[Discuss-gnuradio] Debian/jessie-backports packages

2016-01-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
The install page: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/InstallingGR currently mentions: $ apt-get install gnuradio Given that some people want latest code, it would be useful to have the packages in jessie-backports and describe that on the wiki too. E.g. $ apt-get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] edits to HamRadio wiki page

2016-01-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/01/16 01:04, Martin Braun wrote: > Daniel, > > thanks for editing the wiki! One thing (unrelated to the fact that this > is a page for hams) is that there's a lot of overlap with other pages. > The installation, for example, is covered elsewhere and I'm not sure why > you're specifically

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hardware comparison tables

2016-01-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/01/16 15:55, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro > <mailto:dan...@pocock.pro>> wrote: > > > > There is a list of hardware at this page: > > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnurad

[Discuss-gnuradio] hardware comparison tables

2016-01-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
There is a list of hardware at this page: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Hardware Is anybody maintaining a table summarizing the GNU Radio hardware options for easy comparison? I can imagine that some of the following columns would be useful: - price (board alone/raw

[Discuss-gnuradio] coverage of common ham bands

2016-01-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
One specific issue I notice when comparing hardware is that some devices cover HF bands (under 30MHz) while others don't, e.g. USRP B2x0 starts at 70MHz. There are some discussions about using upconverters (with insertion loss, and receiver only) or just buying multiple SDRs. Are there any

[Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
Based on the USRP specs (up to 100mW output power), I started looking around for amps that would get me up to a level comparable with other amateur rigs. This is one of the first I found:

[Discuss-gnuradio] edits to HamRadio wiki page

2016-01-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
I started editing the HamRadio wiki page with some of the feedback from recent discussions: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/HamRadio Can anybody see any flaws in the content or the structure I have used? Can anybody think of examples to add to the links?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/12/15 22:24, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > Cannot stress this enough: > Don't try to do everything to the max right from the start. Sure, 100mW > is a lot less than what can do in the licensed bands, but then again, > not coming from an amateur background, 120W right out scare me.

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

2015-12-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 24/12/15 16:21, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > about to take a walk, so please excuse my brevity: > > On 12/24/2015 01:26 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> On 24/12/15 08:31, Marcus Müller wrote: >>> Forgot: >>> >>> [1] http://marcus.host

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

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 25/12/15 15:18, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using them for > real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and PAs. "Out of > the box" it will only be some proof of concept when you create a ham radio

[Discuss-gnuradio] USB 3.0 controllers for SDR

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
The Ettus web site has a page about USB chipsets[1], suggesting some of them can't handle the continuous streaming for SDR Is this information up to date, can anybody else comment on this? I'm looking at using a HP Z800 workstation which has quite a lot of grunt but only has USB 2 built-in, HP

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

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 25/12/15 19:44, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 12/25/2015 09:18 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using >> them for real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and >> PAs. "Out of the box" it will only be

[Discuss-gnuradio] detecting covert RFID scans

2015-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
I did a search for RFID on the wiki and it didn't find anything http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93_pages=1=rfid Looking through the mailing list history there have been some discussions though, e.g.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] detecting covert RFID scans

2015-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/12/15 19:03, Marcus Müller wrote: > The problem is that technically, the energy sent out by an RFID reader > isn't big enough to detect readers from afar; they are near-field > devices, as opposed to the typical far-field antenna based radio > transmitters. > If the sniffer was carried

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

2015-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
n 12/24/2015 01:57 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> [...] >> OK, I'll probably get into making some contributions like that as I >> start playing around with it. I'm still at a very early stage just >> working out which hardware I need and how to get it. >> >> Will

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

2015-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/12/15 09:40, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Kevin, > beautiful email! > > On 12/27/2015 01:16 AM, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: >> Amateur radio has also historically been a source of innovation and new >> technologies. This has been fairly constant throughout the 100+ years of >> amateur

[Discuss-gnuradio] asynchronous messaging frameworks

2015-12-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
Is there any generic documentation about the use of GNU Radio with asynchronous messaging and integration frameworks or would it be useful to build up a wiki page about the topic? I came across some pages referring to ZeroMQ support[1], I was also curious about support for Qpid Proton[2] and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FOSDEM/SDR Track: Final Schedule Announced

2015-12-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/12/15 23:06, Martin Braun wrote: > Dear friends and fellow SDR enthusiasts, > > please note the final SDR track schedule is available through the FOSDEM > website: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/software_defined_radio/ > > All talks will be recorded and made publically available

[Discuss-gnuradio] VFO tuning knobs

2015-12-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
I realize that SDR provides more than one way to view the spectrum and tune to a frequency, but I can imagine some people feeling comfortable with a tuning knob similar to a traditional radio. There doesn't appear to be any technical reason why a VFO knob could not be part of an SDR application.

[Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, I did a quick search for resources for ham/amateur operators getting started with GNU Radio, I came across these: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/HamRadio http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/grc-examples Both of them refer to receivers, the latter has an SSB transmitter

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

2015-12-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 24/12/15 08:31, Marcus Müller wrote: > Forgot: > > [1] http://marcus.hostalia.de/sdra/pres.pdf > Thanks for the fast reply, I had a look and I notice you emphasize the USRP products, you mention the B200 and B210 (the OZ9AEC link I found also mentioned USRP but didn't specify model

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

2015-12-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/12/15 23:28, Marcus Müller wrote: > In a perfect world. > > In a world where we actually live in, everything but Ubuntu 15.10 uses > horribly, horribly outdated UHD, which, as you can imagine, leads to > terrible headaches on my side. Not even accounting for the fact that the > package

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2016-01-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/01/16 07:18, Martin Braun wrote: > Daniel, > > can you please group the pages into something cohesive? Not sure if the > common theme is 'ham radio' or 'hardware', but something like that. > > Thanks for adding all the content! There is already a hardware page listing SDR devices:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2016-01-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/01/16 11:23, Martin Braun wrote: > On 01/11/2016 09:20 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> On 11/01/16 07:18, Martin Braun wrote: >>> Daniel, >>> >>> can you please group the pages into something cohesive? Not sure if the >>> common theme is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2016-01-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/12/15 22:24, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > Cannot stress this enough: > Don't try to do everything to the max right from the start. Sure, 100mW > is a lot less than what can do in the licensed bands, but then again, > not coming from an amateur background, 120W right out scare me.

[Discuss-gnuradio] transmitter switching (PTT switches, microphones, Vox)

2016-01-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
I added a new wiki page about this topic: https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/TransmitterActivation Does anybody have any examples of hardware they have tested, e.g. microphones with PTT switch? It would be useful to list some of them on the page. Can anybody comment on how

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifiers on TX

2016-01-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/01/16 14:29, Martin Braun wrote: > On 01/11/2016 02:26 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I think somebody with wiki admin rights needs to do that >> >> I don't see the rename link on the page. If I add "/rename" to the URL >> it tells me "You are not

[Discuss-gnuradio] Zurich meeting 8 March 2016

2016-02-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
I just heard about the meeting in Zurich on 8 March: http://www.meetup.com/pyzurich/events/228746248/ and I may be able to come along, I can bring a dual band FM handheld transceiver if that will be useful. Regards, Daniel ___ Discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] similarities to Apache Camel

2016-03-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
Has anybody else come across Apache Camel[1]? There are similarities between building a route[2] in Camel and a flow graph[3] in GNU Radio In Camel, the components[4] are a lot more generic while in GNU Radio they are very domain-specific. Nonetheless, I couldn't help feeling that if somebody

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HAMRADIO Friedrichshafen / SDRA (was: Google Summer of Code / ham radio)

2016-03-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 09/03/16 10:31, Markus Heller wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm still waiting for some information so that I can send out the > official Call for Papers for this year's > > Software Defined Radio Academy > > at HAMRADIO Friedrichshafen, 25.06.2016. > > Please consider this mail as some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code / ham radio

2016-03-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 09/03/16 00:16, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro > <mailto:dan...@pocock.pro>> wrote: > > On 08/03/16 20:52, Johnathan Corgan wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Pocock <dan

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] transmitter switching (PTT switches, microphones, Vox)

2016-03-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 10/01/16 18:45, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > USB sound devices with mute/unmute buttons usually have a USB endpoint > that enumerates as Human Interface Device; in that way, they are simply > keyboards with a highly limited set of keys. > Now, I'm not aware of any GNU Radio OOT that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] events, Friedrichshafen (Germany), Linuxwochen (Vienna)

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/03/16 21:23, Markus Heller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > let me organize something. I guess we'll arrange an informal SDR & > GNURadio dinner after the SDRA somewhere in the city, with the SDRA > speakers and all GNURadio folks. Of course it will be open to all open > source people. > > I'll

[Discuss-gnuradio] events, Friedrichshafen (Germany), Linuxwochen (Vienna)

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, Is there any official GNU Radio table at Friedrichshafen[1] (24-26 June) or any interest in sharing a community table with any other free software projects? Does anybody plan to visit Linuxwochen[2] (Vienna, 28 - 30 April) or even do a talk there? Should things like this go into the

[Discuss-gnuradio] presence at Friedrichshafen 2016?

2016-04-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Is there any dedicated GNU Radio booth at Friedrichshafen[1]? Is anybody aware of any other free software projects that will have a booth or share a booth? Would it be worthwhile building a wiki page with a list of businesses who will feature GNU Radio alongside their own products at their

[Discuss-gnuradio] HF transmitter hardware solutions

2016-04-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
What solutions are people using for transmitting on HF bands (1 - 30 MHz)? There is a lot of information online about upconverters for receiving the HF bands. However, like receivers, many of the SDR transmitters only seem to cover bands above 30MHz[1] e.g. HackRF: 30MHz - ... bladeRF :

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FW: HF transmitter hardware solutions

2016-04-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 07/04/16 20:01, John Petrich wrote: > Dan, Lou, Ron, and others, > > Dan you are doing a great job of beating the drum: searching for "solutions > for transmitting on HF" The question is a big one and can be broken down > into three basic issues. The basic or elemental SDR platform

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC Proposal

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
Parth, have you decided if you want to apply or do you need more information? You are correct, the project description is not clear or complete. Ham radio is a hobby and in that spirit I don't want to tell you exactly what to do, I want you to make suggestions about goals and deliverables for

[Discuss-gnuradio] registering as mentor on GSoC site?

2016-03-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, Can somebody please give me mentor access in the GSoC site so I can review proposals for the project I proposed and make sure the students I'm corresponding with have registered before the deadline? I've registered with the program using this email address, please let me know if I need

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC Proposal

2016-03-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 20/03/16 00:53, Parth Sane wrote: > Hi Daniel, > The problem is I haven’t used GNU radio very much and also don’t understand > its internals properly. Also like you said there is no proper task > definition. I do want to participate but the problem here, is I frankly don’t > know what to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code / ham radio

2016-03-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/02/16 18:51, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 04/02/16 18:35, Martin Braun wrote: >> Daniel, >> >> that sounds pretty good! We're currently polishing our ideas list (the >> current draft is at >> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GSoCI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Google Summer of Code / ham radio

2016-03-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/03/16 20:52, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro > <mailto:dan...@pocock.pro>> wrote: > > > Debian and GNU Radio are both confirmed in GSoC this year, is there > interest in advertising this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] creating a new list for announcements?

2016-04-04 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/04/16 16:55, martijn wrote: > So a specific list for HAM Radio use of gnuradio might be an interesting > option too. > Creating other lists, like gnuradio-hams, would be a good idea too. The announce list is the most critical one, if people ever find they don't have time for any of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] comparing SDR upconverters, thermal stability

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/03/16 16:30, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > haven't made experience with any of these upconverters; but: > > The really temperature-sensitive aspect of an upconverter is probably > the oscillator, not the mixer. So the trick might really be keeping > your upconverter in the same

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] comparing SDR upconverters, thermal stability

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/03/16 16:49, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: > All of them use reasonably good crystals or crystal XOs. Certainly a > lot better than the RTLSDRs most of these were intended for. > > I assume that you're talking about frequency stability, rather than gain > stability? > Yes, frequency

[Discuss-gnuradio] creating a new list for announcements?

2016-04-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
The activity levels on the discuss-gnuradio mailing list reflect the great success of the project but this may also make it easier for people to miss important announcements, like the recent one about GNU Radio Conference 2016 Would it be feasible to setup a gnuradio-announce list just for the

[Discuss-gnuradio] comparing SDR upconverters, thermal stability

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, Has anybody been using any of the upconverters for SDR and has anybody made any comparison of them? I've seen some comments suggesting that many of the low cost models have poor thermal stability[1], has anybody seen problems with this in practice for receiving modes like SSB on

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio / Debian / ham workshop Vienna, this Sunday 1 May

2016-04-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
As part of MiniDebConf[1] and Linuxwochen[2] we're running a workshop[3] on ham radio, SDR and Debian this Sunday, 1 May in Vienna Please feel free to join us and publicize the event to anybody you know in the area. If you can bring any ham radio or SDR equipment or if you would like to

[Discuss-gnuradio] CT1FFU converter with RTL-SDR and gqrx

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
After looking at the different upconverters, I decided to try the CT1FFU device[1] first. The marketing says it is available with either 106.25 MHz or 65.520 MHz LO. The manual[2] only mentions a 106.25 MHz LO I was initially using the offset -106.25 in the gqrx configuration. I wasn't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CT1FFU converter with RTL-SDR and gqrx

2016-04-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/04/16 23:11, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 18/04/16 22:32, Ron Economos wrote: >> There's a high pass filter on the output that is designed to pass >> frequencies above 150 MHz. If the LO is only 40 MHz, the high pass >> filter will greatly attenuate the entir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CT1FFU converter with RTL-SDR and gqrx

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/04/16 22:32, Ron Economos wrote: > There's a high pass filter on the output that is designed to pass > frequencies above 150 MHz. If the LO is only 40 MHz, the high pass > filter will greatly attenuate the entire HF band. > That had occurred to me as well, although I notice they are now

[Discuss-gnuradio] Debian Hams and SDR workshop at OSCAL'17, Tirana, Albania

2017-04-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, I'm going to Tirana, Albania for OSCAL'17[1] (13-14 May) and will give a workshop about Debian Hams[2] and SDR. Will anybody else from the Debian Hams or GNU Radio communities be there? Does anybody have any local contacts in the region to raise awareness of the event? Regards,

[Discuss-gnuradio] choosing hardware for demos, ham purposes

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, Up to now the equipment I've been using has included the RTL-SDR dongle, Ham-It-Upconvertor, ATU and the UR5LAJ Band Pass Filter and I've had a lot of interest when giving talks about it at FOSDEM, Mini DebConf and other events. I'm now looking to get transmit capability and would welcome

[Discuss-gnuradio] OSCAL'17 report, amateur HF reception blog

2017-05-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, The workshop at OSCAL[1] was successful and on the second day, the SDR setup was in the courtyard with the info booths where just about everybody stopped to see it. I've written a detailed blog[2] about the equipment I used (antenna, balun, ATU, upconverter, dongle, etc) so anybody else

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] choosing hardware for demos, ham purposes

2017-05-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 19/05/17 01:49, q...@kd4e.com wrote: > Has anyone actually used a LimeSDR for Ham RX/Tx yet? > > I held-off buying one early due to the absence of even a bread-boarded > proof-of-concept Ham RxTx, or even a VFO or single conversion Rx. > This has also been discussed on the debian-hams

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OSCAL'17 report, amateur HF reception blog

2017-05-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
rom: Discuss-gnuradio [mailto:discuss-gnuradio- >> bounces+ralph=schmid@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Pocock >> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:17 AM >> To: GNURadio Mailing List >> Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] OSCAL'17 report, amateur HF reception blog >> >> >> Hi a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] choosing hardware for demos, ham purposes

2017-05-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/05/17 23:16, Raj Bhattacharjea wrote: > Daniel, > > Philip Ballister got in touch with me and thought some of the > following material might help you out: > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304346578_Open-Source_SDR_on_Embedded_Platforms > > Now to address some of your specific

[Discuss-gnuradio] multi-protocol (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, LightwaveRF) home automation

2018-11-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi everybody, How feasible is it to implement multiple home automation protocols (e.g. Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, LightwaveRF) and run them on low cost, low power hardware, e.g. Raspberry Pi + LimeSDR? If that particular hardware combo can't handle it, is there any other permutation that may be

oscilloscope suggestions

2020-10-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Oscilloscopes have changed a lot in recent years Has anybody used GNU Radio to make a basic oscilloscope? There are many generic ADC to USB devices now, some are purpose-built for use as an oscilloscope. Has anybody tried any of them in a pure free software environment, either with GNU Radio