Hi Marcus,

   Thanks.   That explains it.   Will try 5 MHz with our N200.

Cheers,
Dan

On Jun 30, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Marcus Müller wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> that README refers to things of the past (when you specified a decimation 
> rather than the sampling rate you want), and "USRP" refered to what we 
> nowadays call the USRP1.
> 
> In the version of the usrp_rx_hrpt.grc, from which the .py gets generated, 
> the USRP source is just configured to 4MS/s.
> 
> The question is whether 4MS/s is really the optimum rate; I haven't studied 
> the HRPT signal enough to answer this. In principle, for the 100MHz devices 
> (N210/N200), 4MS/s is a suboptimal rate, since the decimation (25) is odd, 
> and I'd try with something less strange, like 5MS/s.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcus
> 
> On 06/30/2015 10:49 PM, Daniel Marlow wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>    In the gnuradio/gr-noaa/README file under usrp_rx_hrpt.py, there is a 
>> comment that 
>> reads as follows:
>> 
>> "The present HRPT demodulator is only tested at decimation 16.    The only 
>> other
>> valid decimation rates are 24 and 32, which may work, but with more bit 
>> errors.  No
>> other decimation rates will work."
>> 
>>     My (perhaps naive) question is whether the important parameter is the 
>> decimation 
>> rate, or the sampling rate.   For example, with 64 MHz USRP, a decimation of 
>> 16 would 
>> give 4 MHz sampling, whereas with a higher rate USRP, the same decimation 
>> would 
>> yield a higher sampling rate.   
>> 
>>     I would appreciate it if someone could clarify this point for me.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Dan Marlow
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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