Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-03-28 Thread jean-michel . friedt
As a quick followup to my previous post, I confirm that the R820T is well suited for GPS signal decoding. I was not expecting the huge frequency offset ( 100 kHz at 1.57 GHz) and was not searching far enough from the expected carrier frequency during the acquisition phase. However these results

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-03-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/28/2015 10:23 AM, jean-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr wrote: As a quick followup to my previous post, I confirm that the R820T is well suited for GPS signal decoding. I was not expecting the huge frequency offset ( 100 kHz at 1.57 GHz) and was not searching far enough from the expected

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-03-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/28/2015 10:56 AM, jmfriedt wrote: well I have been *extremely* lucky then because I have been running 48 hours of monitoring GPS signals by recording one second every 5 minutes (http://jmfriedt.sequanux.org/gps.avi, X axis is the PRN number and Y axis is the frequency offset) and have

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-03-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 03/28/2015 11:29 AM, jan-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr wrote: this is very confusing ... it works. I did upgrade yesterday from gnuradio 3.7.3 to 3.7.5, but surely enough both osmocom_fft -f 1575.420e6 -g 30 and a basic flowgraph from gnuradio-companion using a 2 MHz sampling rate, osmocom

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-03-28 Thread jean-michel . friedt
Your results are consistent with what I've heard about the R820T above 1500MHz or so. It starts to become deaf, and then as you move higher, the PLL won't lock at all. I loose 10 dB sensitivity from 1.50 GHz to 1.575 GHz ! At 1.5 GHz the R820T was more sensitive than the E4k, but now

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] R820T frequency tuning issue

2015-02-27 Thread jmfriedt
As briefly mentioned on the #gnuradio IRC mailing list, I am facing an issue with tuning a R820T channel [...] I have completed the following experiment: * a frequency synthesizer (Rohde