague with the USRP center frequency tuning functionality and it is my understanding the signal must contain I and Q values centered at 0Hz. A real valued signal is generated independently by another program and is fed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] E100 - No devices found for -----

2011-06-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 23/06/2011 8:32 AM, Ralf Wierse wrote: Hi Jason, thanks but I am a little confused. I would say it is in the same process since I have sink and source in the same GRC setup. The failure shows up when the generated python script instantiates an UHD devices the second time as far as I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] appending preamble with different power

2011-06-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 23/06/2011 2:31 PM, Nick Foster wrote: Why would you set the amplitude of the preamble differently than the actual data? --n In the hopelessly-naive assumption that the preamble can be made to be perfect through brute-force transmit power. Like you observed earlier, correlation is the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] appending preamble with different power

2011-06-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 23/06/2011 3:03 PM, Colby Boyer wrote: Or operate your receiver at absolute zero so there is no thermal noise? :D Infinite SNR. Must have :-) ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re g : Building gr-uhd and usrp2-firmware

2011-06-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/23/2011 06:50 PM, sumitstop wrote: I am using ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS. Did the following thing Step-1 Installed all the dependencies for ubuntu Lucid 10.04 from the script given here http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/UbuntuInstall step-2 git clone

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizing

2011-06-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm working on a multi-channel radiometer, based on USRP2 with the dual-DDC feature. I'm trying to come up with channelizing structure that won't overwhelm my CPU--I'm using a 6-core Phenom II 1055T, with 4GB of 1333MHz memory. I need to be able to carve-off 4 channels, with widths between

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizing

2011-06-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/24/2011 01:14 AM, Colby Boyer wrote: Hi Marcus, Check out a pfb channelizer! gnuradio-core/src/python/gnuradio/blks2impl/pfb_channelizer.py is a nice python wrapper for the class and gr_pfb_channelizer_ccf is the C++ name. Also if you need to carve out a a shifted part of the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Receive GPS L1 Signal

2011-06-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/24/2011 03:03 AM, Eddie Sun wrote: Thanks for the reply, but i still have some questions. 2011/6/21 John Andrews gnu.f...@gmail.com mailto:gnu.f...@gmail.com A USRP is a baseband IF receiver. Tune it to the GPS L1 frequency with the right decimation rate so that you have your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Microtune 4702 (4937) Gain question

2011-06-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 24/06/2011 11:45 AM, Patrik Tast wrote: Hi All, I can not see in source code where GR is setting the TVRXx gain. I'm referring to gnuradio-core/src/lib/io/microtune.cc If so (not set), what does it default to, max? See page 12 and forward. The tuner document can be found at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX Microtune 4702 (4937) Gain question

2011-06-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 24/06/2011 1:06 PM, Patrik Tast wrote: It came from a VERY old traditional GR build. I thought *no changes there in source code init stage was altered* after moving on to uhd, I was wrong. Time for me to upgrade from trad to uhd. Latest git trad compile does serve my needs still 100%

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/26/2011 02:31 AM, sumitstop wrote: Today when I tried to install Gnuradio by Marcus Script I got following message. Fetching Gnu Radio via GIT...GIT checkout of Gnu Radio failed! Yesterday it was working fine and I installed it on my two Pc's. Sometimes the GIT server that hosts the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 27/06/2011 11:08 AM, sumitstop wrote: Hi Marcus its more than 48 hours now and still the same message :( Continuing with script Installing pre-prequisites...Checking for package libfontconfig1-dev Checking for package libxrender-dev Checking for package libpulse-dev Checking for package swig

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 27/06/2011 3:29 PM, Christopher Dean wrote: Hi Sumit, There are two links that we can use to access the current version of the GNU Radio source: git://gnuradio.org/gnuradio and http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git . As of now, the second link does not work for me, but the first one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 28/06/2011 12:20 PM, sumitstop wrote: Hi Marcus Even after several trials the script exits giving following error . Fetching Gnu Radio via GIT...Done Fetching UHD via GIT...Done Building UHD...Done building/installing UHD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 28/06/2011 12:20 PM, sumitstop wrote: Hi Marcus Even after several trials the script exits giving following error . Fetching Gnu Radio via GIT...Done Fetching UHD via GIT...Done Building UHD...Done building/installing UHD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing GnuRadio by script.

2011-06-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/28/2011 04:44 PM, sumitstop wrote: Hmmm now it is at least echoing the reason for exiting :) Could not find appropriate file to download Perhaps the \downloads\ directory structure at ettus.com has changed or is currently invalid Again the same step by step build :( I hope it will be

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