Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Adrian Musceac
Toko filters are a few dollars retail. On August 9, 2020 11:14:34 PM UTC, Steve wrote: >I may have to download Elsie then and grab a pencil to make some >coils... >:-) > >http://www.tonnesoftware.com/elsie.html > > > >On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM Adrian Musceac >wrote: > >> The Pluto receiver

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Steve
I may have to download Elsie then and grab a pencil to make some coils... :-) http://www.tonnesoftware.com/elsie.html On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM Adrian Musceac wrote: > The Pluto receiver is useless without proper filters as it will receive > everything at the same time. With filters, it

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Adrian Musceac
The Pluto receiver is useless without proper filters as it will receive everything at the same time. With filters, it works fine, I managed more than 800 km on FT8 with it last winter, I talked a little bit about it at SDRA. Adrian On August 9, 2020 9:59:53 PM UTC, Steve wrote: >When the

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Steve
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:51 PM David Rowe wrote: > > I wonder if that was a configuration thing Steve, at max analog gain the > noise figure of the Pluto (AD9363) is specified at just 2.5dB - better > than many other SDRs and hardware-defined Ham radios. > > Gain is pretty cheap in SDRs, once

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread David Rowe
> When the Pluto came out, I had to have one. Playing with it kind of > left me saying "meh" because it didn't seem to have much RX gain. I > needed a beam to focus on the transmitter. I wonder if that was a configuration thing Steve, at max analog gain the noise figure of the Pluto (AD9363) is

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Steve
When the Pluto came out, I had to have one. Playing with it kind of left me saying "meh" because it didn't seem to have much RX gain. I needed a beam to focus on the transmitter. I then tried the LimeSDR-Mini but that thing only lasted about a year and then failed. Expensive junk. Comparably, the

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread David Rowe
With the addition of a LPF I believe it meets the spectral purity requirements of the Amateur LCD on 2M: http://www.rowetel.com/?p=7207 and on HF: http://www.rowetel.com/?p=6317 - David On 10/8/20 6:50 am, glen english wrote: > except that the Pi transmitter has unacceptable spectral

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread glen english
except that the Pi transmitter has unacceptable spectral purity. On 9/08/2020 7:18 pm, Adrian Musceac wrote: Thanks David for the news. One question: how high can the Pi transmitter go in frequency? Our 70 cm band is pretty crowded, but the 23 cm band and 2305-2400 MHz bands are underutilized

Re: [Freetel-codec2] building and testing freedv-gui with wxWidgets 3.1

2020-08-09 Thread Al Beard
Hi David and developers, Thanks David for the instructions below. When one does new build, re-running "build_linux.sh" can the script called to build WxWidgets, determine it is built already and not download and compile it again? In file cmake/BuildWxWidgets.cmake line 27 add something like:

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread David Rowe
Hi Adrian, The RpiTx doc suggest 1.5GHz, but I haven't tried it. Suspect it gets "noisier" as freq increases, however as the power is so low it may still meet spurious requirements. Cheers, David On 9/8/20 6:48 pm, Adrian Musceac wrote: > Thanks David for the news. > One question: how high can

Re: [Freetel-codec2] building and testing freedv-gui with wxWidgets 3.1

2020-08-09 Thread David Rowe
I used: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCODEC2_BUILD_DIR=~/codec2/build_linux -DLPCNET_BUILD_DIR=~/LPCNet/build_linux -DBOOTSTRAP_WXWIDGETS=1 .. On 9/8/20 6:01 pm, Al Beard wrote: > Hi David, > > Q/ How did you test, on Linux, wxWidgets 3.1 ? > > System here: Odroid N2 kernel 5.6.18-meson64

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Adrian Musceac
Thanks David for the news. One question: how high can the Pi transmitter go in frequency? Our 70 cm band is pretty crowded, but the 23 cm band and 2305-2400 MHz bands are underutilized and we want to make use of them. The Pi/RTL system is a good candidate because of price. Adrian On August 9,

Re: [Freetel-codec2] building and testing freedv-gui with wxWidgets 3.1

2020-08-09 Thread Al Beard
Hi David, Q/ How did you test, on Linux, wxWidgets 3.1 ? System here: Odroid N2 kernel 5.6.18-meson64 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)" With the OS supplied wxWidgets 3.0 the FreeDV GUI compiles and runs fine. With a slight change to

Re: [Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread David Rowe
Hi Adrian, You data mode (and HNAP) sound pretty cool. Thanks, I enjoyed the SDRA HNAP talk by Lukas, that's quite a sophisticated system. -/- A couple of recent developments in this area by Bill, VK5DSP, and myself: 1/ We have ported the 4FSK/LLR/LDPC code work to C in this PR

[Freetel-codec2] FreeDV data mode

2020-08-09 Thread Adrian Musceac
Hi David, I've watched with interest your recent foray into FreeDV data transmission. There's a new and interesting project called HNAP (https://hnap.de ) which has the same goals (long distance IP links). The project is well described in this year's SDRA talk by Lukas O. Inspired by both your