Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WBX daughterboard decimation

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 01:14 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > Hello: > > I meant to ask this in my previous posting, but I forgot, so I'm making > another post. > > I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under openSUSE 11.2, and I have a USRP2 board > with a WBX daughterboard. I'm still somewhat new to GNU Radio, so plea

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WBX daughterboard frequencies

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 01:09 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > Hello: > > I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under openSUSE 11.2, and I have a USRP2 board > with a WBX daughterboard. I'm still somewhat new to GNU Radio, so please bear > with me. > > What is the minimum and maximum frequency at which I can transmit and

[Discuss-gnuradio] WBX daughterboard decimation

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Hello: I meant to ask this in my previous posting, but I forgot, so I'm making another post. I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under openSUSE 11.2, and I have a USRP2 board with a WBX daughterboard. I'm still somewhat new to GNU Radio, so please bear with me. Isn't it necessary that the decimation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/04/2010 01:02 AM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > Marcus: > > Thank you for your reply. Let me ask you another question to make sure I'm > understanding this correctly. Remember, I have a USRP2 board with a WBX > daughterboard. If I construct a flow graph where a signal source block > generates a 7

[Discuss-gnuradio] WBX daughterboard frequencies

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Hello: I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under openSUSE 11.2, and I have a USRP2 board with a WBX daughterboard. I'm still somewhat new to GNU Radio, so please bear with me. What is the minimum and maximum frequency at which I can transmit and receive? I thought it was between 50 MHz and 2.2 GHz, b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Marcus: Thank you for your reply. Let me ask you another question to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. Remember, I have a USRP2 board with a WBX daughterboard. If I construct a flow graph where a signal source block generates a 7 khz cosine at a sample rate of 200 khz (100e6/500), and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gcc 4.5 and GNU Radio 3.3.0

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Gregor: Thanks for your reply. Remember, however, that this openSUSE 11.3 machine I have does not have internet access; it's in a closed-room off the network. So I can't run "zypper search gcc", and things like that. Is there a way I can separately download a *.tar.gz for gcc 4.4.4 using my oth

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: ATSC decoding - Now Working!

2010-11-03 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Nick and others, I have decoded a capture of ATSC that Nick provided (many thanks). Here are some numbers for double-checking: 1) the original file was 730MB which for 8 complex Msps corresponds to ~ 11 secs of transmission 2) at the output of the equalizer (stream 0) there are 491MB of data pro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/03/2010 11:11 PM, Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH) wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > great, now I know what was wrong. I didn't expect my dummy load to be so > safe. It was a real signal lock :-) > > For all the others, here's a short experiment report: > > Here are the parameters: > > * Sample ra

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH)
Hi Marcus, great, now I know what was wrong. I didn't expect my dummy load to be so safe. It was a real signal lock :-) For all the others, here's a short experiment report: Here are the parameters: * Sample rate 200k * Signal source at 1 KHz, amplitude at a minimum of 0.001 - to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/03/2010 06:57 PM, Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH) wrote: > I kindof have a similar problem. Guess I havent understood this yet. > > I want to generate a very basic signal at 10.00 MHz. A little up or > down is not relevant, but I want to hear a signal at all. I have a very > sensitive HF

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH)
I kindof have a similar problem. Guess I havent understood this yet. I want to generate a very basic signal at 10.00 MHz. A little up or down is not relevant, but I want to hear a signal at all. I have a very sensitive HF receiver right next to my dummy load, so that should work with a very f

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/03/2010 05:27 PM, Dan Harasty wrote: > Marcus wrote: >> It's usual in telecom systems for there to be some kind of AFC on the >> receive side to compensate for transmit-side frequency error. > Can't this problem also be solved with a transmit-side correction? > > If the "error" in this partic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread alexander levedahl
I am having difficulty transmitting anything at all. When I run the below script on one USRP2, and then run usrp2_fft.py on another computer with another USRP2 hooked up to it, that shows nothing. I have the appropriate daughterboards to transmit in that frequency range. When I run a transmit sc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build error when maki ng gnuradio 3.2 on Angstrom/OE

2010-11-03 Thread Zhen
Thanks. Yes, it looks like out of memory from dmesg. There are lots of error messages like --- [ 126.380096] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 126.386657] mmcblk0p2: rw=0, want=7782440, limit=7738167 [ 126.392578] attempt to access beyond end of devic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Dan Harasty
Marcus wrote: It's usual in telecom systems for there to be some kind of AFC on the receive side to compensate for transmit-side frequency error. Can't this problem also be solved with a transmit-side correction? If the "error" in this particular USPR2 LO is about 900MHz - 899.99701MHz = 0.002

[Discuss-gnuradio] build error when making gnuradio 3.2 on Angstrom/OE

2010-11-03 Thread Zhen
Hi, All, Now I am trying to install GNU Radio 3.2 on Angstrom and Beagleboard, following Philip's instruction on http://www.opensdr.com/node/17 'Configure' succeed, but 'make' failed just at the beginning with the following errors. --

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/03/2010 04:00 PM, Steve Mcmahon wrote: > Hello: > > I am still somewhat new to GNU Radio. I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under > openSUSE 11.2, and I have two USRP2 boards, each with a WBX daughterboard. I > need some help understanding some fundamental things about GNU Radio and the > USRP2

[Discuss-gnuradio] questions about USRP2 sink block and upconversion

2010-11-03 Thread Steve Mcmahon
Hello: I am still somewhat new to GNU Radio. I am running GNU Radio 3.3.0 under openSUSE 11.2, and I have two USRP2 boards, each with a WBX daughterboard. I need some help understanding some fundamental things about GNU Radio and the USRP2 and upconversion. I am trying generate a tone at 900.0

[Discuss-gnuradio] Weird error in gnuradio block related to gr.file_source

2010-11-03 Thread John Andrews
Hi, I am confused with the error that I am having in my block. I have two files that I use for testing the gnuradio block that I am developing. The input (type gr_complex) to the block is a gr.file_source and I use 4092 input_items that I store in a buffer to work in the general_work function. In

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD: tx - sync via MIMO cable, rx - "We're marking it DONE"

2010-11-03 Thread Josh Blum
The mimo cable has not been addressed in UHD ATM. To receive from multiple usrps in a synchronized manner, you will need to feed each PPS and reference input appropriately according to the following docs: http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/usrp2.html#hardware-setup-notes In the flow gra

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD: tx - sync via MIMO cable, rx - "We're marking it DONE"

2010-11-03 Thread Veljko Pejovic
Hi, Setup: Two USRP2 + WBX boards, one PC with Ubuntu 10.04, the latest gnruadio/next and uhd from the github. The PC hosts two PCI express GigEthernet cards, which are connected to the two USRP2s. I'm using UHD to tx/tr with two boards simultaneously. I'm working with Multi USRP source and sink

[Discuss-gnuradio] Benchmark scripts sending erroneous packets

2010-11-03 Thread Daniel Ali
Hello all, I've got a GNURadio install on two laptops, both of which have version 3.3.0 on them. They are both Dell Latitudes E5500 with Ubuntu 9.10 x86 on them. I have two USRP2s with the correct firmware installed on the SD cards to operate the WBX daughter card (txrx_wbx_raw_eth_20100608.bin). I