[Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus E310 FM Radio

2015-11-06 Thread John B. Wood
be kind of neat. Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely, John B. Wood U.S. Naval Research Laoboratory

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus E310 FM Radio

2015-11-09 Thread John B. Wood
audio would be very good except there's a lot of noise coming through. I don't have this with the mono example. There may be some opportunity for noise clean-up once I absorb what's going on with the flow diagram. Sincerely,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus E310 FM Radio

2015-11-09 Thread John B. Wood
On 11/09/2015 11:15 AM, Philip Balister wrote: O I wonder if the gain setting needs adjusting for the E310? Philip Increasing the RF gain slider doesn't appreciably improve S/N. Make that ditto for the audio gain. The source of the noise is unknown at this time. Sincerely, John B.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus E310 FM Radio

2015-11-09 Thread John B. Wood
On 11/09/2015 12:46 PM, John B. Wood wrote: On 11/09/2015 11:15 AM, Philip Balister wrote: O I wonder if the gain setting needs adjusting for the E310? Philip Increasing the RF gain slider doesn't appreciably improve S/N. Make that ditto for the audio gain. The source of the noise is un

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Building Block Internals

2015-11-10 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, everyone, and I trust most of you will indulge a GRC newbie. After reading some of the online Gnuradio docs, I'm puzzled by what's inside building blocks that appear in the GRC block tree panel. If I select "WBFM Receive" from the "Modulators" tab, for example, I know this defined by t

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

2015-12-29 Thread John B. Wood
On 12/25/2015 01:02 PM, David McQuate wrote: Broadcast radio & TV transmitters, police & fire repeaters, and others have potent signals. If your system does not attenuate them, by using low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass filters, the peak voltage at your analog to digital converter may at times

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Update to GR 3.7.7.9?

2016-01-08 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, everyone. After much assistance from Neel Pandeya and Marcus Leech at Ettus some months back I got my USRP E310 working in the remote mode with GRC 3.7.7.1/Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the local platform. Haven't discovered any bugs or segfaults using this setup. Should I update to the latest

[Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu/GRC Update

2016-08-02 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all, especially to Ettus product users. For sometime now I've been using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS/GRC 3.7.8 to communicate in network mode with my Ettus E310 without issues. The Ubuntu/GRC versions are a "happy" pairing when working with the E310. The question is if I update to Ubuntu 16.04.1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu/GRC Update

2016-08-02 Thread John B. Wood
On 08/02/2016 12:37 PM, Neel Pandeya wrote: Hello John: I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.1 (64-bit) with an E310 right now, and it works fine. I don't think you should have any problems. You could always test it in VirtualBox first. --Neel Pandeya OK, I was afraid of this. After updating from Ubuntu 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu/GRC Update

2016-08-03 Thread John B. Wood
On 08/02/2016 04:06 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: You need to recompile UHD and GNU Radio, or else they will link to the old boost library that 14.04 brought! Sh**! That's exactly what caused me such problems before. I took me several weeks of work with the folks at Ettus just to get everything ru

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu/GRC Update

2016-08-03 Thread John B. Wood
On 08/03/2016 01:35 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi John, well, that's the nature of upgrading a distro: you bring the libraries and runtime to the current revision; everything linking against that needs to re-compile. But: recompiling UHD and should work out of the box, as far as I can tell, i.e. y

[Discuss-gnuradio] Updating SD Card Image on E310

2016-08-31 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. From the Ettus website I recently downloaded and extracted the "sdimage-gnuradio-demo.direct" file from the "ettus-e3xx-sg1" folder (appropriate for my E310 SN). I used dd to copy the image to a micro SD card without incident and installed it in the E310. The E310 boots fine and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Updating SD Card Image on E310

2016-08-31 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. From the Ettus website I recently downloaded and extracted the "sdimage-gnuradio-demo.direct" file from the "ettus-e3xx-sg1" folder (appropriate for my E310 SN). I used dd to copy the image to a micro SD card without incident and installed it in the E310. The E310 boots fine and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Updating SD Card Image on E310

2016-08-31 Thread John B. Wood
On 08/31/2016 11:30 AM, Philip Balister wrote: GNURadio is installed in the usual place in /usr/. Philip Thanks, Philip! I didn't realize that a lot of those directories in /home/root get created the first time you run GRC (including amending PATH so you can launch GRC from the home direc

[Discuss-gnuradio] Upgrading Gnuradio/GRC

2016-09-07 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, everyone. Short of starting with a fresh Fedora or Ubuntu OS build what's the quickest way to remove an older Gnuradio build prior to installing a later version? I have reason to believe trying to install a newer build doesn't overwrite all the older stuff and can cause startup issues

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU flow graph containing a UHD block - unable to detect USRP E310

2016-09-29 Thread John B. Wood
On 09/28/2016 05:53 AM, John Smith wrote: I have an E310 device connected over an Ethernet link to a laptop running GNU Radio. When I attempted to execute a GNU flow graph containing a UHD block, I got the following error: RuntimeError: LookupError: KeyError: No devicesfound for -> Empty D

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU flow graph containing a UHD block - unable to detect USRP E310

2016-09-30 Thread John B. Wood
On 09/29/2016 11:44 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi John, I really hate to nitpick, but I also feel that I must clarify a few things: 1. The E310 has to be placed into "network mode", which loads the E310 FPGA with appropriate code. No, network mode works with the default (and only) FPGA image –

[Discuss-gnuradio] E310 with larger micro SD card

2016-09-30 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all and perhaps a question for Ettus: While I really don't have a need for this right now I was wondering if the E310 can use micro SD cards larger than 8 GB. I've downloaded updated 8 GB card images from Ettus that work fine (as they should) when copied to an 8 GB card but could that

[Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA Images on Ettus E310

2016-10-13 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. In the /usr/share/uhd/images directory on the ARMv7 processor (p/o of the E310 and running Xilinx Linux) there are a number of FPGA images for ostensibly other architectures besides the E310. If another of these, say one of the several ones for an N210 device are loaded into the E

[Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310

2017-01-05 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. This may be a "RTFM" question but with the stock tools in GRC (or a non-GRC generated .py file) can a gaussian white noise generator be readily implemented on an Ettus E310 to provide a broadband RF noise output (some level in dBW/Hz) over a specified bandwidth (within the capabili

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310

2017-03-23 Thread John B. Wood
s, Marcus On 01/05/2017 08:18 PM, John B. Wood wrote: Hello, all. This may be a "RTFM" question but with the stock tools in GRC (or a non-GRC generated .py file) can a gaussian white noise generator be readily implemented on an Ettus E310 to provide a broadband RF noise output (some l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310

2017-03-28 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. When I connect a GRC "Fast Noise Source" block output to the input of a "UHD: USRP Sink" (an Ettus E310) and connect a spectrum analyzer to the Tx port on the E310 I can see the RF output. My question (using either a gaussian or normal distribution specified as a baseband input to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310

2017-03-28 Thread John B. Wood
On 03/28/2017 01:51 PM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: The baseband signal is simply mixed with the LO in the hardware. Thanks, Marcus. That should equate to AM which is what I want. Sincerely, John Wood U.S, Naval Res

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310 (Update)

2017-04-10 Thread John B. Wood
Hello, all. Perhaps I was a little too optimistic in attempting to use the Ettus E310 as a broadband noise source. I'm using the GRC models "Fast Noise Source" with uniform noise type connected to a "UHD: USRP Sink" with a CF of 1 GHZ and sample rate set to 4 Msps. Running the GRC-generated

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AWGN using E310 (Update)

2017-04-10 Thread John B. Wood
On 04/10/2017 09:31 AM, Dan CaJacob wrote: It's probably unreasonable to expect the ARM processor to deliver 56 Msps to the 9361 without underflowing. It's just not that fast. It's marginal even on a high performance desktop CPU. You could try implementing a noise source in the FPGA using RFNO