Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 printing of character S bothersome!!

2010-11-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/11/2010 05:59 PM, Bishal Thapa wrote: Thank you Eric, Josh and Marcus, I had edited it to print nothing. Now, I am shunting it to /dev/null. My main reason to ask this question was exactly was Marcus pointed out. I am seeing lots and lots of S. When I switch channels to 7 or 3, I do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WBX board

2010-11-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
With USRP2? With classic USRP2 firmware you'll need the firmware image that supports the WBX. I'd you're using UHD it should just work -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Problem...usrp2 no control response

2010-11-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/12/2010 07:14 PM, Josh Blum wrote: The no control response might mean the pause frames are messing up the control packets. Does this happen in a receive only application? One way to alleviate this would be to run the flow control branch and images. See the flow control branch on the UHD

[Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I did a git pull for both UHD GnuRadio yesterday. I'm on the next branch for gnuradio, and on master for UHD. Since doing a rebuild yesterday, bandwidths below 400KHz no longer work on the USRP2. I did a test with a dead-simple flowgraph: UHD single source--multi-const x 32767--FFT For

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new modulation schemes do not work on my usrps while the old ones work

2010-11-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/14/2010 08:38 PM, John Andrews wrote: hi, I have the latest gnuradio installed on my Ubuntu 10.04 computers and two USRPs with RFX-2400 cards. I tested the benchmark_tx.py/benchmark_rx.py http://benchmark_tx.py/benchmark_rx.py and benchmark_tx2.py/benchmark_rx2.py

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP1 basic RX/TX frequency range

2010-11-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/14/2010 10:18 PM, Songsong Gee wrote: I am wondering that what frequency range does USRP1 basic RX/TX board support ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio Up to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using UHD failed to find USRP2

2010-11-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/15/2010 12:02 PM, Josh Blum wrote: The gr-uhd blocks are only available in the gnuradio next branch: see http://ettus-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki#Gnuradio-UHD -josh Also, most of the examples haven't yet been converted to UHD, including benchmark_*.py -- AFAIR.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] get fatal IO error 11 when running usrp2_fft.py (USRP2 + XCVR2450)

2010-11-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/15/2010 09:08 PM, XIAN PAN wrote: Hi, I installed the latest firmware : Raw Ethernet with XCVR2450, V3.3.1git. FPGA images is u2_rev3-20100603.bin. The OS is Fedora 13. And the version of gnu-radio is gnuradio-3.3.0. When I run the command: #usrp2_fft.py -f 2.476G -g 45. The program

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnu Radio on F14

2010-11-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Got my F14 system together today, and build Gnu Radio, with UHD from the latest GIT source. It went without incident. My new F14 machine is an x86_64 machine, an AMD Phenom X3, with 4GB of memory. F14 is running python2.7, so I had to update my .bashrc to reflect this. -- Principal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD IP Address Setting Issue

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 11:57 AM, Gregory, Adam wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get a MIMO setup working using USRP2s with the UHD drivers. I have a PC with 2 gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and a USRP2 connected to each. My problem is that I can't change the USRP2 IP address so that the two devices have

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: get fatal IO error 11 when running usrp2_fft.py (USRP2 + XCVR2450)

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 12:27 PM, XIAN PAN wrote: Hi Marcus D. Leech, Thanks for your response. I try the -d 40 on the command usrp2_fft.py. The problem is still here. If you *dont* use Peak Hold, does it work? There was a problem, deep in the bowels of OpenGL related to the Peak Hold function

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnu Radio on F14

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 02:48 PM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Marcus: I'm curious about that last statement you made, F14 is running python2.7, so I had to update my .bashrc to reflect this. I might be running Fedora 14 with GNU Radio 3.3.0 soon too, so I'm curious what you had to change in your .bashrc

[Discuss-gnuradio] Build broken today

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I did a git pull for both UHD (master) and gnuradio (next) today, and a make clean; make in both places. The build is currently broken: eech/gnuradio/gruel/src/include -I/home/mleech/gnuradio/gruel/src/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -I../../gr-uhd/lib \ -MD -MF

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research Announcements -- Nov 2010

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 08:20 PM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Secondly, what is performance penalty of UHD interface versus the raw Ethernet interface? UHD is based on UDP, so certainly there must be some reduction in the maximum data rate (and thus the bandwidth) compared the raw Ethernet interface. UDP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] waterfall question

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 07:16 PM, Michael Civ wrote: Hello All, I began coding my own waterfall for a program using the Python specgram function, but noticed that gnuradio has some python files with waterfall in the title. I cannot figure out what exactly I need to do to include a gnuradio waterfall

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/14/2010 02:28 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I did a git pull for both UHD GnuRadio yesterday. I'm on the next branch for gnuradio, and on master for UHD. Since doing a rebuild yesterday, bandwidths below 400KHz no longer work on the USRP2. I did a test with a dead-simple flowgraph: UHD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/16/2010 11:34 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: No answer or insight, just another data point. I've been running UHD apps today at 200 KHz sample rates with not problem. Tom Hmm, that *is* interesting. What

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 02:00 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: WBX with latest firmware downloaded from Ettus Monday. Hmmm, I'm using Basic_Rx. That should make *zero* difference. I discovered that there's a magic break at any sample rate that requires a decimation 256. So *somewhere* is having a hard time

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 02:00 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: WBX with latest firmware downloaded from Ettus Monday. That's the 20100901 firmware or something more recent? And you're running latest GnuRadio and UHD? Working from next and pulled from uhd/master yesterday. Tom -- Principal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 02:20 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: Decimation is filtering. When you decimate by 512 you are reducing noise by a factor of 512 (27dB). Since you are using a BasicRX, there will be very little noise, and 27dB less after decimation. In fact, there is so little noise that the output

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] least processor intensive modulation scheme

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 09:52 AM, William Cox wrote: Do the processor usage for the various mod/demod schemes change that much? Which scheme is the least processor intensive? Thanks! -William Wildly and vastly! Consider AM, for example (or OOK in the data world) it's just a multiply operation on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] any recommended PCIe Ethernet NICs?

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 11:37 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: Intel cards are the gold standard. Marvell and Broadcom are good as well. I never trust anything from Realtek. I've heard that before don't trust RealTek, but my experience with *Rx-only* is that it supports full bandwidth just fine. I have a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 02:20 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: Decimation is filtering. When you decimate by 512 you are reducing noise by a factor of 512 (27dB). Since you are using a BasicRX, there will be very little noise, and 27dB less after decimation. In fact, there is so little noise that the output

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] least processor intensive modulation scheme

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 12:26 PM, William Cox wrote: I guess it'd be nice if there was a way to compare spectral efficiency vs. processing power. In terms of complex modulation schemes, which would be least intensive? QAM, QPSK, GMSK? Consult a modern signal processing book. I ask because I'm trying

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 12:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: What I'm seeing is that the magnitudes (as seen in the number sink) coming off the source, even with roughly 75dB of gain ahead are roughly 0.002 to 0.003 when I'm using 400KHz sampling, and roughly 0.0006 to 0.0007 when the bandwidth

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandwidths 400Khz no longer work with USRP2

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 03:05 PM, Steven Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 11/17/2010 12:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: What I'm seeing is that the magnitudes (as seen in the number sink) coming off

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: get fatal IO error 11 when running usrp2_fft.py (USRP2 + XCVR2450)

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/18/2010 02:35 AM, XIAN PAN wrote: Hi Marcus D. Leech, Thank you for your response. I never use the peak hold button on this machine because I cannot click any buttons on the screen begin the program running, it is also dead as the same time. As I said before, I cannot do nothing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Received signal is DANCING

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Songsong Gee gee.songs...@gmail.com mailto:gee.songs...@gmail.com wrote: What does the resulting plot look like if you remove the bandpass filter? Those discontinuities when the orig signal abruptly turns on/off is essentially high-frequency info, which when

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions about using UHD with USRP2

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/18/2010 11:37 PM, peng senl wrote: First, I am not quite sure if it is a good idea to use UHD with USRP2 right now. I have the UHD driver installed and the USRP2 board detected. What I need to do first is to write a basic program to collect some data from the USRP2 board by C++.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with simple test of USRP2+WBX

2010-11-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/19/2010 03:13 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Hello: I'm stuck, and I need some help. I'm running GNU Radio 3.3.0 on openSUSE 11.2. I have two USRP2 boards, each with a WBX daughterboard, connected to two Intel PRO/1000 GT NICs, on eth1 and eth2. I'm using the txrx_wbx_raw_eth_20100608.bin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is EEPROM burning for WBX_NG supported in gnuradio-3.3.0 ?.

2010-11-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/28/2010 01:27 AM, Sanjay Singh wrote: Hi Eric, Is daughterboard ID burning inot EEPROM for WBX_NG supported in gnuradio-3.3.0 ?. Am unable to burn daughter board EEPROM for wbx_ng. When i run ./burn-db-eeprom -A -f -t 'wbx_ng', i get error as 'name error'. Am using USRP1 mother

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bandpower measurment USRP2

2010-11-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/28/2010 08:38 AM, Vladutzzz wrote: Dear all, I would like to receive as many suggestions as possible on how to accurately measure bandpower with a USRP2 + WBX setup. I know I should use a block that does the square magnitude (FFT squared) and sum the resulting coefficients but after

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bandpower measurment USRP2

2010-11-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/28/2010 06:53 PM, Vladutzzz wrote: Marcus, First of all thank you for your reply! I have some questions about your very much appreciated explanations: After using the complex-to-mag-squared block, should I consider the coefficients as being in W or mW (should I use 10*log10 or 30 +

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/29/2010 03:24 AM, Martin Braun wrote: FWIW, a lot of people think GNU Radio is hard. Personally, I find the hardest bit is understanding signal processing. And no tool in the world can make that simple. If you really know how the DSP works, getting GNU Radio to do thy biddings is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help -- how to implement transmitting periodic on/off tones

2010-11-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/29/2010 01:35 PM, Steven Clark wrote: One would think something like this would work, but I've noticed that even if you're sending 0's to your usrp sink, the transmitter still puts out some amount of power (plenty strong enough to be detectable via a spec-an). This power goes away if

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 + WBX How to use a 32 MHz signal band?

2010-11-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
What would be the best way to work with a 32 MHz band resulting from USRP2? I guess, since the minimum decimation rate is 4 (resulting in a 25 MHz signal band), some kind of interpolation will be required or maybe resampling?! Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks in advance! Vlad. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 + WBX How to use a 32 MHz signal band?

2010-11-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/30/2010 07:04 PM, Vladutzzz wrote: I am interested in this 2 USRPs approach since I don't have the experience and the knowledge to start messing about inside the FPGA firmware code and have an extra USRP2. How would this go? I tried looking up some info about this topic. I've read some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About the directionality of the LP0410 antenna.

2010-12-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/30/2010 10:06 PM, Miok Wah wrote: Hi all, We hope to do some experiments with the LP0410 antenna. Before that, we hope to know more about its characteristics: 1. Is it a directional antenna? 2. If so, is there statistics about its directionality (e.g., beamwidth)? We did not find

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tesla C2000 series and CUDA and Gnu Radio

2010-12-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Is anyone out there taking another look at CUDA + Gnu Radio? Some of the couple-of-years-old charts I've looked at suggest that speedups for some of the most important transforms we use vary between modest and disappointing. Cross-over points for things like FFTs are usually up in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 + WBX How to use a 32 MHz signal band?

2010-12-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/01/2010 05:49 AM, Vladutzzz wrote: Thank you Marcus, for the very prompt and exhaustive reply! Mostly it's what I expected, but I am a wee bit worried about the IP addressing process: I need to change the IP of one of the USRP2 modules, how do I do that, considering I use an UDP FPGA

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Invalid EEPROM error message with the WBX board

2010-12-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a USRP board with a WBX daughter board and when I run ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py or any grc application like ./usrp_nbfm_ptt.py these warning messages appear: Testing 2MB/sec... Warning: Treating daughterboard with invalid EEPROM contents as if it were a Basic Tx. Warning: This is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] EEPROM Burning for WBX_NG

2010-12-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Now, I have done complete new installation of Fedora-13, and installed all the dependencies as mentioned in build guide. After that i have run git and cloned gnuradio to get latest source. after that i have run # ./bootstrap # ./configure # make # make check # sudo make install I have

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] EEPROM Burning for WBX_NG

2010-12-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi Marcus, uname -m is returning i686. Regards Sanjay Please, what is the contents of /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/usrpm/usrpd_dbid.py -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dial_tone.py add_ff()

2010-12-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Another GNU Radio noob here. I've been playing around with some of the examples while I eagerly await my USRP1 and I had a question about the dial_tone.py example. I ran the dial_tone.py example that's part of the 3.3.0 release and noticed it doesn't really sound like a (US) dial tone. I'm

[Discuss-gnuradio] expl me this

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Why should: http://www.sbrac.org/files/testme.py http://www.sbrac.org/files/testme.grc Be causing Gnu Radio to attemp to allocate 16GB of virtual memory? Under what drug-induced fantasy should a straight-line FFT (admittedly a chunky FFT) buffer be ballooned out by a factor of 1000, when

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] expl me this

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/05/2010 06:25 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Why should: http://www.sbrac.org/files/testme.py http://www.sbrac.org/files/testme.grc Be causing Gnu Radio to attemp to allocate 16GB of virtual memory? Under what drug-induced fantasy should a straight-line FFT (admittedly a chunky FFT

[Discuss-gnuradio] Trying out multi-threaded FFTW

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Anyone know how I can get extra linker options passed in for FFTW3F during configure? The Gnu Radio build system is, well, fiendishly complicated, and doing the obvious: FFTW3F_LIBS='-lfftw3f_threads -lfftw3f -lm ' ./configure Provokes an error: === configuring in usrp2/firmware

[Discuss-gnuradio] Multi-threaded FFTW

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I did some tests tonight using the multi-thread support in FFTW3. The changes to gri_fft.cc were relatively minor, but plugging this into the existing build environment will require a little surgery, since you need to add -lfftw3f_threads to the ld flags, and the ld flags for FFTW3F are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with valve and audio sink

2010-12-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
try running the same fix with the static variable, this problem will show up even with simple setups because it's in the alsa audio source block. even though the fix works i wouldn't recommend it for long term solution because it's a hack. you can look into the FIXME section of the code to

[Discuss-gnuradio] Performance at 25Msps

2010-12-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have succeeded in making my IRA application run at 25Msps, on my poor mans server, which is an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T running at 3.2GHz, with 8GB of 1333MHz memory, and running Fedora 14. When running at 25Msps bandwidth, the application consumes about 4.5CPUs, which leaves enough

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Invalid EEPROM error message with the WBX board

2010-12-07 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Thanks for your reply Marcus I installed the gnuradio 3.3.1 version and the message Warning: Treating daughterboard with invalid EEPROM contents as if it were a Basic Rx. is gone now but when I try to run gnuradio-companion I receive the following message Cannot import gnuradio. Are your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP2 outdoors in winter in Boston (lowest operating temperature)

2010-12-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/13/2010 01:16 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Hello: We will be doing some outdoor data collection with our USRP2 board. We're located in Boston, so these days in December the typical daily maximum temperature is between +20 and +35 degrees Fahrenheit. We would need about 4-6 hours outside

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD: cannot find usrp2.

2010-12-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/17/2010 06:00 PM, Josh Blum wrote: firewall perhaps? try this: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/usrp2.html#debugging-networking-problems I've found that on recent Fedoren, uhd_find_devices doesn't work, but if I explicitly: uhd_usrp_probe --args addr=192.168.10.2 It works

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get started using UHD

2010-12-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/18/2010 12:07 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Hello: I have a USRP2 with a WBX, and I'm using a raw Ethernet interface. I'm running GNU Radio 3.3.0 with openSUSE 11.2 and Python 2.6.2 How can I get started using UHD? I need to get a branch of GNU Radio that supports it, but I don't know

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB modulation with USRP2 Sink

2010-12-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/18/2010 04:07 PM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Hello: How can I get SSB modulation with the USRP2? Currently I have a Signal Source producing a sine wave, and I've connected it into a USRP2 Sink. The spectrum of the output shows the upper sideband, the lower sideband, and the carrier. For

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB modulation with USRP2 Sink

2010-12-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/20/2010 03:26 PM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: Hello Marcus: Thanks a lot for providing the GRC file. I did not realize it was so complicated to create a SSB-modulated signal. I thought it might be a parameter of the USRP2 Sink block. So the USRP2 Sink will always generate a full-modulated

[Discuss-gnuradio] WWVB demodulator

2010-12-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Has anyone on the list worked on a WWVB demodulator? They basically use a type of ON/OFF keying, with the resulting pulse width used to encode 1s and 0s. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WWVB demodulator

2010-12-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/26/2010 09:54 PM, Michael Ossmann wrote: I started to years ago but never got very far. It looked like starting with goertzel was going to work. I think I planned to dump goertzel output into MM clock recovery with a 10 Hz symbol rate and then count the number of .1 second chunks per

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] can I set bandwidth for rfx1800 board

2010-12-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/27/2010 09:55 PM, James Jordan wrote: Hi all, I check gnuradio code found set_bw( ) is not implemented in db_flexrf_900_rx_mimo_b. So can I set bandwidth for rfx1800 board? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

[Discuss-gnuradio] Goertzel vs FIR bandpass

2010-12-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I tried an experiment this evening with my 6-channel VLF receiver, which uses a sound-card (sampled at 96KHz or 192KHz) to sample a VLF loop antenna and amplifier, and then do power detection (and other things) over six discrete channels, arbitrarily spaced. The version that I've been using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] can I set bandwidth for rfx1800 board

2010-12-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/27/2010 10:31 PM, James Jordan wrote: Thanks. So RFX board always capture a 20MHz bandwidth signal? But applications use RFX board such as openbts need only 200Khz bandwidth signal, why it can directly use the signal from RFX board? Actually, the total bandwidth is 40MHz, due to

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with 192KHz sampling rate on alsa source

2010-12-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm running Fedora 14, with the latest Gnu Radio code. I have an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card, which can sample up to 192KHz. I have a flow-graph that sets the card up for 192KHz sampling, and I've confirmed that the hardware apparently thinks it's sampling at 192KHz, but when I display

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Openbts-discuss] how openbts set channel bandwidth?

2010-12-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/28/2010 08:05 PM, James Jordan wrote: Hi Alexander, where the filter perform? In gnuradio? Since there is a filter, openbts must set it, how openbts set the filter? Regards. The OpenBTS software likely sets the incoming decimation rate to match as closely as possible the desired receive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [Openbts-discuss] how openbts set channel bandwidth?

2010-12-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/29/2010 01:40 AM, James Jordan wrote: Marcus, Thanks. I am dsp idiot, I thought decimation is only set the sample rate before. Didn't know it also set up a filter. Correct decimation *requires* filtering, so that aliases don't end up in the output sample stream. So-called naive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/30/2010 12:39 PM, George S. Williams wrote: On 12/30/2010 12:16 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Unfortunately the compile failed - I ran into compile errors with things in the usrp2 and gr-usrp2 directories, so I removed them from the Makefile and the compile eventually went through... But make

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/30/2010 01:51 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Thank you both for your suggestions, I'll go ahead and carefully follow the instructions on the gnuradio wiki page FedoraInstall under gnuradio from tarball. BH Do it from the GIT source. It's almost always stable enough to use. -- Marcus Leech

[Discuss-gnuradio] Followup: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 as audio source at 192KHz: Fedora 14/Alsa/ICE1724 driver

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'd noticed a problem with running the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card at 192KHz as a source in Gnu Radio -- the spectrum was all funny, with the spectrum getting reflected about 48KHz, almost as if the actual sample rate on the card wasn't correct, and perhaps set to 96KHz instead of the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/30/2010 04:09 PM, Brad Hein wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 12/30/2010 01:51 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Thank you both for your suggestions, I'll go ahead and carefully follow

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Followup: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 as audio source at 192KHz: Fedora 14/Alsa/ICE1724 driver

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/30/2010 03:31 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I'd noticed a problem with running the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card at 192KHz as a source in Gnu Radio -- the spectrum was all funny, with the spectrum getting reflected about 48KHz, almost as if the actual sample rate on the card wasn't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Followup: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 as audio source at 192KHz: Fedora 14/Alsa/ICE1724 driver

2010-12-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/30/2010 07:52 PM, Rafael Diniz wrote: Have you tried the OSS driver, using the 4front drivers? Best regards, Rafael Diniz I dug deeper, and the card apparently only supports 96KHz on the input side. I haven't used the card in a few years, so my recollection of its input-side rate must

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio

2010-12-31 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/31/2010 02:24 PM, Brad Hein wrote: I'm looking for a way to tap into the unmodulated signal in my ICOM 706 MKIIG (I don't have a SDR BUT I do have a sound card, and lots of ham equipment :) ). Referring to the product service manual[1], I have found the product detector signal before

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio

2011-01-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/01/2011 11:41 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Also, a little more reading revealed that my rig has a third IF that operates at 455Khz and is utilized in FM and WFM modes, which may be just what I need, and what you were describing, Max. BH You might find that the 455KHz filter is quite

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: Need Advice for SDR choice

2011-01-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hello I need some advice. I would like to purchase a Software Defined Radio I would like to be able to do 1. Around 50 MHz to 2.400 GHz 2. USB LSB CW FM WFM / RAW ? 3. I would like to be able to decode AX25 packet (ISS) I also have another project of decoding Mode S aircraft

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: Need Advice for SDR choice

2011-01-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Andrew Rich wrote: I have a MacBook PRO I7 it can run OS X or windows I have been successfully using the Ettus Research USRP with LFRX, LFTX and WBX boards on my 17 MacBook Pro under OS X (Snow Leopard). Installing the software portion is pretty easy:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to perform spectrum sensing using energy detection method using gnu radio and usrp

2011-01-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/04/2011 04:27 PM, abhijeet mate wrote: Hi, can anyone help me with how to perform spectrum sensing using energy detection method using gnu radio and usrp. Thanks and Regards, Abhijeet. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/09/2011 04:19 PM, Moeller wrote: There are still radio amateurs, hobbyists and other people who like to share knowledge about creating hardware. See the SSRP (http://oscar.dcarr.org/ssrp/) project. You don't have to be a millionaire to finance your electronics hobby. Wasn't it just $30

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/09/2011 06:44 PM, J.D. Bakker wrote: The SSRP doesn't look too bad. Another option is the OpenHPSDR (http://openhpsdr.org/); I believe people are working on GNUradio drivers. Actually, I'd forgotten about OpenHPSDR. Would make a passable option indeed. When I designed the LART (a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Building gr-uhd: .Tpo file not found/Permission denied

2011-01-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/09/2011 06:39 PM, Patrick Strasser wrote: You are right, thanks. For some strange reason gr-uhd/lib/.deps was owned by root:root. I think I ran sudo make install when the tree was not built. This triggered a regular build, wich started with 'make dep', wich generated root wowned

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 10:45 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: Hi everyone, Does one have to make any changes to the hardware when working with a DBSRX2 and a USRP2, as was the case with the original DBSRX? Are there any python examples that demonstrate how to work with the DBSRX2 on the USRP2? Nick

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 11:43 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late December 2010. However from your response, I am guessing I should first download (checkout), compile and install UHD, then finally compile and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Alternative Hardware

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 08:23 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote: * Have a look at Digilent [1] Basys and Nexsys boards. You get the same interface chip as the USRP, which should give a good start for firmware development, and a FPGA, switches, buttons, displays, connectors (VGA/PS2 etc.) for about the same or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2011 03:11 PM, sirjanselot wrote: How do I know that my flow-graph is executing in thread per block mode? As far as I can tell my only 1 core out of the 8 is being used when I run my flow-graphs. This is what I see when I run the performance monitor (or whatever it is called) in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Make a simple little FFT sink in GRC and use it on one of the USRPs to determine the received signal offset from the other USRP while it is transmitting. Or receive a signal from a signal generator of known frequency and note the offset for both USRPs. Or transmit a signal from each USRP and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/11/2011 07:16 AM, James Hall wrote: back? Why is it that the USRP was $450, then discontinued to bring out the USRP2 for $700 now it's being discontinued for a new design that will be marketed at $1700? I predict that the next revision after that will cost even more. Even if it's to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What Modulation Scheme does RFX400 can perform?

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/11/2011 11:57 AM, Songsong Gee wrote: Same as Title, What Modulation Scheme does RFX400 can perfom? Any modulation scheme you can think of that can be represented efficiently as a series of mathematical operations producing a baseband waveform that is then up-converted by the RFX2400

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About clock rate of USRP E100

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
As far as I know, the decimation is after the ADC, so ADC rate doesn't change after changing the clock rate. I'm happy to be corrected if it's not so. :) That's correct. The ADC rates are fixed across all the products. That vastly simplifies things both in the FPGA DDC+CIC decimators,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Open-Hardware

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Another thought I had earlier today is that with UAC2 (USB Audio Class version 2), there's no limit on the sample rate that a UAC2 device can advertise, so it might be nice to make a USB-SDR device appear to be a UAC2 compliant device. [Well, OK that's not strictly true, you can advertise

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Open-Hardware

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
schrieb Marcus D. Leech on 2011-01-12 01:44: You just ad a second interface that is HID, which is available on every platform and easy to handle. That's how all the soundcard-like DDS do it. Ah, yes of course. The only problem is that Microsoft promised in 2005 to implement UAC2, but forgot

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/12/2011 02:32 AM, Moeller wrote: Maybe an FPGA Experimentation kit could be extended with an RF/Sampling part: $400 price class, includes PowerPC, 64 DSP slices, Gigabit Ethernet, 64 MB RAM, just RF part and A/D converters are missing:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/12/2011 03:20 AM, Moeller wrote: I have no experience with such FPGA evaluation kits. Is there an easy way to attach a RF daughter board and ADC/DAC? What bus would be suitable, Rocket-IO or some parallel digital ports? I didn't find analog ports on the board. The standard for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/12/2011 08:17 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote: Now that is not exactly the cheap one, but with its 150MSPS it would be quite a frequency range with low additional effort. What would be the goal for such a device? Which bandwidth are of interest, which dynamic ranges? Which frequency ranges?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] The (in)famous channel 0 not receiving error

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi everyone, I recently compiled and installed gnuradio. I then tried to find the usrp2: #find_usrps 00:50:c2:85::3b:5c hw_rev = 0x0400 Next I tried to plot an FFT of the GPS L1 signal (note that my daughterboard is a dbsrx2) #usrp2_fft.py -f 1.57542G usrp2: channel 0 not receiving

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
schrieb Marcus D. Leech am 2011-01-12 02:40: There is a lot of people outside the Linux world, especially in the non-academic hobbyist corner. These people seem to me to try to work with least possible changes, that is install no new OS, install no additional tricky exotic drivers, and at most

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unofficial Gnuradio Installation Procedure for Newbies on Fedora 14

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
A little something to help along the newcomers like me :-) In Fedora 14, I installed all packages except fftw using the package manager. I had to install fftw from source because gnuradio requires a custom-built single precision floating point version of fftw I haven't had to install FFTW

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and CUDA reprised

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Moeller wrote: The very large FIR filters was a thought, as an example of an operation that might benefit from a GPU at least when using OpenCL (or CUDA). I haven't done testing yet to know if a GPU can do better than a CPU using vector instructions ... but I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Finally compiled USRP2 code works fine with UDPimage ...but not with compiled Raw Ethernet Image

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Matt, Ok, I will compile the raw ethernet project for the USRP2 to be sure that I can modify it and use the modified version to my master. I was try to compile the project fpga.git under ISE10.1 and under ISE12.1. The two method compile well, give two different size of binary file, but

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Low cost hardware option

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi, i'm watching all discussion about poor students and the evil Mr Ettus who don't play like Santa Claus and whant to make some profit :). I'm also watching all topics and discussion regarding a low cost solution for use with GNURADIO. I guess we can have a cheap option to us and I'm I don't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12.01.2011 20:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: If connected to a Xilinx board, FIR and decimation could still be done in the FPGA. Agreed. There's a cheap one here, with USB2 and Spartan3, only 70€ ($100) http://www.ztex.de/usb-fpga-1/usb-fpga-1.2.d.html Or this one for 145€? http

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Open-Hardware

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
By the way, USB3 is now hitting the mainstream, with PCI boards, motherboards, disk drives and USB sticks from all the major vendors. It provides a significant bandwidth boost over USB2 (it's designed for 3Gbits/sec, both ways simultaneously). This would be very useful to any newly designed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Hooking the USRP up to a battery

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Has anyone done this? Looking to see what configurations ppl have tried. Im using the 1800 dboard. Thanks, Isaac It should run fine on a 6 to 7.5V battery. It draws a couple of amps with a transceiver daughtercard in place. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio

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