Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-dvbt - SSE instruction set not enabled?!

2014-01-16 Thread Ron Economos
Did you try -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mavx during the cmake? Ron On 1/16/2014 4:04 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Hi, not really a gnuradio issue, but maybe one of you has an idea? When trying to build gr-dvbt, I get his: ras@ubuntu:~/gr-dvbt/build$ make [ 1%] Building C object

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-dvbt - SSE instruction set not enabled?!

2014-01-17 Thread Ron Economos
I had mentioned it in the Nuand forum DVB-T thread. gr-dvbt is being updated daily right now. The 8k carrier mode and a fix for QPSK were added today. On 1/16/2014 10:17 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Hi, Did you try -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mavx during the cmake? Ron How could I? I do not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Video Streaming Issue (most probably at receiving end)

2014-02-03 Thread Ron Economos
The signal level on the transmitter FFT seems very high. Make sure that the IQ samples sent to the USRP are not being clipped. Ron On 2/3/2014 7:54 AM, Syed Aqeel Raza wrote: Hi, Again, I did some more work and the details are as under. 1. I have created a single flowgraph without USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] testing FLEX modems with gnuradio

2014-02-13 Thread Ron Economos
Clayton's sdr-examples are for GnuRadio 3.7.1. Your issue is that you haven't built gr-iqbal. It's not really needed, so you can just delete that block in the graphs. Ron On 2/13/2014 3:31 PM, Al Smith wrote: I am new to gnuradio and have spent the last few days reading every tutorial I can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] testing FLEX modems with gnuradio

2014-02-13 Thread Ron Economos
I've tried pager_rx.py on bladeRF, and it works fine here (GnuRadio 3.7.2.1 and Ubuntu 13.04). Tons of traffic on channel 25 here in Silicon Valley. I've made some changes to the code to work better with bladeRF (mostly with the gain setting). http://www.w6rz.net/pager_rx.py When a flow grays

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QPSK over air

2014-02-25 Thread Ron Economos
Only half of the solution, but there's a fully functional 64-QAM transmitter for bladeRF here: https://github.com/argilo/gr-qam It implements the North American CATV standard ANSI/SCTE07 also known as ITU-T J.83 Annex B. We're just using cable ready TV's as receivers. Ron On 2/25/2014 10:11

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TX characterisation of USRPN210 with SBX daughterboard

2014-03-24 Thread Ron Economos
The graph doesn't match your numbers. Ron On 3/23/2014 8:56 PM, Gayathri Ramasubramanian wrote: Hi, I am trying to characterize the TX and RX characteristics of USRPN210 with a SBX board. I have tried one test : Amplitude Variation effects, by varying the amplitude in steps and finding out

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TX characterisation of USRPN210 with SBX daughterboard

2014-03-25 Thread Ron Economos
I took a look at the SBX schematic. The final output uses a Mini-Circuits PHA-1+ MMIC amplifier that's rated at +22 dBm output power at 1 dB compression. It would seem that the gain distribution of the SBX is arranged so that the PHA-1+ cannot be overdriven, even at DAC full-scale and 0 dB

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to capture video frame over the air

2014-03-26 Thread Ron Economos
Your capture frequency is way off. WUSA-TV transmits on RF channel 9, which is 186 to 192 MHz. You want to capture the center of the channel, so 189 MHz is the correct number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_television_frequencies The 5 MHz sample rate is too low. The signal is 6

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio runtime not found? (Ubuntu 14.04)

2014-04-10 Thread Ron Economos
gnuradio-runtime definitely exists in GR 3.7. Nathan was probably thinking about gnuradio-core, which has been deprecated. Usually this issue is solved by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory that contains gnuradio-runtime.pc Ron On 4/9/2014 10:57 PM, Jordan Johnson wrote: Interesting. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dvb-t project with two USRPN200 devices failure

2014-04-17 Thread Ron Economos
Yes, it's possible. The use of the rational re-sampler is to be compatible with commercial DVB-T receivers. If you're just interested in USRP to USRP, then it's okay to use a 10 Msps sample rate. The signal will be slightly wider than a standard 8 MHz signal at 9.142857 Msps. You can modify my

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in using trellis Error, correction en- and decoder

2014-04-28 Thread Ron Economos
I'm not exactly an expert on this, but correct values for the DVB-S trellis encoder (1/2 rate, G1(X) = 121, G2(Y) = 91) are: 1, 2, (121, 91) My DVB-S transmitter repository is here: http://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs Ron On 4/27/2014 11:12 PM, siva kumar wrote: Dear, Could you please let me

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Out of Tree Block Not Showing up in GRC

2014-05-06 Thread Ron Economos
Take a look at: https://github.com/BogdanDIA/gr-dvbt/blob/master/grc/dvbt_inner_coder.xml Ron On 5/6/2014 7:00 AM, Jonathan Fox wrote: I have two out of tree blocks I want to add to GRC, everything compiles and installs correctly except for the GRC component (not shown in GRC). So this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Out of Tree Block Not Showing up in GRC

2014-05-06 Thread Ron Economos
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: Take a look at: https://github.com/BogdanDIA/gr-dvbt/blob/master/grc/dvbt_inner_coder.xml Ron On 5/6/2014 7:00 AM, Jonathan Fox wrote: I have two out of tree blocks I want

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Simple grc GUI question...

2014-05-12 Thread Ron Economos
The WX GUI Check Box should work for you. It can toggle between two values. Let me know if you need an example. Ron On 5/11/2014 10:44 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Hi, I need to align the audio switching network of my ham radio repeater db0fue, and it would be nice to have some GRC GUI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM cyclic prefixer

2014-05-13 Thread Ron Economos
If you're sending packets, then Length Tag Key should be set to the packet length you're using. If you're sending a stream (like DVB-T), then this field is not used (and left blank). The OFDM cyclic prefixer is used after the (reverse) FFT block. The FFT Length in the OFDM Cyclic Prefixer block

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM cyclic prefixer

2014-05-14 Thread Ron Economos
), it seems that it is working now. Actually I am trying to modulate ISDB-T data stream. I am working with vectors, instead of data stream. Thanks again. 2014-05-14 5:28 GMT-03:00 Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.com mailto:martin.br...@ettus.com: On 14.05.2014 04:36, Ron Economos wrote

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency modulation in GRC

2014-05-23 Thread Ron Economos
I was experimenting with this the other day. I used the wide band FM modulator instead, since the deviation can be set. Here's the flow graph. http://www.w6rz.net/fmtest.grc The test audio files. sine01.wav is 0.1 Hz and sine15k.wav is 15000 Hz. http://www.w6rz.net/sine01.wav

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Installation issues with gnuradio on Ubuntu 12.04

2014-05-23 Thread Ron Economos
You can have custom install locations by telling the build-gnuradio script to not do the build. For example: ./build-gnuradio -m prereqs gitfetch This will perform the resolving of prerequisites, get the source code and use the HEAD of the master branch (which has the very latest commits to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Installation issues with gnuradio on Ubuntu 12.04

2014-05-24 Thread Ron Economos
On 5/23/2014 10:54 PM, Activecat wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: Chose an install directory that makes sense for you. /opt works well since it has the correct permissions. cd gnuradio mkdir build

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Installation issues with gnuradio on Ubuntu 12.04

2014-05-24 Thread Ron Economos
On 5/23/2014 11:37 PM, Activecat wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: Custom install locations do require some additional environment setup. Sylvain gave me a nice shell script for that. BASE=/opt/gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM_Cyclic_Prefixer

2014-06-01 Thread Ron Economos
If the rolloff parameter is zero, the block does not do any pulse shaping. The rolloff parameter is in symbols, and must be at least 2 and less than or equal to CP length. Ron On 6/1/2014 5:53 PM, xianda wrote: Hi all: Thank you in advance. I want to test my understanding about

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting overflows at 50 Msps (not sure why)

2014-06-04 Thread Ron Economos
On 6/4/2014 2:16 PM, Orin Lincoln wrote: Hello, I am trying to get samples from a B200 at 50 Msps into GNU Radio. The UHD benchmark_rate tool receives at 50 Msps without any overflows detected. My GNU Radio flowgraph is simply a USRP source connected to a null sink, and I'm still getting

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-dvbs2 DVB-S2 transmitter

2014-07-07 Thread Ron Economos
I've just completed a DVB-S2 transmitter for GnuRadio. https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs2 This is a port of G4GUO's DVB-S2 transmitter for the DATV-Express Digital Amateur Television project. https://github.com/G4GUO/datvexpress_gui/tree/master/DVB-S2 The code includes an implementation of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-dvbs2 DVB-S2 transmitter

2014-07-07 Thread Ron Economos
You need a host running GnuRadio 3.7.x (I did all my testing with 3.7.3). The sample rate will be 2X the symbol rate, so unless you're using very low symbol rates, you'll need to use USB3.0 with the bladeRF. How much processing power required will be a function of symbol rate. I did my testing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Analog video modulation.

2014-07-16 Thread Ron Economos
All video decoders use the YCbCr colorspace. You'll need to convert that to YIQ for NTSC. You can create a YCbCr file with vlc. vlc -I rc file to decode -V yuv --yuv-file=output file --yuv=chroma=UYVY This will create a YCbCr file with 4:2:2 chroma in the format Cb Y Cr Y Cb Y Cr Y ...

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Analog video modulation.

2014-07-16 Thread Ron Economos
Made a typo. --yuv=chroma=UYVY should be --yuv-chroma=UYVY Ron On 7/16/2014 10:07 PM, Ron Economos wrote: All video decoders use the YCbCr colorspace. You'll need to convert that to YIQ for NTSC. You can create a YCbCr file with vlc. vlc -I rc file to decode -V yuv --yuv-file=output file

[Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-S2X update to gr-dvbs2

2014-07-25 Thread Ron Economos
gr-dvbs2 has been updated to include all of the normal frame size code rates, roll-off factors and constellations in the DVB-S2 extension specification, DVB-S2X. Note that gr-dvbs2 is transmit only. https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs2

[Discuss-gnuradio] Memory allocation issue

2014-10-21 Thread Ron Economos
I'm writing a block that requires a large amount of data to be processed in one iteration of the work function. If I call set_output_multiple() with 8100 * 130 = 1053000 items (of gr_complex), I get the following error: gr::vmcircbuf_sysv_shm: shmget(1): Invalid argument gr::vmcircbuf_sysv_shm:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory allocation issue

2014-10-21 Thread Ron Economos
Marcus and Jeff, Works great. Thanks guys. BTW, the default on my Ubuntu 13.10 system was 33,554,432 bytes. best regards, Ron On 10/21/2014 09:19 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ron, yep, that can be, within kernel-caused and total memory

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE and improperly stopping gnuradio

2014-11-05 Thread Ron Economos
Lefteris, If your flowgraph doesn't have a GUI element, you can right click on the Top Block icon and select Quit. Ron On 11/05/2014 02:40 PM, Eleftherios(Lef) Kampianakis wrote: Thanks again for your (rapid) response! 1) I think there should be somekind of bug report on that although

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-dvbt2 DVB-T2 transmitter

2014-11-13 Thread Ron Economos
I've just completed a DVB-T2 transmitter for GnuRadio. https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbt2 This is a baseline implementation of the version 1.1.1 standard. More features to follow, including DVB-T2 Lite. I don't have a DVB-T2 receiver yet, so it's untested over the air. However, it is bit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error to read dat/binary file in octave as well in matlab from gnu radio

2014-12-04 Thread Ron Economos
I am not an Octave expert by any means, but I do have a solution for you. It's pretty slow, but it does work. filename1 = samples.cfile; fid1 = fopen (filename1, r); tmpreal = fread (fid1, float32, 4); fseek(fid1, 4, 'bof'); tmpimag = fread (fid1, float32, 4); DataIn = complex(tmpreal,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadband Applications with USRP

2014-12-04 Thread Ron Economos
You can try my DVB-S2 modulator to do some transmit benchmarking. https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs2 With the test flow graph, to send a 30 MHz wide signal (which is actually typical for real DVB-S2 uplinks), you'll need to set the symbol rate to 30 / 1.2 or 25 Msymbols/sec. Since the modulator

[Discuss-gnuradio] Update to gr-dvbt2

2014-12-08 Thread Ron Economos
The gr-dvbt2 DVB-T2 transmitter has now been tested with a real receiver (a PCTV 292e USB stick). The BBC 32K/256QAM mode works fine on bladeRF (40.2 Mbps in an 8 MHz channel). CPU usage is about 60% on all four cores of an Intel E5-1607. I've added links to test streams in the README for others

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_fft not resonding

2014-12-18 Thread Ron Economos
When a window greys out, it typically means you're using too much CPU. Ron On 12/18/2014 11:45 AM, Richard Bell wrote: I created ~/.gnuradio/config.conf with the following lines in it [wxgui] style=nongl This has not fixed the window not responding issue. Any other ideas? Rich On Thu, Dec

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build fails

2014-12-24 Thread Ron Economos
A fix for this is to change line 39 in volk/kernels/volk/volk_64u_popcntpuppet_64u.h from #ifdef LV_HAVE_SSE4_2 to #if LV_HAVE_SSE4_2 LV_HAVE_64 Ron On 12/23/2014 11:41 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Hi all, With latest sources (after a git pull) the build fails. Kubuntu 14.04 32

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build fails

2014-12-24 Thread Ron Economos
It's a bug on 32-bit systems. Verified here on Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit. Re-running cmake is not going to help. Ron On 12/24/2014 07:04 AM, West, Nathan wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net wrote: A fix for this is to change line 39 in volk/kernels/volk

[Discuss-gnuradio] Block properties XML help

2015-02-03 Thread Ron Economos
I'm looking for some guidance with block properties XML. I have a situation where I'd like to have subsets of options based on some other option setting. For example, in gr-dvbt2, I have an option setting for the version of the specification. Based on that option, I want to have the preamble

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiple SDR Devices on the same computer

2015-02-06 Thread Ron Economos
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: Use bladerf=0 in one instance of the osmocom Source and bladerf=1 in another. Ron On 02/05/2015 07:29 PM, Nguyễn Văn Lý wrote: Dear all, I'm using BladeRF hardware in my system

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiple SDR Devices on the same computer

2015-02-05 Thread Ron Economos
Use bladerf=0 in one instance of the osmocom Source and bladerf=1 in another. Ron On 02/05/2015 07:29 PM, Nguye^~n Va(n Lý wrote: Dear all, I'm using BladeRF hardware in my system. I want to use two devices on the same computer. The *osmocom Source* lets me choose several channels, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for GNURadio

2015-01-26 Thread Ron Economos
I can address the two issues in gr-dtv. CID 1267227 seems spurious. Coverity doesn't complain about the previous line, even though it's doing exactly the same operation. Also, the code executes properly, so there's no doubt that this-J is being set. Of course, the this- business is a bit of a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for GNURadio

2015-01-26 Thread Ron Economos
the parameters but neglected to remove the superfluous setting of the private variables. Ron On 01/26/2015 12:48 AM, Ron Economos wrote: I can address the two issues in gr-dtv. CID 1267227 seems spurious. Coverity doesn't complain about the previous line, even though it's doing exactly the same

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Amplitude settings in uhd_siggen

2015-02-11 Thread Ron Economos
On 02/11/2015 03:05 AM, Martin Braun wrote: On 02/11/2015 10:38 AM, zealdeal wrote: Is this clipping behaviour specific to uhd_siggen? Earlier I have tried to increase the amplitude of an OFDM subcarrier to more than 1.0 and saw linear increase in received amplitude. Clipping took place at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reed-Solomon en/decoder

2015-03-10 Thread Ron Economos
: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: Take a look in: gnuradio/gr-dtv/lib/atsc/atsc_rs_encoder_impl.cc gnuradio/gr-dtv/lib/atsc/atsc_rs_decoder_impl.cc Ron On 03/10/2015 12:30 AM, Jeon wrote

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reed-Solomon en/decoder

2015-03-11 Thread Ron Economos
Reed-Solomon codes are a form of FEC (Forward Error Correction). They make sense for communications channels that don't have a way for the receiver to ask for a re-transmission (such as broadcasting). Reed-Solomon codes are used on many digital formats. One of the first uses of RS coding were

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reed-Solomon en/decoder

2015-03-10 Thread Ron Economos
Take a look in: gnuradio/gr-dtv/lib/atsc/atsc_rs_encoder_impl.cc gnuradio/gr-dtv/lib/atsc/atsc_rs_decoder_impl.cc Ron On 03/10/2015 12:30 AM, Jeon wrote: I need Reed-Solomon encoder and decoder to perform RS(15, 2/4/7/11). I found that there are RS codes in *gr-fec/lib/reed-solomon. * But, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs, gnuradio, libprotobuf issues PLEASE HELP ME

2015-03-24 Thread Ron Economos
I've submitted a pull request for the compile issue in gr-dtv. However, it takes a little while for requests to get merged. You're missing gnuradio-companion because your version of SWIG is failing the version check. See line 982 in your first pastebin. The minimum SWIG version required is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs, gnuradio, libprotobuf issues PLEASE HELP ME

2015-03-25 Thread Ron Economos
gnuradio, it still throws an error about the stdio commands not being included. is there a way to 'make clean' manually or something in pybombs? On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w...@comcast.net wrote: I've submitted a pull request for the compile issue

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cmake can't find 'gnuradio-pmt'

2015-02-26 Thread Ron Economos
Just to be fair to the openLTE folks, it builds just fine here with a properly installed GNU Radio. Ron On 02/26/2015 02:15 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:36 PM, ben Gee grben...@gmail.com mailto:grben...@gmail.com wrote: thanks Tom! That seemed to get me one step

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs, gnuradio, libprotobuf issues PLEASE HELP ME

2015-03-23 Thread Ron Economos
The first error can be repaired by adding the line: #include stdio.h to gnuradio/gr-dtv/lib/atsc/atsc_interleaver_impl.cc I'm not sure how this bug slipped by. Ron On 03/23/2015 03:01 PM, ben Gee wrote: I've picked up some issues over the last month of trying to get a working gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failed to install gnuradio with PyBOMBS

2015-04-01 Thread Ron Economos
I know what's causing this error. It's a function of using the GCC 4.7 compiler. It works with GCC 4.8 or later because the define complex in complex.h is undefined in complex. I'll have a fix for this soon. Ron On 04/01/2015 04:57 PM, Activecat wrote: Dear Sir, Recently I failed to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failed to install gnuradio with PyBOMBS

2015-04-01 Thread Ron Economos
In your previous pull request, you deleted the line: #include complex.h in gr-dtv/lib/dvbt2/dvbt2_paprtr_cc_impl.cc This would directly fix the build issues reported by Activecat and Marcus Leech. Ron On 04/01/2015 06:34 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: I'm not sure my forthcoming pull request

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failed to install gnuradio with PyBOMBS

2015-04-01 Thread Ron Economos
] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Build failed. See output above for error messages. The complete log is at https://github.com/activecat/gnuradio/blob/master/installation_log_003.txt Please advise, thanks. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Ron Economos w...@comcast.net mailto:w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] looking for gnuradio coding style template

2015-04-20 Thread Ron Economos
For curly brace formatting and spacing see the Code Format section of: https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Coding_guide_impl Ron On 04/20/2015 08:25 PM, Richard Bell wrote: This might be what you're looking for:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transition to new digtal TV blocks...

2015-05-11 Thread Ron Economos
You'll have to rebuild them. All the block names have changed from dvbt2_xxx to dtv_dvb_xxx (for blocks that are common to both DVB-T2 and DVB-S2) or dtv_dvbt2_xxx. However, there are new versions of vv003-cr23.grc, vv009-4kfft.grc and vv018-miso.grc in gnuradio/gr-dtv/examples that you can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which blocks do you like?

2015-05-15 Thread Ron Economos
The tone reservation PAPR reduction block used with the DVB-T2 transmitter in gr-dtv may be interesting for you. It uses a ton of floating point calculations. https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/blob/master/gr-dtv/lib/dvbt2/dvbt2_paprtr_cc_impl.cc Even though it uses Volk kernels

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dtv-questions

2015-05-17 Thread Ron Economos
The primary requirement is to the set the Transport Stream bitrate properly. Otherwise, you'll get audio or video stuttering. For DVB-T, the bitrate calculation is straight forward, and there are only so many combinations. I have a command line utility here.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing Existing Custom Blocks Argument List

2015-04-16 Thread Ron Economos
Just add the new variable to each file: /lib/coolblock_xx_impl.cc (3 places, make, new and constructor) /lib/coolblock_xx_impl.h (1 place, constructor) /include/project/coolblock_xx.h (1 place, make) /grc/project_coolblock_xx.xml (1 place, make) Super important step! Delete your entire build

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T/T2

2015-04-07 Thread Ron Economos
The test clips have AC3 audio. AC3 is not used much at all in Europe because broadcasters have to pay an extra licensing fee to Dolby to transmit it. It looks like DVBViewer does not come with an AC3 decoder, but you can add one.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T/T2

2015-04-07 Thread Ron Economos
Yes, rotated constellations are a new feature of DVB-T2. More reading here. http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102800_102899/102831/01.02.01_60/ts_102831v010201p.pdf See section 9.2.3. In addition to the rotation, the I and Q components of a QAM/QPSK symbol are cyclically delayed. Since

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T/T2

2015-04-07 Thread Ron Economos
the files used? So we can reproduce the work? *Van: *Ron Economos w...@comcast.net *Aan: *discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org *Verzonden: *Dinsdag 7 april 2015 08:14:22 *Onderwerp: *Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T/T2 Yes, rotated

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T/T2

2015-04-07 Thread Ron Economos
Only transmitter implementations for now. They are here: https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs2 https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbt2 The DVB-T2 implementation supports T2-Lite, tone reservation PAPR reduction and MISO processing. Ron On 04/07/2015 06:38 AM, Bogdan Diaconescu wrote: Hi Ron, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] error while running example of detect_ff block

2015-04-07 Thread Ron Economos
In your .xml file, the line: makehowto.detect_ff($pfa, $L, $samples)/make should be: makehowto.howto_detect_ff($pfa, $L, $samples)/make Ron On 04/07/2015 09:38 PM, Abhishek Shukla wrote: hey, i have successfully imported detect_ff block. but right now I am getting runtime error while

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using fft::fft_complex in an out-of-tree moudle

2015-05-19 Thread Ron Economos
You have to add FFT to the top level CMakeLists.txt file. Like so: set(GR_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS RUNTIME FFT) Ron On 05/19/2015 07:56 PM, Nguye^~n Va(n Lý wrote: Hi all, I created an out-of-tree module for my personal project. In one block, I need to perform FFT and IFFF, so I put *#include

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with send() function making OOT

2015-06-26 Thread Ron Economos
This is just a wish, but it would be nice if the set_start_time sequence shown below could be added to the UHD Sink and Source blocks in GRC. Seems generic enough (with the delay as a variable). Ron On 06/25/2015 03:27 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: now = usrp_source0.get_time_now() #or however

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM and Chunks_to_Symbol

2015-07-06 Thread Ron Economos
For small constellations, you can just specify the points manually. Here's an example for 16QAM. Just paste into the Symbol Table field in the block properties. The dimension is 1. [complex(3,3), complex(3,1), complex(1,3), complex(1,1), complex(3,-3), complex(3,-1), complex(1,-3),

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error when running GRC flowchart in No GUI mode

2015-08-19 Thread Ron Economos
It's an issue in that particular version of GNU Radio. I see the same thing here. The good news is that the No GUI option works correctly in the latest release (3.7.8). Ron On 08/19/2015 02:55 AM, Miguel Cordero Limón wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble when trying to run a GRC flowchart

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] extremely low buffer usage on perf monitor

2015-08-06 Thread Ron Economos
Just FYI, Jeon's images are a link (to imgur.com). Ron On 08/06/2015 06:49 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: Also, please be careful when sending images in your emails. They make them overly large, and our system might catch and block them instead of letting the pass. Better to either copy the values

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOT block not showing in GRC

2015-08-08 Thread Ron Economos
That's one way to skin the cat. You can also use an install prefix with cmake. cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gnuradio/pybombs ../ Ron On 08/08/2015 03:43 PM, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: Hi Logan: I just went through the same process! My new OOT block wasn't being found. The solution is to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOT block not showing in GRC

2015-08-08 Thread Ron Economos
Yes. I will cause your OOT blocks to be installed in the same place as all the other GNU Radio blocks. Ron On 08/08/2015 03:56 PM, Washbourne, Logan wrote: Kevin, It worked! I really appreciate your help!! Ron, So that install prefix should be pointing to where I installed gnuradio?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB/CW/FM tranceiver

2015-11-08 Thread Ron Economos
Here's a link to a project. http://sodaradio.sourceforge.net/Site/SoDaRadio.html Also, one of the folks on #bladerf has developed a big ham radio orientated GRC flow graph. http://www.unm.edu/~goatman/RadioPresidio.grc Ron W6RZ On 11/07/2015 01:13 PM, Mike Willis wrote: GQRX works very

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB/CW/FM tranceiver

2015-11-08 Thread Ron Economos
You should be able to replace the osmocom Sink and Source blocks with UHD sink and source blocks. Alternatively, you can compile the osmocom blocks with UHD support. Then you just have to change the "Device Arguments" string to remove the bladeRF specific arguments (probably just leave it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-display

2015-11-10 Thread Ron Economos
I forgot to answer your DTV question. At this time, there is no GNU Radio based receiver for DVB-S2 (or DVB-T2). One issue that stands in the way is developing a software LDPC decoder with sufficient performance (ideally, at least 50 Mbps for DVB-T2 and even more for DVB-S2). Therefore, all

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio out-of-tree module on mac

2015-11-09 Thread Ron Economos
You have to tell cmake that CMakeLists.txt is up one directory. The correct command is: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local ../ Ron On 11/09/2015 12:18 AM, chandan kumar wrote: sir, again I am getting some error. I am building a block using python. I edited all the related files like QA

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus E310 FM Radio

2015-11-06 Thread Ron Economos
There is a stereo FM receiver in gr-rds. If you delete the RDS specific blocks in the example flow graph (gr-rds/apps/rds_rx.grc), you don't even have to compile gr-rds. https://github.com/bastibl/gr-rds Ron On 11/06/2015 11:05 AM, John B. Wood wrote: Hello, all. I just subscribed to the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 3.7.8 Windows Binaries available for testing

2015-10-20 Thread Ron Economos
The DVB-T and DVB-T2 transmitters are already part of 3.7.8 in gr-dtv. Ron On 10/20/2015 11:02 AM, Geof Nieboer wrote: That's great news. The DVB-T likely failed because the gr-dvbt OOT block is not yet included. I'll get it in for the release. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Ralph A.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 3.7.8 release?

2015-10-18 Thread Ron Economos
It's already been released on August 5. It's better to check Github rather than the GNU Radio wiki. https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/releases Ron On 10/18/2015 02:16 AM, Fernando Peral wrote: Hi. Is there any aproximate date for the final release? regards

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory allocation issue

2015-10-05 Thread Ron Economos
The correct syntax is: sudo sysctl kernel.shmmax=2147483648 for 2 Gbytes. Ron On 10/05/2015 10:01 PM, Hitesh Kasera wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to implement OFDM TX in GRC but with fft length 2048. according to fft length i have updated syn words, pilot carriers, pilot symbols,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory allocation issue

2015-10-06 Thread Ron Economos
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Ron Economos <w...@comcast.net <mailto:w...@comcast.net>> wrote: The correct syntax is: sudo sysctl kernel.shmmax=2147483648 for 2 Gbytes. Ron On 10/05/2015 10:01 PM, Hitesh Kasera wrote: Hello everyone,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ATSC blocks

2015-09-03 Thread Ron Economos
I believe ATSC Field Sync Demux is now called ATSC Field Sync Checker. Ron On 09/03/2015 06:46 AM, Henry Barton wrote: I've got more info on my problem. Some of the blocks, including ATSC Field Sync Demux, are missing. Could they have been renamed or combined into other blocks? I don't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ATSC won't work with SDRPlay

2015-09-06 Thread Ron Economos
In case there are any other folks trying the ATSC receiver. I did some testing here, and any DC offset spike in the receiver will kill the ATSC demodulator. I'm not sure a DC block will work, but manually compensating the DC offset on a bladeRF did work. I guess offset tuning would also work,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs recipes submodule pointer update policy

2015-09-07 Thread Ron Economos
http://www.cgran.org/ isn't up to date either. Ron On 09/07/2015 07:29 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote: I don't think there is an official policy. I do see that Tim updated the recipes pointer a couple of days ago (https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs/commit/97fe3b3846dc1e10123fdc1c218ed94fa8dba63c). ..

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] On the convolutional code performance of gr-ieee802-11

2015-09-15 Thread Ron Economos
Made a mistake. The DVB-T receiver is not part of the 3.7.8 release. It's a recent commit on the master branch (3.7.9git). Ron On 09/15/2015 01:31 AM, Ron Economos wrote: The author of gr-dvbt looked at this issue when he developed the DVB-T receiver. Here's a blog entry on his findings

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] On the convolutional code performance of gr-ieee802-11

2015-09-15 Thread Ron Economos
The author of gr-dvbt looked at this issue when he developed the DVB-T receiver. Here's a blog entry on his findings. http://yo3iiu.ro/blog/?p=1393 He benchmarked the IT++ decoder in last place. IT++ = 2-3 Mbps gr-trellis = 5 Mbps Karn C = 7-8 Mbps gr-dvbt = 39-40 Mbps The gr-dvbt receiver

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] custom work function gets into an endless loop

2015-09-29 Thread Ron Economos
The dvb_bbheader_bb_impl.cc module in gr-dtv also uses set_output_multiple(). Ron On 09/28/2015 08:36 PM, Kolya wrote: Hi Martin and Sylvain, I obviously didn't understand the forecast function properly but with your help it works now. I tried both: set_output_multiple & a correct

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] On the convolutional code performance of gr-ieee802-11

2015-09-22 Thread Ron Economos
The polynomial in gr-dtv is G1 = 171 and G2 = 133. It is a 1/2 rate code with puncturing to 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8. Ron On 09/21/2015 10:52 PM, Jeon wrote: Thanks for your answers, Ron and Marcus. I posted this question since my module is using both Reed Solomon

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Submitting OOT Module Questions

2015-09-23 Thread Ron Economos
You can take a look at my last gr-dtv commit. It's very similar to what you need to do. https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/commit/b90c574e2fbf0443e1eea2ee06779c2a85f86def Files to consider: gr-dtv/grc/CMakeLists.txt gr-dtv/grc/dtv_block_tree.xml gr-dtv/lib/CMakeLists.txt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Possible LTE signal

2015-12-03 Thread Ron Economos
It looks a little too narrow for 3 MHz LTE. A better frequency to look for LTE is the 700 MHz band. AT nodes will be on 739 MHz, and Verizon nodes will be on 751 MHz. Here's a picture of an AT node. https://twitter.com/drmpeg/status/664557271817449472 Ron On 12/03/2015 07:46 PM, Henry Barton

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T Reception Problem

2015-12-17 Thread Ron Economos
It looks like it's doing a little better. I would try deleting (or bypassing) that Multiply Const block. It may actually be causing trouble for the gr-isdbt OFDM acquisition block. If you do get things running, the viterbi_decoder block needs to be set to Code rate 2/3. Ron On 12/17/2015

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T Reception Problem

2015-12-17 Thread Ron Economos
that? best Federico 2015-12-17 7:51 GMT-03:00 Ron Economos <w...@comcast.net <mailto:w...@comcast.net>>: Marcus, That extremely low signal level is due to a Multiply Const block in the flow graph set to 0.00055242272. In the gr-dtv in-tree version, I've deleted that blo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T Reception Problem

2015-12-16 Thread Ron Economos
Something that you can try is to use the OFDM synchronization block from gr-isdbt. https://github.com/git-artes/gr-isdbt Just replace the gr-dvbt ofdm_sym_acquisition block with the one from gr-isdbt. Leave the freq. error output unconnected. I believe German DVB-T is 16QAM 2/3 rate, so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Waterfall display in uhd_fft

2016-01-03 Thread Ron Economos
You can set the range by middle clicking (with the mouse wheel) and setting the Int. min parameter. Try -120 to start with. Ron On 01/03/2016 03:14 PM, Daniel Marlow wrote: Hello, We are running gnuradio v 3.7.8 on Ubuntu 15.08. H/W is B210.We are looking at our self echo from EME

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fourier Transform on multiple OFDM symbols

2016-01-03 Thread Ron Economos
the GRC file for this. In my execution, I was getting null signals. You can see my setup in the attached file. It's a rather simple version just for illustration. I don't understand why that is not working. On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Ron Economos <w...@comcast.net <mailto:w...@comca

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fourier Transform on multiple OFDM symbols

2016-01-03 Thread Ron Economos
If you want to see individual carriers, you have to use a high resolution FFT. Here's a 262144 point FFT on a DVB-T2 OFDM signal with a 1K FFT (853 active carriers). The carriers are spaced about 9 kHz. Stronger tones are pilots. https://twitter.com/drmpeg/status/670769195160858624 Ron On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone working on ATSC 3.0 enc/dec?

2015-12-29 Thread Ron Economos
ATSC 3.0 is very much like DVB-T2, so at least for the transmitter, you can use many of the DVB-T2 blocks in gr-dtv as a starting point for your development. I'm definitely in wait and see mode on this standard. This is pure speculation, but I have a feeling that ATSC 3.0 may never see the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone working on ATSC 3.0 enc/dec?

2015-12-30 Thread Ron Economos
.0 decoder? Whether or not ATSC 3.0 will ever be a thing... I agree with what Ron has said, and I don't know if it will ever succeed. But with that said, ATSC 3.0 has a better chance in existing in NA as opposed to DVB-T2. Colby On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Ron Economos <w...@comcast.net>

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2015-12-30 Thread Ron Economos
In Canada, you can use up to 2250 watts PEP output on SSB. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01226.html#p10.2 In the US, it's 1500 watts PEP output in any mode. The Kuhne Electronic equipment is excellent stuff. It's essentially commercial equipment that's been re-purposed for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone working on ATSC 3.0 enc/dec?

2015-12-30 Thread Ron Economos
e don't have a good "pure" test signal lab generated or anything, though. Tom On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Ron Economos <w...@comcast.net <mailto:w...@comcast.net>> wrote: > ATSC 3.0 is very much like DVB-T2, so at least for the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Ron Economos
The Ettus B200 will be the preferred ground station for AMSAT's Phase 4 satellite. https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/blob/master/Papers_and_Presentations/AMSAT_DSP_Hardware_Paper_by_Mike_Parker.pdf https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/

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