New Raspberry PI Complete OS release

2021-01-28 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello We’ve been successful in simultaneous radio astronomy with high schools in the US, including California, North Carolina, Illinois, Virginia, New York and West Virginia. We’d like to expand to southern hemisphere as well, so that we can get a full sky image of the Milky Way. We’ve just

Re: {Disarmed} Re: [WVURAIL/gr-radio_astro] Installation difficulty (#20)

2020-06-12 Thread Glen I Langston
radio_astro37 > > gr_modtool update --complete > > cd .. > > cd gr-radio_astro/grc > cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/grc/*.yml . > > cd .. > cd examples/ > > cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/examples/*.grc . > > cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/examples/*.conf . > >

Re: {Disarmed} Re: [WVURAIL/gr-radio_astro] Installation difficulty (#20)

2020-06-11 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi Gisle, I think you’ve revealed the problem that we’ve not “Upgraded” to 3.8. What build environment are you working in Gnuradio 3.7 or 3.8? We’ve been making half hearted, repeatedly failed, attempts to get our code running with 3.8. There are just too many changes to figure them all out.

Gnuradio 3.8 on a Raspberry pi 4 B?

2020-05-24 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello I’ve been a great proponent of gnuradio, but I’m finding in increasing difficult to do anything new, as installation of 3.8 is essentially impossible for most people. I’ve written and built my own python modules and C++ blocks. However, despite months of trying now, I can not get 3.8 to

Re: Gnuradio for Raspberry PI 4 and SDRPLay works well, but need documentation

2019-11-15 Thread Glen I Langston
and at the other end the Tsys was too high, with a reasonable value of about 100 K in the middle of the 1420 MHz band. Still trying to figure this out. Best regards Glen > On Nov 15, 2019, at 11:56 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 11/15/2019 09:17 AM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Than

Re: PlutoSDR & Mac - iio block issues??

2019-11-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Thanks I’ll try that in the future. However I’m not sure why this is an issue in the first place. It should be fixable at the cmake step. Looking at the link provided in an earlier email, it seems like part of the problem is the different uses of site-packages and dist-packages. Can that be

Re: Gnuradio for Raspberry PI 4 and SDRPLay works well, but need documentation

2019-11-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Thank for your help Chris, I have now gotten the SDRPlay connected to my telescope and the results are looking reasonable. My initial problems were with the sense of the gain values, which are actually attenuation values for the SDRPlay. It seems like the defaults are reasonable, and that

Re: PlutoSDR & Mac - iio block issues??

2019-11-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi Kevin, I’ve run into this too. The instructions tell you the solution after the build commands change the “cmake” line to cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr . and rebuild all and do the copy step they suggest on site

Re: Going from GUI to non-GUI operation.

2019-11-14 Thread Glen I Langston
pdate, just like you > can with the GUI. > > On 14 Nov 2019 Thu at 5:28 PM Glen I Langston > wrote: > This email is a question concerning the Gnuradio transition from > a GUI interface to purely python execution. > > We’ve developed a series of gnuradio-companion compatible desig

Going from GUI to non-GUI operation.

2019-11-14 Thread Glen I Langston
This email is a question concerning the Gnuradio transition from a GUI interface to purely python execution. We’ve developed a series of gnuradio-companion compatible designs that are "just about" perfected from our point of view. Now we’re going from interactive mode to fully automatic startup

Re: Gnuradio for Raspberry PI 4 and SDRPLay works well, but need documentation

2019-11-14 Thread Glen I Langston
Thanks Marcus, Concerning your points, I thought I’d edited the Subject line to start a new thread. I’ll be more careful in the future. Also thanks for your clarification of the source code origin. I’ve also directly contacted the folks at SDRPlay. I do think the SDRPlay folks do want to be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi Marcus, That’s great. What could you hear/detect with the 90 kHz bandwidth? Glen > On May 15, 2019, at 5:28 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 05/15/2019 03:23 PM, Brad Hein wrote: >> Great suggestion thank you! This also gives me new topics to read up on as I >> am still a VLF amateur.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Event Detection and Spectral Line Radio Astronomy Working.

2019-04-09 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi Marcus, > On Apr 9, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: >> My goal is to get 4 horns arranged in a “Y” and correlate the common events, >> since we’re recording >> time tagged voltages. With a total spacing of 40’, we might achieve >> localization of about 1 degree >> uncertainty on

[Discuss-gnuradio] Event Detection and Spectral Line Radio Astronomy Working.

2019-04-09 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello Gnu-Radio. We’ve been working to get Radio Astronomy working reliably in Gnuradio. A number of folks have made some excellent contributions to this area. Kevin Bandura and I have been working with the Green Bank Observatory to develop horns for observation of the spiral arm structure of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Custom Block ID as variable

2019-01-30 Thread Glen I Langston
The actual GitHub command is git clone http://GitHub.com/glangsto/gr-nsf sorry for any confusion. Glen > On Jan 30, 2019, at 12:37 PM, Glen I Langston > wrote: > > Thanks for both the question and the answer! > > I’ve been puzzling over how to selectively capture d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] moving_average_ff

2018-12-29 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi There are probably several blocks that could do the running average. I’ve written a version in python, which is a part of the radio astronomy interface. The code and radio astronomy interface and instructions are at: GitHub.com/glangsto/gr-nsf The python blocks are in the sub-directory

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Vector sink question?

2018-06-08 Thread Glen I Langston
with them or just ssh in and run without graphics display? If you do use VNC, which VNC program did you install? Thanks again, Glen > On Jun 8, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 06/08/2018 11:04 AM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Hello Gnuradio Aficionados, >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Vector sink question?

2018-06-08 Thread Glen I Langston
for “linearity” and “sensitivity” do for AIRSPY. > On May 21, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Glen I Langston > wrote: > > Hello all, > > Thanks for all the interesting discussion. Very educational. > > I’ve got a pair of questions concerning the QT vector sink. > > My ap

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Hello GNURadio from the Amateur Radio World

2018-05-27 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi I agree that the Odroids are pretty good. Marcus Leech pointed them out to me. I’ve got a couple XU4s (8 cores) that work pretty well. What I really like is that with the mate operating system and EMMC’s they boot in just a few seconds. Glen > On May 27, 2018, at 11:15 PM, Cinaed Simson

[Discuss-gnuradio] QT Vector sink question?

2018-05-21 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello all, Thanks for all the interesting discussion. Very educational. I’ve got a pair of questions concerning the QT vector sink. My application uses the vector sink for plotting and diagnostics of averaged spectra. I’m getting the impression that the QT vector sink is using a good fraction

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [members] Working with GRC! Vector decimate

2018-03-22 Thread Glen I Langston
ot; is in the end a container of > > all output streams; remember, blocks can have multiple output streams. > > You have exactly one, so you take that by saying > > out = output_items[0] > > > > Same goes for input_items; you want the first one, so use > >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Working with GRC! Vector decimate

2018-03-17 Thread Glen I Langston
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 8:16 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: > > On 03/16/2018 10:57 AM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Hi >> >> Thanks for your help. I know no-one else cares, but >> I’ve finally figured out all the steps to get Vector decima

[Discuss-gnuradio] Working with GRC! Vector decimate

2018-03-16 Thread Glen I Langston
. > You have exactly one, so you take that by saying > out = output_items[0] > > Same goes for input_items; you want the first one, so use > input_items[0] instead of input_items. > > Hope that helps a bit! > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On Thu, 2018-03-1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Vector average with decimate block

2018-03-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello Marcus and all, Sorry to keep dragging on with this vector decimate. I’ve gotten “vave” into grc but it is not running properly. The grc messages I get are below: Generating: '/Users/glangsto/Desktop/Research/vdecimate/keep5.py' Executing:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Vector average with decimate block

2018-03-15 Thread Glen I Langston
gt; Point I'm trying to make: "output_items" is in the end a container of > all output streams; remember, blocks can have multiple output streams. > You have exactly one, so you take that by saying > out = output_items[0] > > Same goes for input_items; you want the first one

[Discuss-gnuradio] Vector average with decimate block

2018-03-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello GnuRadio fans, I’m afraid I’m a complete failure at creating my own vector average with decimate block. This is my 4th week at this endeavor... I’ve run through a number of c++ and python web examples and each time am getting hung up somewhere. I’ve been following the examples from many

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble decimating after averaging 4 vectors? Help?

2018-03-11 Thread Glen I Langston
n[0] is > (4,1024). You're missing a loop that iterates over the input vectors. > > On 03/11/2018 02:06 PM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Hello Gnuradio experts, >> I'm following the gnuradio tutorial for creating an out of tree python block. >> My intention is fairly

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble decimating after averaging 4 vectors? Help?

2018-03-11 Thread Glen I Langston
this. I’ll give it a try. Best regards Glen > On Mar 11, 2018, at 3:23 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: > > On 03/11/2018 02:06 PM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Hello Gnuradio experts, >> >> I'm following the gnuradio tutorial for creating an out of t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Trouble decimating after averaging 4 vectors? Help?

2018-03-11 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello Gnuradio experts,I'm following the gnuradio tutorial for creating an out of tree python block.My intention is fairly simple.  To have a input stream of 4 vectorsand average these 4 vectors, outputting a single average vectorafter the 4th vector arrives.  Right now my vectors are 1024

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Customized Block Giving Incorrect Output

2018-02-13 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello Your discussions are very relevant to an topic we in the radio astronomy group are interested in. We’re looking for transient events and would very much appreciate examples of block implementations that write out selected events, as time series or as spectra. Thansk, Best Regards Glen

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wxgui and gnuradio-companion not making wxgui blocks.....

2017-12-20 Thread Glen I Langston
Hello Fellow Gnu-Radio early adopters, My application, seriously modified for Radio Astronomy, uses WXgui and the “notebook” feature. What is the best way, within “QT” to implement the notebook-like look of the QT version of the program? Ie we enter a lot of information concerning the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Radio Astronomy GSoC 2017 group possible?

2017-02-14 Thread Glen I Langston
05:40 PM, Glen I Langston wrote: >> Hi Marcus, >> >> I just found the problem. My device only has one channel. I deleted >> all the 2nd channel stuff and the spectro_radiometer is working great. >> >> I’ve got to find where the data is going, but I li

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Radio Astronomy GSoC 2017 group possible?

2017-02-07 Thread Glen I Langston
processing hooks to enable realtime detection and writing of values for later processing. Do you think that a Radio Astronomy GSoC topic merits consideration? Thanks Glen > On Feb 7, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: > > On 02/07/2017 04:20 PM, Glen I