Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Time

2014-01-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/10/2014 06:19 PM, Paul B. Huter wrote: I am looking for a block that will give me a time while I am playing back my data in GNURadio Companion. By this, I mean something that will pop up when I start my flow and show me the time since the flow was started. I do not care if it does not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK Real Time Voice Tx/Rx

2014-01-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/13/2014 04:38 PM, Marqo Torres wrote: Hi, thanks for replying. I'm using 16kHz in Audio sample-rate and 256kHz in USRP sink/source blocks. Also I've noticed that when I change the config.d values in the files from the gnuradio folder there's a variation in the breaking up voice in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-users] B200 gain control and RF input power

2014-01-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
there that could be hybridized to interface to an SDR approach. But radar isn't my particular expertise. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 01/17/2014 09:37 AM, Luke Hough wrote: As a hobby project, I am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Finding a particular version

2014-01-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/18/2014 01:49 AM, Nikos Balkanas wrote: Sorry, can't do. As i mentioned before, it is not my code to port :-(. Subversion is still around and good. I have downloaded the first revision from 2006. However, I can't tell which version is and it has a bug, so it cannot build. Thanx for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Finding a particular version

2014-01-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/18/2014 11:42 AM, Nikos Balkanas wrote: The revisions that I was interested, don't use cmake. :-( I think the point that Tom is making is that the project *HAS* been using adequate version number practice *for several years*, so criticism of versioning practice that is at this point 8

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wxWidgets

2014-01-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/18/2014 10:09 PM, Activecat wrote: Dear Sir, I am learning wxWidgets in order to use it with gnuradio. I find that WX GUI FFT Sink and WX GUI Scope Sink are programmed in python, not C++. Is this true? If yes, then I may just learn wxPython first. Please advise, thanks. Regards,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sched is requesting more input data than we can provide

2014-01-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/23/2014 04:00 PM, Miklos Maroti wrote: Hi! I am getting this error: sched:xxx is requesting more input data than we can provide. ninput_items_required = 16000 max_possible_items_available = 8191 and I have no idea how to fix it. Is it possible to request more buffer space?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to use FFT without grc block

2014-01-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/24/2014 09:55 AM, Nasi wrote: Coder is a good coder if his code is readable first. Anyone one can design a confusing language. A programmers job in documentation isn't to teach you the language the code is written in. It is assumed that the reader knows the language already.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to use FFT without grc block

2014-01-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
, 24 января 2014, 10:33 -05:00 от Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com: On 01/24/2014 09:55 AM, Nasi wrote: Coder is a good coder if his code is readable first. Anyone one can design a confusing language. A programmers job in documentation isn't to teach you the language

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Questions

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/25/2014 04:59 PM, Andrew Rich wrote: Hi, got some questions 1. Can GNURadio run on OpenSUSE Linux Yes. 2. Can GNURadio work with RTL SDR dongles ? Yes. 3. What can you do with the output of GNU Radio For instance, other than listening , can you decode AX25 decode PSK31 visualise the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need an indicator on the GUI display

2014-01-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/26/2014 05:34 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi Jim, you can easily code your own GUI ;). Actually, I find that streaming values via UDP or TCP to a remote python application works rather nicely. And I find that gygtk and pycairo are rather powerful toolsets. Also I fiddled around with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
for the signals coming from Thuruya. The Iridium birds are *strong*, and also in fairly low orbits. You might need a *real* LNA at those frequencies--a GPS LNA would work, except that you'd likely have to remove the 1575MHz filter. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Float version of the Frequency Xiating FIR Filter?

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/29/2014 07:24 PM, Jordan Johnson wrote: I am attempting to translate a 20khz DRM signal from its default spot of 10khz, to 120khz. The Frequency Xiating FIR does this just fine but it also decimates the signal--which I do not want. I want to pass the float input as a float until the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD stream tagging

2014-02-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/08/2014 02:37 PM, Price, Nathan D. (ST-Student) wrote: Hello, I'm working on project in gnuradio, in which I'm trying to toggle on and off the transmission from the USRP. After much research, I learned this was done by tagging the first sample of a transmission with tx_sob and the last

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why does Airprobe no longer work with current GNU Radio?

2014-02-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/09/2014 09:11 PM, zhenhua han wrote: Hi all, I'm new here to use GNU Radio. And I'm trying to decode GSM signal with airprobe. In GSoC page of GNU Radio, I found these words: It no longer works with current GNU Radio versions, and doesn't make use of any of the new GNU Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/11/2014 11:22 AM, Pablo Fernández Alonso wrote: In the FM receiver: Why a LPF is used instead of a BPF in order to select the Radio channel that we want to hear? That is the only part I don't understand. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IQ changing with restart

2014-02-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/11/2014 11:57 AM, Martin Braun wrote: On 11.02.2014 06:19, Sylvain Munaut wrote: Hi, I've done my homework on this one, crawled through the web talked to colleagues. If I am missing something obvious please point it out - it's not for lack of effort on my part! I'm not really sure

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Idea of a USRP UHD block that fills gaps in transmission from USRP

2014-02-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/13/2014 11:19 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: Piotr, One problem is that if you cannot keep up, adding in all-zeros data will just make it harder to keep up. In general, modern PCs should be able to keep up with 25 MS/s without problem unless you are doing a lot of processing. We are actually

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Different sensing results with same hypothesis

2014-02-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/19/2014 12:34 PM, Dan CaJacob wrote: Oh, you were talking about the daughterboard itself. No guarantees there, but the schematics are all available. I think there was a recent discussion about this on the list. What I was saying specifically, was that there is no AGC in the USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Clarification regarding Sample width in USRP.

2014-03-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/01/2014 11:00 PM, Manu T S wrote: Hello Everyone, From little bit of googling I understood that there are different sample width possible in USRP. If my understanding is correct, we can use 16/8 bit sample width. But my usrp block in GNU Radio lists complex float32 and complex int16,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Support e-mails to supp...@ettus.com

2014-03-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Folks: I've been on the road for the last 8 days, and I just got back this evening. Any of you who are waiting for a reply from supp...@ettus.com, I'll be working my way through the back-log tomorrow. Not ignoring you, just was on the road. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure of sending square wave over USRPs (back-to-back)

2014-03-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/14/2014 01:05 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: The hardware PLL in the receive section of the daughterboard serves an entirely different purpose; it is there to create the local oscillator signal at the frequency requested when tuning. However, that frequency is ultimately derived from a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure of sending square wave over USRPs (back-to-back)

2014-03-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/14/2014 10:51 PM, Activecat wrote: Dear Martin, On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.com wrote: Here's a very brief explanation: The PLL for the synthesizer makes sure the locally generated frequency is stable (per-device). It's physically impossible to make

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure of sending square wave over USRPs (back-to-back)

2014-03-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/15/2014 12:10 AM, Activecat wrote: Dear Marcus, On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: The SBX does analog downconversion, nothing more. It knows nothing about the incoming signal, and doesn't demodulate it in any way. Please be clarified what do you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure of sending square wave over USRPs (back-to-back)

2014-03-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/15/2014 02:57 AM, Activecat wrote: Dear Marcus, Please avoid adding more confusions rather than clarities. The term upconversion and downconversion are common terms used in the radio engineering industry, but may not be common among other technical folks. In radio engineering industry,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure of sending square wave over USRPs (back-to-back)

2014-03-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
This thread is starting to get a little too confrontational, so we all need to take a bit of a break. Please take a look at the PLL blocks in GNU Radio; you can find them under the Synchronizers category in the block tree of GRC. Spend some time understanding these blocks and how to use them.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] For Sale: bladeRF x115 with GPIO expansion

2014-03-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/15/2014 09:57 PM, Louis Brown wrote: Quite so. I have a GPSDO though, so it's nice to be able to lock to that. Last week I recorded WWVB (60 kHz) amplitude and phase for 1 week to monitor propagation. Interesting results to see the fades over 6 days Phase was futile though as their

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_fft missing

2014-03-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/16/2014 03:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Using gentoo linux I installed uhd and gnuradio with the commands emerge uhd and emerge gnuradio. According to http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/HowToUse: GNU Radio comes with a large variety of tools and programs... The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_fft missing

2014-03-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/16/2014 05:06 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Marcus, Thank you. In gentoo speak, what you said typically translates to The gnuradio ebuild has a uhd USE flag. Make sure the uhd USE flag is enabled. Well, I checked and sure enough it was disabled. I'm rebuilding now but I'm sure it will

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD blocks

2014-03-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/20/2014 03:56 PM, Sara Chérif wrote: My friend has installed GNU Radio from this link http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2012/07/installing-gnu-radio-in-ubuntu-12-04-x64/comment-page-1/ Then when running GNURadio , she found UHD blocks in it . 1- Does this mean that this link has installed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gqrx segfaults: rtlsdr_read_async returned with -5

2014-03-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/21/2014 12:41 PM, M Dammer wrote: I updated from a gnuradio 3.7.3 git version (before 3.7.3 was officially released). I updated the pybombs recipes via git before the update. Pybombs update removed all updateable gnuradio stuff and installed it new as expected. I can actually confirm the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD build apparently failed

2014-03-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/21/2014 09:40 PM, Sara Chérif wrote: As I am installing GNU Radio from this link: http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2012/07/installing-gnu-radio-in-ubuntu-12-04-x64/comment-page-1/ (which installs GNU Radio UHD ) I got the following error , what can i do ? Thanks :) [ 26%] Building CXX object

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD build apparently failed

2014-03-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
ff1546f8137f7f92bb250f685561b0c34cc0e053 Author: Ben Hilburn ben.hilb...@ettus.com Date: Fri Feb 14 12:05:07 2014 -0800 Pushing the bulk of UHD-3.7.0 code. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 03/21/2014 09:40 PM, Sara

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD build apparently failed

2014-03-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/23/2014 12:08 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote: Hi Marcus, On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Here's a bit of git log of what I'm building: commit a8caec5f93976c081d488118f53a72dca49efdf6 Author: Ashish Chaudhari ash

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD build apparently failed

2014-03-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
. Frustrating. On 03/23/2014 06:10 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 03/23/2014 12:08 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote: Hi Marcus, On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Here's a bit of git log of what I'm building: commit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD build apparently failed

2014-03-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/23/2014 07:08 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: This calls for #include cmath; I wonder how that is working on my f19 Yup, that took care of it. Then there's the b200_iface.cpp problem with libusb on my system not having libusb_error_name, so I had to copy the macro from transport/zero_copy

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AM Stereo TX? (Motorola C-QUAM)

2014-03-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/24/2014 07:59 PM, Jordan Johnson wrote: I have been Googling a good deal and have not come up with much. I have done numerous projects with GNURadio, but while I can throw together a wideband AM transmitter, I cannot figure out the stereo portion. Based on what I know; it is some kind

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Received power measurement

2014-03-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/26/2014 07:04 AM, Medhat Hamdy wrote: Hi all, I need to know if there is any method to measure the received signal power using USRP N210. I am using gr_probe_avg_mag_sqrd_x_0 to measure the signal strength, however, the results are not accurate. Thanks

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing two signals for Radar application.

2014-03-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Hi Marcus, here is the flow graph and the output signals with movement across the antennae and without. http://tinypic.com/r/a5et5k/8 (GRC flow) http://tinypic.com/r/nbeq0k/8 (without movement) http://tinypic.com/r/2s7dnye/8 (with movement) Thank you. Dimitris. OK, so I looked at the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GIT checkout of Gnu Radio failed!

2014-03-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Yes , I tried it again it works :) Thanks Tom , Volker Nathan . I ran gnuradio in terminal after installing I see there is no problem in it sara@ubuntu:~/gnuradio$ gnuradio-companion Warning: Block key blocks_ctrlport_monitor_performance not found when loading category tree. Warning: Block

[Discuss-gnuradio] GR 3.7 build failure

2014-03-30 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I haven't tried building Gnu Radio in a while, and on my F14 system today: 15%] Building CXX object gr-blocks/lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-blocks.dir/message_strobe_random_impl.cc.o In file included from /home/mleech/gnuradio/gr-blocks/lib/message_strobe_random_impl.cc:27:0:

[Discuss-gnuradio] Playing with 3.7

2014-03-31 Thread Marcus D. Leech
So, I have this flow-graph that mostly works under 3.7 now, except for something that's horrible. In my flow-graph, I have two layers of selectors, to select the input for a WX GUI FFT sink. The layers select either the raw or filtered chunk of bandwidth (coming off the 4 hardware sources),

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT filter bug in GR3.7.4

2014-04-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Tag: v3.7.4git-50-ga8f73d85 This demonstrates a horrible bug I found in FFT filters--change the size from little to quite large, and the scheduler goes running home to momma: thread[thread-per-block[1]: block fft_filter_ccc (12)]: Buffer too small for min_noutput_items I've attached a

[Discuss-gnuradio] simple_ra/gr-ra_blocks updated for GR3.7

2014-04-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've updated simple_ra and gr-ra_blocks for GR3.7. NOT extensively tested And when building gr-ra_blocks, your PKG_CONFIG_PATH had better include /usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64 prior to doing the cmake. -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT filter bug in GR3.7.4

2014-04-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
That's actually not surprising. The buffer is established when the top_block is started and will be based on the size of the FFT you need to run. Increasing the size of the filter will not increase the size of the buffer. We'll have to figure out how we want the solution to this to look.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Problem with getting clear FM signals using the usrp e110

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/10/2014 06:27 AM, Abouda Yassine wrote: Thank you all for your responses.I tried to follow your instructions and I did a lot of experiments to make the fm_receiver work.I have come to some conclusions,the USRP E110 is really not that powerful,I frankly say that I am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New GRC behavior request for comment

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/10/2014 04:13 PM, Ed Criscuolo wrote: How hard would it be to pop up a bother box if you attempt to enter with outstanding parameter error(s). Give you a chance to confirm or cancel the enter, because you may want to deliberately enter something that's wrong now but will be fixed later

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cannot find an item size

2014-04-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/14/2014 05:50 PM, madengr wrote: Try taking out the throttle. That's only needed to limit the CPU when there is no hardware dictating the sample rate. Lou KD4HSO That's good advice in general. But in this case, it seems the very-latest UHD doesn't quite mesh properly with Gnu Radio,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/23/2014 09:07 AM, Antonio Petrolino wrote: Hi, I'm using a USRP N210 and I need a 10 MHz reference clock. From ettus.com I got: Ref Clock - 10 MHz Using an external 10 MHz reference clock, a square wave will offer the best phase noise performance, but a sinusoid is acceptable. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reference Clock power level for Ettus N210

2014-04-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/23/2014 09:31 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi, looking at the N200 schematics from files.ettus.com, I'd say: stick to the 0dBm, your clock signal has to pass a transformer and some safety/matching circuitry and still ought to be more accurate than the on-board VCTCXO; the clock multiplexer

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 02:45 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: Backing off to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS was successful in getting the PCIe Express interface to build, dkms the kernel module, start and uhd_find_device sees the USRP x300. Now for the fun part using it. Finally: To all those entertaining PCIe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 05:32 PM, Sylvain Munaut wrote: While the top side API is very stable so that applications hardly *ever* experience API changes that require on-going tedious maintenance, the same cannot be said of code that runs in the kernel. Quite the contrary. Linus and friends

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR330 configure doesn't find usb.h

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 06:56 PM, Michael Carter wrote: Hello all, I'm hoping someone can provide some insight to a build problem I'm seeing. I'm building 3.3.0 to use with an Ettus Research USRP1. I'm given to understand that I need to build 3.3.0 as that was the last release which is compatible with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR330 configure doesn't find usb.h

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
for USRP1 that came along for the ride with early Gnu Radio releases. Getting that code to build on a newer Linux distrib may be a challenge. On Apr 27, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 04/27/2014 06:56 PM, Michael Carter wrote: Hello all

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR330 configure doesn't find usb.h

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 10:31 PM, Michael Carter wrote: Hi Marcus. Thanks, yes that seems to be bearing itself out so far. I'm fairly certain that if I can get the code that came along for the ride installed, then I'll be set. So the issue is still why the makefiles don't detect usb.h and libusb even

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] configuration incomplete , errors occur !

2014-05-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/03/2014 12:21 AM, Sara Chérif wrote: I am installing GNU radio using this command wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio chmod a+x ./build-gnuradio ./build-gnuradio --verbose But I found at the end of the installation an error (after 2 hours from beginning of installation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_find_devices cannot find my B210

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2014 01:52 PM, Greg Hulands wrote: Hi, I received my B210 this morning and when I run uhd_find_devices, it say it can't find any devices. $ uhd_find_devices linux; GNU C++ version 4.8.1; Boost_105300; UHD_003.005.003-0-unknown No UHD Devices Found lsusb shows the device, but the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] uhd_find_devices cannot find my B210

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2014 02:13 PM, Greg Hulands wrote: I added the Ettus repo and installed 003.007.001 and yet when I run the uhd_find_devices command it shows the 003.005.003 version. Do you recommend building from source? Thanks, Greg I recommend erasing your installed-from-standard-repos instances

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting this today from recent GR master build:

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/mleech/top_block.py, line 74, in module tb = top_block() File /home/mleech/top_block.py, line 39, in __init__ channels=range(1), File /usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gnuradio/uhd/__init__.py, line 122, in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal drought

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2014 07:52 PM, Greg Hulands wrote: Hi, I built all the code today using the build-gnuradio script and when I create a simple GRC flow graph going from the USRP source to the waterfall plot, I get no data coming in. I then built gqrx and ran it and it too doesn’t get any data in from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal drought

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
It just looks like noise. Well, noise isn't the same as no signal at all. Do you *expect* there to a signal at 107.7MHz? Do you have an antenna plugged in to the correct port on the device? On May 5, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Marcus D. Leechmle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 05/05/2014 07:52 PM,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal drought

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I changed antenna’s and I see a signal now in uhd_fft. I just noticed that when in GRC and I run the flow graph, i don’t see the RX light come on the board like when running uhd_fft. I have put the grc file up here http://test.utr-software.com/sdr/test.grc Thanks, Greg The default antenna

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal drought

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I changed to RX2 and still not activating the receiver on the board. Try changing the Wire Format to complex-int16 On May 5, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I changed antenna’s and I see a signal now in uhd_fft. I just noticed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Signal drought

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2014 09:11 PM, Greg Hulands wrote: Still no go. :-( I have also added device adde = name,serial=F4,type=b200,uhd and Mb0: Subdev Spec = A:A A:B both still having no effect. Thanks, Greg Just use a subdev spec of A:A Are you getting any error messages when you run the graph?

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-uhd GR3.7.X on Fedora 14

2014-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Anyone else out there successfully using gr-uhd blocks successfully on a Fedora 14 system? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-users] USRP B210 error

2014-05-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/10/2014 05:22 AM, asad umer via USRP-users wrote: Hi all, I am using B21o and simply RXing a signal and observing it in FFT sink block...The parameters set for UHD USRP source block are as shown in the screenshot...When i execute the flow graph i get the following error:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Time delaying a signal

2014-05-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/12/2014 02:02 PM, asad umer wrote: I want to introduce a time delay in a signal received through USRP...I have used the 'Delay' block but it is not showing any delay...what is the appropriate block to use?? Can i delay the phase instead? Are time and phase delay equal?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Time delaying a signal

2014-05-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/12/2014 02:14 PM, asad umer wrote: so there is no exclusive block for this purpose in GRC?? A delay in samples is a delay in time: 1 sample == 1/sample-rate seconds of delay -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Time delaying a signal

2014-05-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/12/2014 02:19 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: Well, not that I'm aware of. However, FFT, multiplication with a signal source, IFFT is not really hard to do, and it's what a time shift mathematically is. Greetings, Marcus Also, a phase-shift is just a complex multiply by:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Merge multiple complex streams

2014-05-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/13/2014 03:02 PM, Imre wrote: (Something went wrong with my mails, hopefully doing it right now, sorry Mike, replied directly to you) Using Mike's example and some fiddling around: http://www.livep2000.nl/code/grc/multichannel_input.grc Tuning on a FM channel shows the mentioned mess,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] B200 clock calibration

2014-05-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/14/2014 11:44 AM, Tom Tsou wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Martin Braunmartin.br...@ettus.com wrote: On 14.05.2014 12:12, Robert Light wrote: UHD Warning: The hardware does not support the requested RX sample rate: Target sample rate: 0.270833 MSps Actual sample

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] B200 clock calibration

2014-05-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/14/2014 01:12 PM, Robert Light wrote: 2 kHz offset is within tolerance for 1900 MHz. Locking to a stable 10 MHz reference, generally an OCXO or GPSDO, is the recommended approach. I applied external 10MHz reference, the best I had at hand. Now kalibrate says I have about 200Hz offset at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] aUaU FM receiver

2014-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2014 10:59 AM, Pablo Fernández Alonso wrote: Hi, I built a FM receiver working with a LiveUSB and a USRPB100 device. It worked fine, but when I installed Ubuntu and GNURadio in a virtual machine, the audio is distorted. The console types 'aU' letters. But I generate a wav file and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MSF/DCF/RBU Time Station Receiver Implementation

2014-05-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/16/2014 01:29 PM, Iain Young, G7III wrote: I'm not actually sure what advantages if any the Goertzel has over a narrow-band FIR, although there is a post in the archive from Marcus suggesting 15% CPU. With the advances in VOLK, it would be useful to try the benchmarks again to see which

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] receive sensitivity of B200

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/18/2014 05:49 PM, Robert Light wrote: Hi, I use B200 with OpenBTS at 900MHz. I get very low range (about 10m only) and I identified that this is due to receive channel in B200. Changing rxgain between 0 and 70dB makes vey little difference. Does anyone know how the receive sensitivity

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] using uhd_fft with USRP N210

2014-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/20/2014 12:07 AM, tides anugraha wrote: Hi, I,m trying to run uhd_fft with USRP N210, my machine run Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. I've already install UHD, gnuradio, OpenBTS in my machine works fine. But when i try to run uhd_fft which is in /var/opt/gnuradio-3.7.0/gr-uhd/apps directory,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] using uhd_fft with USRP N210

2014-05-19 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/20/2014 12:42 AM, tides anugraha wrote: Any suggestions or reference maybe? where should i install the install permanent libraries and executables? Thanks Well, /usr/local is the most usual place for Ubuntu. Sometimes under /opt. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Marcus D. Leech

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to set a master clock rate on USRP B200

2014-05-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/23/2014 12:23 PM, raf raf wrote: Hello All Gnu Radio user, To use a 2 TX, I want to change a clock rate to an accepted one, under 30.72 MHz. I use the API with uhd_usrp_probe and it works only for this command. Can you give me the idea or python code to use this argument parameter with

[Discuss-gnuradio] Window-close not killing everything

2014-05-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a user of simple_ra that has an issue with pieces of it still running after they use the window close button. In particular, there's an XMLRPC server thread that gets left behind. On my own, Fedora 14, system here, it's not a problem. Window close kills everything. On his Ubuntu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some guidance on working through Core concepts of GNU Radio

2014-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/25/2014 09:39 PM, Shane MacPhillamy wrote: I’m working through http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/TutorialsCoreConcepts I’ve created the flow graph: I’m unsure on how to address the problem reported on Complex to Mag^2 as below, could you offer some pointers please?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to set a master clock rate on USRP B200

2014-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/25/2014 11:39 PM, jason sam wrote: device args parameter is not in the UHD USRP source/sink block?There is only 'Device addr' Sorry, I meant Device Addr On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com mailto:mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 05/23/2014 12:23 PM

[Discuss-gnuradio] Muthaspewka!

2014-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
git clone --progress http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git Cloning into gnuradio... error: Unable to get pack file http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git/objects/pack/pack-f226f3ea8e0b1778c849c7ac2c27532d22f0fefd.pack transfer closed with 88647 bytes remaining to read error: Unable to find

[Discuss-gnuradio] Git cloned, errors in Portaudio during cmake

2014-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/26/2014 07:07 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On 05/26/2014 03:57 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: transfer closed with 88647 bytes remaining to read error: Unable to find 404ce04347b132e963564099f18345c19e2685c6 under http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git Cannot obtain needed blob

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Git cloned, errors in Portaudio during cmake

2014-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/26/2014 08:40 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: Check if portaudio19-dev installed. root@sdrbox:~# dpkg -l|grep portaudio ii libportaudio2:amd64 19+svn20140130-1 amd64Portable audio I/O - shared library ii libportaudiocpp0:amd64 19+svn20140130-1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Git cloned, errors in Portaudio during cmake

2014-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/26/2014 09:56 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: On 27/05/14 02:01, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/26/2014 08:40 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: Check if portaudio19-dev installed. root@sdrbox:~# dpkg -l|grep portaudio ii libportaudio2:amd64 19+svn20140130-1 amd64Portable audio I/O - shared library ii

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Git cloned, errors in Portaudio during cmake

2014-05-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/26/2014 10:24 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: On 27/05/14 02:01, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/26/2014 08:40 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: Check if portaudio19-dev installed. root@sdrbox:~# dpkg -l|grep portaudio ii libportaudio2:amd64 19+svn20140130-1 amd64Portable audio I/O - shared library ii

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] importing blocks to GRC

2014-05-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/28/2014 09:11 PM, Pengyu Zhang wrote: When I do echo $PYTHONPATH, nothing shows up. How is $PYTHONPATH set? I thought it should be configured automatically by cmake and make. Correct? On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Alfredo Muniz mun...@seas.upenn.edu mailto:mun...@seas.upenn.edu

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

2014-06-04 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/04/2014 05:16 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

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help with wx-gui, window size error

2014-06-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/06/2014 11:33 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Thilina Mallawa Arachchi thilina.arach...@gmail.com mailto:thilina.arach...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am having problems running a WX GUI FFT Sink, I am getting the following runtime error: Traceback

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GPSDO detection in B200

2014-06-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/06/2014 02:19 PM, Robert Light wrote: Hi, How is the detection of GPSDO done in B200 ? I see that UHD tries to detect GPSDO every time I use B200 but what is it looking for? How to force switching between internal, external and GPSDO clock ? I have GPSDO installed but sometimes I want to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GPSDO detection in B200

2014-06-06 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/06/2014 02:51 PM, Robert Light wrote: Is 1PPS used if I have GPSDO installed or does the B200 assume that 10MHz is already good enough? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] getting noise for FM receiver with usrp e110 ?

2014-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/12/2014 06:14 AM, Wafa Elhajhmida wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to implement FM receiver on usrp e110. The daugtherboard used is SBX Board Rev 5.1. As a result, I got only noise, I wasn't able to hear the local station at 103.5 Mhz. And I got this error: *UHD Warning:* *The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wxPython 3.0 breaks wxGUI

2014-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/12/2014 10:43 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: In one sense, this is a low priority because we are moving away from using the wx sinks in favor of the qt sinks. Still, for now, most of our examples are base on wx, so we will need this to work for a little bit longer. Tom Tom, it's not just

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issues with syncing two USRPs!

2014-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/14/2014 05:48 PM, eldarymli wrote: Hi Martin, This is a follow up on my earlier email. I am still having issues with getting two N200's to work together. First, please find a short answer to your questions. Do you know what kind of Ethernet controller is on your ports? Are they

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

2014-06-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/16/2014 04:23 PM, madengr wrote: Orin, Just curious what USB 3.0 chipset and OS you are using, and if you can go over 50 Msps? I am able to get 45 Msps UHD Benchmark with the VLI VL80x, but not over that. Thanks, Lou KD4HSO Also, I should point out that getting some high sample-rate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio / Software Radio conceptual question

2014-06-16 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/16/2014 10:24 PM, Michael Rahaim wrote: Hi all, I have a relatively high level question regarding gnuradio and software radio in general. Is it a fair generalization to say that gnuradio is operating at the application layer and is essentially emulating a physical layer implementation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sample time alignment in GRC

2014-06-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/17/2014 09:58 AM, Lapointe, Benjamin - 1008 - MITLL wrote: Hi All, I am still having trouble time aligning sample streams from two USRP X310 devices. In GRC I noticed a random time offset from run to run in the two data streams using a WX GUI Scope Sink. Looking at recorded data in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Phase measurement with Ettus Research N210

2014-06-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/17/2014 04:56 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: I'll try to see if this makes a difference. The minimum sampling rate I can program is ~193 kHz (it is a strange fraction that I cannot check right now). Minimum sample rate = 100e6/512 The USRP devices do strictly-integer decimation in the

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