[Discuss-gnuradio] Displaying phase and amplitude variation of filter / transformer?

2013-09-26 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Hi, Are there any grc flowgraphs out in the wild that visualize the phase and amplitude variation of a given system like some LC filter or transformer, when you tweak with it? My idea is to output a sinoidal signal of maybe some hundred kHz, feed it through the system of interest, and then watch

[Discuss-gnuradio] Runtime Error

2013-09-26 Thread Sohaib Khan
I am using DVB-T dongle RTLSDR2832U with gnu radio, i have installed all the required files, but when i compile my flowgraph I get an error. Runtime Error:Failed to open rtlsdr device. What is the problem and its solution?? Sohaib bin Altaf pakistan

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Runtime Error

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus Müller
Hello Sohaib, from http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr: If the device can't be opened, make sure you have the appropriate rights to access the device (install udev-rules from the repository, or run it as root). The osmo project has for your conveniences generated a rule that assigns

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Passive radar using my hacked dual coherent channel rtl_sdr dongle

2013-09-26 Thread M Dammer
This is awesome. How did you analyze the data ? Is the software/source (both grc setup and data analysis) available ? Mark On 25/09/13 23:23, Juha Vierinen wrote: I hooked up my dual coherent channel rtl_sdr dongle into two of our passive radar antennas that we have here (log-periodic antennas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Enable QT multi threading in the qtgui template

2013-09-26 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Sylvain Munaut 246...@gmail.com wrote: I also tried creating the QWidget subclass separately, like it's done in the qtgui elements but I also have a problem on destruction because there is a tight link between the two (exchanging a lot of data ..) and they're

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Constellations in OOT projects

2013-09-26 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Michael Berman mrberma...@gmail.com wrote: Upon looking at the generated *_swig.py files, I am seeing more of the differences. For some reason my OOT module is not generating the python wrapper for the constellation_theta class, it is only creating the wrapper

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Juha Vierinen
Hi, I modified my clock sharing so that I only insert a signal in the Xtal_In pin of other dongle. This way I won't have two circuits driving the same crystal, as Ian pointed out. The pin next to the edge of the dongle turned out to be the Xtal_In pin (the input of the opamp on the slave dongle).

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Constellations in OOT projects

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Berman
Thank you for the advice, I have gotten this working now. It was a user error in that I was not including the gnuradio/digital/constellation.h file in the swig .i. Also to note for anybody in the future, I also had to link the libgnuradio-digital.so into the CMakeLists.txt file in the lib

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus Leech
Well, I certainly would be keen to hear your further reports on this. One thing to consider is that if you're going to build a fan-out buffer, you might as well build a 28.8MHz source using one of the easily-available 14.4Mhz TCXOs that are "out there", and design a doubler--this will give you a

[Discuss-gnuradio] 49MHz Rtl_sdr receiver

2013-09-26 Thread William Pretty Security
Hello list; I have been following a thread by Marcus and others about coherent receivers, etc. I have a question: Is it possible to change the clock frequency to receive a slightly lower frequency? I have some ~ 49.89MHz wireless mic's that I would like to reuse, and an SDR seems like a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Questions on rx_ofdm example in GR 3.7.1

2013-09-26 Thread Monahan-Mitchell, Tim
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:57:55PM -0700, Daniel Domínguez wrote: The solution I found was to set the Fixed Frame Length parameter to 1 on the OFDM Frame Equalizer block of the Header Stream. 1 is the correct setting. I'm currently adding a tx into the example so it runs as-is (like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 49MHz Rtl_sdr receiver

2013-09-26 Thread Ashworth Payne
The simplest solution might be to transvert using something like the ham-it-up. When not doing wireless mic duty, you'll also have a general coverage receiver to tinker with. Kindest regards, Ashworth Payne On Sep 26, 2013, at 1:44 PM, William Pretty Security bill.pre...@xplornet.com wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 49MHz Rtl_sdr receiver

2013-09-26 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:44 PM, William Pretty Security bill.pre...@xplornet.com wrote: Hello list; I have been following a thread by Marcus and others about coherent receivers, etc. I have a question: Is it possible to change the clock frequency to receive a slightly lower frequency? I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Questions on rx_ofdm example in GR 3.7.1

2013-09-26 Thread Monahan-Mitchell, Tim
The solution I found was to set the Fixed Frame Length parameter to 1 on the OFDM Frame Equalizer block of the Header Stream. 1 is the correct setting. With this fix, now I see a new error: INFO: Detected an invalid packet at item 0 INFO: Parser returned #f thread[thread-per-block[18]:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Heath Hunnicutt
Juha, Ordinarily, I would choose to feed a clock into xtal_in, this seems logical. However check out the Elonics patent: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week49/OG/html/1385-1/US08324978-20121204.html The main thing to note is that square-wave clock input should be fed to xtal_in for the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Heath Hunnicutt
Bah!!! The main thing to note is that the e4000 expects a clock input on XTAL_OUT. That's right, the patent says that out can be an in, for the e4000. Sorry I made a post in which I made a thought mistake and typed the opposite. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/26/2013 06:32 PM, Heath Hunnicutt wrote: Juha, Ordinarily, I would choose to feed a clock into xtal_in, this seems logical. However check out the Elonics patent: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week49/OG/html/1385-1/US08324978-20121204.html The main thing to note is that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread juha
I use R820T. It has nonzero IF and the noise is relatively flat. The clock looks sawtooth-like on the scope. Juha On 26.9.2013, at 18.32, Heath Hunnicutt heath.hunnic...@gmail.com wrote: Juha, Ordinarily, I would choose to feed a clock into xtal_in, this seems logical. However check out

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dual coherent channel rtl_sdr

2013-09-26 Thread Heath Hunnicutt
I wonder, since you are emulating the crystal output, if the R820T would ordinarily drive the crystal to rail-to-rail, square wave output. It might be worthwhile using a high impedence probe to see what the signal you are replacing looks like. I say this because the elonics patent suggests that

[Discuss-gnuradio] Noise/random sources

2013-09-26 Thread Marcus D. Leech
When I use multiple noise sources in a flow-graph, each with a different seed, are they actually independent, or do they just call random or lrand or something, and thus setting different seeds has no effect? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Passive radar using my hacked dual coherent channel rtl_sdr dongle

2013-09-26 Thread Juha Vierinen
Hi, I'm just using a simple script to dump data to disk. I then have another program that analyzes the files. It is not too complicated. The measurement equation is a convolution with the assumption that the target is stationary over ~20 ms and that the ground clutter is stationary over ~1

[Discuss-gnuradio] Noise/random sources

2013-09-26 Thread Jared Clements
Forgot to cc the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jared Clements jared.cleme...@gmail.com Date: Sep 26, 2013 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Noise/random sources To: Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com Calling them with a seed of zero or greater will give the same random

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Passive radar using my hacked dual coherent channel rtl_sdr dongle

2013-09-26 Thread Jared Clements
Since they're clocked together I would assume that your alignment would consist of interpolation on the primary FM signal, what do you do to remove it later? If your code is too messy to release can you share a block diagram? Thanks, Jared On Sep 26, 2013 7:21 PM, Juha Vierinen x...@mit.edu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Questions on rx_ofdm example in GR 3.7.1

2013-09-26 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:25:50PM +, Monahan-Mitchell, Tim wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:57:55PM -0700, Daniel Domínguez wrote: The solution I found was to set the Fixed Frame Length parameter to 1 on the OFDM Frame Equalizer block of the Header Stream. 1 is the correct