Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!

2012-02-19 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:19:21PM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > So, on a related topic, how do commercial FM-MPX receivers maintain > proper balance between > L-R and L+R -- do they just have a gain control that they tweak at > the factory and glue in place? > > If the gain balance is off,

[Discuss-gnuradio] [alanhen...@aim.com: [Scan-DC] Warning of increased GSM + TETRA attacks]

2012-02-14 Thread David I. Emery
GoMo News February 13, 2012 Monday 12:43 PM EST Warning of increased GSM + TETRA attacks LENGTH: 471 words Rating: We're back to Squidgygate and police radio scanners again Here's a bit of an ominous warning. Much worse than mere voicemail hacking. Greg Jones, a director of wireless securit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [noaaport] NOAAPORT DVB-S2 VCM Question

2011-06-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:40:54PM +0300, Patrik Tast wrote: > Hi All, > > As you all know, VCM is short for Variable Coded Modulation. > > As I have read on your forum, the new DVBS-2 NOAAPORT transmission is > variable. > So far I have noted that users use 8PSK demodulation and FEC?. > FEC?,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] udp source - endianness anomaly?

2009-10-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:16:11AM +1300, Richard Clarke wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with the interpretation of > shorts by the GNU Radio udp source function, when the shorts are > transmitted from a big endian based platform? In my situation I am > transmitt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New external clock board for USRP

2009-09-24 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:00:34AM +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > Power will be taken from USRP 6V, clock output will be SMA to > connect to USRP directly. Frequency control will be accessible > over RS-232 (aka COM-port) with simple text-based protocol. We're > going to use ATMega for this. Id

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier Phase Recovery

2009-04-04 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:16:42PM +0500, Sajjad Sarwar wrote: > I am doing my UG project on "optimized packet radio" in SDR. Presently, I am > using costas loop block but i think it's recovering only the frequency of > local oscillator but not the phase. Please correct me if i am wrong. Now the >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] implement d8psk on benchmark_tx.py

2009-02-16 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:30:26PM -0800, Firas Abbas wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, 2/17/09, George Nychis wrote: > > > Hello, Tianning/Bill/Daniel! > > > > The performance of 8PSK matches pretty similarly to 16-QAM. > > So, 8PSK is usually never used in a real system as you get > > better spectr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-21 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 04:23:00PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: > Jeff Brower wrote: > >All the standardized codecs that I know of, both ones with IP rights > >requirements and free ones, provide a reference design, typically > >fixed-point C code plus test vectors. I wonder why DVSI has not done

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-19 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:38:13PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: > Jeff Brower wrote: > >If you're looking at low bitrate codecs for GNU radio, why use a > >hardware (dongle)dependent solution? You might look at MELPe, which > >provides 600, 1200, and 2400 bps,and can be implemented as a software >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency Offsets in RFX 2400

2008-01-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:46:46AM -0800, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > David I. Emery wrote: > > > A hack I have thought about adding to the USRP FPGA code (but not > > implemented yet) would allow collection of the count in a > > continuously rolling 64 MHz counter driv

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Frequency Offsets in RFX 2400

2008-01-10 Thread David I. Emery
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:46:09AM -0600, LRK wrote: > > While the 'right' fix would be to supply a stable frequency source to > the USRP, it would be difficult. Not impossibly difficult... it would, however, have been nice to have a VCXO option for the USRP-1 that would have allowed exte

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Soft-DVB working flawlessly

2007-11-26 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:18:53AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Quoting John Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >John Gilmore schrieb: > >>I can already think of one use that others can make of your > >>transmitter. EFF and I are interested in measuring the DRM responses > > I am interested in a dvb

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions on US digital cable ...

2007-08-15 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Vijay Ramasami wrote: > Thanks for the information David. I will look up ITU-J.83B ... > > Do you happen to have any captured QAM cable data (or any website that > lists the data) ? I wanted to see if I can put together a software > demod for digital cable

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions on US digital cable ...

2007-08-13 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Vijay Ramasami wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Does the US digital cable system follow the DVB-C standard (or one > of its annexes) ? Is there any information (website) on the typical > symbol rates, bandwidths (I am guessing approx

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Freq center auto adjust

2007-03-12 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:45:14AM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > This is typically call Automatic Frequency Control and shortened to AFC. > > Accomplishing AFC is modulation specific; in GNU Radio one typically > builds a flow graph that incorporates AFC by using an appropriate > phase-locked

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No BPSK modulator?

2007-02-27 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:01:58PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: > > >(which makes me > >curious, does anyone use non-differential 8PSK?). > > > > Yes, satellites often do. I might add that non differential PSK/QPSK has a theoretical noise advantage if some mechanism exists to figure out th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS / TMC / DAB / DVB-S/T ?

2006-10-14 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: > David I. Emery wrote: > > > > This implies that the USRP with a 6 to 8 mhz bandwidth might be > >able to successfully demodulate the SCPC DVB-S QPSK video transmissions > >at symbol rates like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS / TMC / DAB / DVB-S/T ?

2006-10-14 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:49:03AM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: > The USRP could receive the raw signals for DVB-T in the 6 and 7 MHz wide > channel format. The 8 MHz wide version could be somewhat degraded > because of filter rolloff at the edges of the passband of the digital > downconverter in th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:05:56AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > >>There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between > >>the main pulse > >>and the sub-pulse. The other 1350Mhz radar is much further away from > >>me, but > >>perhaps the "sub pulses" I'm seeing are coming from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-12 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:01:51AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > David I. Emery wrote: > > > > The transponders are 1090/1030 mhz and not 1350. 1350 is just > >radar. > > > There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between > the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: > *giggle* > > Marcus ... that's an aircraft transponder. Except for some vintage > 1930's aircraft that don't have an electrical system - every plane / > helicopter has one. Hit Google or Yahoo! for "Mode-C" and "Mode-S" > transpond

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MovieBeam

2006-06-02 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:30:36AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > Just read about MovieBeam on Slashdot. They mention that it > "piggybacks" on a PBS signal. I assume they mean a digital TV channel, > but they have a very small antenna. While I have no specific inside information at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-07 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:03:33PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > Good question. I've wanted to revisit it myself too. > As I recall it was to reduce the spurs in the DDC output. > If you get a chance, please see if you can find relevant papers. > I suggest searching for "DDS spurs", or something li

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] frequency tuning word quantization

2006-03-06 Thread David I. Emery
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:53:44PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > In the FPGA, the phase word (not the accumulator) is approximately > 15-bits wide. This gives worst case phase-truncation spurs of -90 dBc. > This looks small enough that we can safely ignore it. Therefore, > I suggest we stop tru

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBS Dish Feeds

2005-12-06 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:34:34PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: > > DBS small satellite dish systems often have LNB feedhorns capable of > multiple polarizations and/or multiple bands. This is often controlled > by changing the voltage which powers the device. However, some have a > more complex con

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBSRX Noise Figure

2005-11-29 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:12:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:33, Matt Ettus wrote: > > A useful application would be to control a calibrated noise source and > > measure the power in a given bandwidth with it on and off. This is how > > a noise figure meter works. > >