Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CMake/SWIG build problems

2012-08-17 Thread Felix Wunsch

Hi Rafael,

I am preparing a release for the beginning of next week. The release 
will contain my DRM30 transmitter with various, fully configured 
flowgraphs that hopefully can be used more or less as-is and especially 
without deep knowledge of DRM. It's already working, but before 
releasing my code I want to put together a Readme file explaining how to 
install/use my software and what the constraints are. When everything is 
ready to be made public, I will notify the list about it.


Currently I am implementing DRM+ support but I cannot say if it will 
make it into the first release. But as I mentioned before, this project 
doesn't end for me when GSoC ends. I already wrote to Michael Feilen and 
asked for a version of his DRM+ receiver software so that I can test my 
code.


We got the same consumer receiver (DR111) here at my institute, but it's 
a preproduction sample as far as I know and it's quite buggy. Especially 
bandwidths above 10 kHz (spectrum occupancy 4 and 5) do not work with 
that receiver and unicode support for text messages is very limited. 
However, DREAM decodes the signal and so I guess I'm not doing 
everything wrong =).


Best regards,
Felix



Hi Felix,
Do you have something in a ready-to-test state concerning the DRM
transmitter?
I got a new DRM receiver (DR111) which shows the MER and SNR of the
reception.

Best regards,
Rafael Diniz




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[Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in uhd_fft.py

2012-08-17 Thread Sanat Gulvadi
Greetings,

How are the effects of DC mitigated in GNU radio? For example, if I use the
uhd_fft.py to just scan the spectrum, I do not see any DC spike at the
centre frequency. When I looked at the code, it has :

r = self.u.set_center_freq(target_freq, 0)

So I assume, it does not use the advanced tuning feature of UHD. Is this
correct? How, in this case is there no DC spike seen at the centre
frequency?
I am trying to code a scanning system that goes through the whole frequency
band of my RFX2400 dboard and at each center frequency, I grab a packet
from the air and apply an FFT to check for possible interferers etc. But I
am ending up with a spike at every centre frequency iteration. I have used
the two stage advanced tuning to try and push the DC leakage out of my band
of interest but I see no difference. I still get that single spike. (I am
using the UHD library and not GNU Radio)

Best Regards,
Sanat
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in uhd_fft.py

2012-08-17 Thread Josh Blum


On 08/17/2012 05:09 AM, Sanat Gulvadi wrote:
 Greetings,
 
 How are the effects of DC mitigated in GNU radio? For example, if I use the
 uhd_fft.py to just scan the spectrum, I do not see any DC spike at the
 centre frequency. When I looked at the code, it has :
 
 r = self.u.set_center_freq(target_freq, 0)
 
 So I assume, it does not use the advanced tuning feature of UHD. Is this
 correct? How, in this case is there no DC spike seen at the centre
 frequency?
 I am trying to code a scanning system that goes through the whole frequency
 band of my RFX2400 dboard and at each center frequency, I grab a packet
 from the air and apply an FFT to check for possible interferers etc. But I
 am ending up with a spike at every centre frequency iteration. I have used
 the two stage advanced tuning to try and push the DC leakage out of my band
 of interest but I see no difference. I still get that single spike. (I am
 using the UHD library and not GNU Radio)
 

There is a DC removal in the USRP, but it needs some time to integrate.
Perhaps in the gnuradio case, you are looking at an FFT that has had
some time to integrate at the new frequency. But in your finite
acquisition case, there is no time.

-josh

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question on FFT

2012-08-17 Thread Josh Blum


On 08/17/2012 11:45 AM, Sam mite wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I wanted to work on FFT using gnuradio. I have a question. Why there is
 only one frequency shown in plot ? why negative frequency is not being
 displayed ? I have attached picture of GRC implementation and FFT plot as
 well.
 

So, the blue color means complex floats. The signal source is not
producing sin(t), its producing e^jwt

-josh

 Best Regards,
 Sam
 
 
 
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question on FFT

2012-08-17 Thread mleech
 

On 17 Aug 2012 14:45, Sam mite wrote: 

 Hi All,
 
 I wanted to
work on FFT using gnuradio. I have a question. Why there is only one
frequency shown in plot ? why negative frequency is not being displayed
? I have attached picture of GRC implementation and FFT plot as well. 


 Best Regards,
 Sam

Because there's no negative frequency component
in your sample stream. 

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[Discuss-gnuradio] Last day for early registration!

2012-08-17 Thread Tom Rondeau
Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that today is the last day to sign up for GRCon 2012
at the early registration rate. The rate will increase midnight EDT.

And remember, tell your friends!

Tom

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[Discuss-gnuradio] fine offset for XCVR2450

2012-08-17 Thread Apurv Bhartia
Hi Everyone,

Does the XCVR2450 (when acting as a transceiver) exhibit the same frequency
offset for both its RX and TX operations in OFDM? I know fine offset value
can change depending on various factors, and to alleviate that problem, I'm
using an external clock (without the GPS) connected to my N200.

When I use the XCVR only as a receiver, I can see that the fine offset now
is much more stable (as compared to when the external clock isn't used) for
several packets. However, when it acts as a transceiver, it seems to me
that the fine offset can fluctuate quite a bit between the RX and the TX
ends.

I don't know if it helps but I've also tuned the UHD using (
http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/general.html#tuning-notes).
I've used the same setting for both the rx_freq and tx_freq.

Thanks,
Apurv
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