[Discuss-gnuradio] phasefrequency synchronization of two USRP1

2012-02-21 Thread Vincenzo Pellegrini
Hi everybody, just in case somebody has already been doing it. What is the best way (if any) to phasefrequency-synchronize two USRP1? No need to lock them to an external reference. Just need to have the same instantaneous reference clock on both. thanks and regards to all the list vince --

[Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to create issues on redmine after registration

2012-02-21 Thread Markus Rothe
Hello, I tried to report a build issue via redmine issues feature. Unfortunately I am unable to do so. I registered the account mrothe and tried to find the link to report issues with. After I wasn't able to find it, I asked on IRC and was told that it should be in the navigation bar. My

[Discuss-gnuradio] Building volk fails with 'i386 architecture of input file is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output'

2012-02-21 Thread Markus Rothe
Hello, I'm trying to build gnuradio (v3.5.1-103-ge4693dfb) by doing: $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure $ make This results in (from configure): The following architectures will be built: generic 32 64 3dnow abm popcount mmx sse sse2 orc sse3 ssse3 sse4_a sse4_1 sse4_2 avx

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Florian - Interesting observation about better reception when using larger bandwidths. I tried it out, and yes indeed they do seem better at 1 MS/s compared with 250 or 500 kS/s -- meaning that more packets are received correctly at the higher rate than the lower rates. I didn't try 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Hi Florian - Interesting observation about better reception when using larger bandwidths. I tried it out, and yes indeed they do seem better at 1 MS/s compared with 250 or 500 kS/s -- meaning that more packets are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to create issues on redmine after registration

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Markus Rothe mar...@mrothe.de wrote: Hello, I tried to report a build issue via redmine issues feature. Unfortunately I am unable to do so. I registered the account mrothe and tried to find the link to report issues with. After I wasn't able to find it, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers, too, have a larger bandwidth. The coarse frequency correction is only set to look at so large an offset based on a number of subcarriers (+/-5 or 10), so now with the same frequency

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers, too, have a larger bandwidth. The coarse frequency correction is only set to look at so large an offset based on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: Are you seeing the 1 MHz offset when you use the uhd_siggen.py? Or is it just with the OFDM transmitter? I do see it with uhd_siggen.py. Didn't know about that utility; cool! - MLD ___

[Discuss-gnuradio] RDS demodulation

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
I'm having trouble demodulating the RDS signal that comes along with a lot of broadcast FM signals these days. I know that there's gr-rds that has already done this, but I wanted to do my own just for personal education. I spent a lot of time yesterday playing with it, and I can't get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Message Queue Thread Safety

2012-02-21 Thread Ryan Pape
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Tom Rondeau t...@trondeau.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Ryan Pape ryan.p...@gmail.com wrote: I have an application with some nasty race conditions I am trying to pin-point. The application starts with a 256 channel filterbank. Approx 45

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using volk in Mac: test report

2012-02-21 Thread Nowlan, Sean
Hi Nick - Sorry, just did 'opkg list-installed | grep orc' and got: liborc-0.4-0 - 0.4.11-r0.9 liborc-test-0.4-0 - 0.4.11-r0.9 Is this the version you expect for e1xx-002? Thanks, Sean From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+sean.nowlan=gtri.gatech@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Schlembach
Are you seeing the 1 MHz offset when you use the uhd_siggen.py? Or is it just with the OFDM transmitter? What is this tool doing? Transmitting a sine and checking the offset. Sorry, for the moment I have no possibilitie to check that. It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building volk fails with 'i386 architecture of input file is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output'

2012-02-21 Thread Josh Blum
How to solve this issue? Build with cmake instead :-) http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/CMakeWork -josh ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS demodulation

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew Davis
exactly 19.0kHz/8? Are you feeding it the stereo pilot or generating your own? Have you tried looking at the signal with an FFT scope to see if there is anything there or if it looks distorted or something? On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I'm having trouble

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS demodulation

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
I'm not feeding it the stereo pilot. I just use a fractional resampler to resample the few kHz at 19.0kHz/8 --this gives 4 samples/symbol into the DBPSK block. The spectrum looks roughly correct--a double-humped structure either side of zero. On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:27:54 -0500, Andrew

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS demodulation

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew Davis
If I remember correctly, the original RDS feed the stereo pilot to the DBPSK block as it had the correct symbol phase. From this https://www.cgran.org/raw-attachment/wiki/RDS/rds.png it looks just like band passing the pilot and dividing to the correct rate. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:33 PM,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Schlembach
There is a coarse and a fine frequency offset correction. The fine correct makes sure that the subcarrier is centered in the bin; the coarse adjusts for an integer number of subcarriers off from the center frequency. By default, the OFDM receiver will correct for some number of subcarrier bins

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
Although using the same device to check on said carrier as is transmitting it leads to compounding error in one direction or t'other. Best to use another device (preferrably a lab spectrum analyser) to check the offset. -Marcus On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:30 -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote: On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Power line communications

2012-02-21 Thread George Nychis
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:32, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: If you ever do this again, I would love to see some of the channels over time. I ordered some basic PLC equipment,

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 Phase Lock Loop, AGC and capture effect

2012-02-21 Thread bjoernm
Hi everyone, First of all thanks a lot for any support! I am using the XCVR2450 Daughterboard together with the USRP1. My setup consists of two transmitting nodes and one receiving node, in which both transmitters send messages in overlapping time slots. I was wondering how I can access

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Florian Schlembach florian.schlemb...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: There is a coarse and a fine frequency offset correction. The fine correct makes sure that the subcarrier is centered in the bin; the coarse adjusts for an integer number of subcarriers off from the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 Phase Lock Loop, AGC and capture effect

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
Last time I looked at the XCVR2450 schematic, there was no AGC. Any AGC would be implemented in software in the end application, and the PLLs on the XCVR2450 are used to set the center frequency of the quadrature downconverter. The hardware doesn't know anything about whatever modulations

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Undefined symbol on starting grc

2012-02-21 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:52:33 -0800 Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: Scratch that, just reread your post. Is your gri_matfile.cc getting added to the swig library? I suspect so, but I'm not sure how to test it (is there a way to check?) Anyway, I changed the code a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Power line communications

2012-02-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:18, George Nychis gnyc...@gmail.com wrote: Wow... so let me make sure I get this straight.  That's just a passive reading of the RF spectrum on your wall socket... you are not introducing any form of transmission on the line?  The USRP N210 was simply just plugged

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Undefined symbol on starting grc

2012-02-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:45, John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote: After successful compilation, on running, I find that xxx/top_block.py contains the following:                self.gr_matfile_source_1 =                cannot find 'repeat': gr.matfile_source($file, $repeat)      

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Power line communications

2012-02-21 Thread Douglas Geiger
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: I was, however, able to load up my house wiring through the coupler with a few watts at 146MHz and successfully contact a local ham radio repeater :-) Johnathan Ah - that sounds like one of them fancy

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Power line communications

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
Yup. When you think about it, I`m surprised the signals levels weren`t *higher*. Doug: one of the benefits about living on my own 37-acre spread that I miss is the ability to erect arbitrarily large and ugly antennas subject only to: o budget o wifely approval On Tue, 21 Feb 2012

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, I'm having some fun and games with gnuradio, a USRP1, and trying to transmit and receive at the same time, using gnuradio-companion. A Simple [UHD SOURCE] [UHD SINK] works perfectly, but when I start to try to do other things, I get a Segmentation Fault from somewhere. Even

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Foster
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Iain Young, G7III g7...@g7iii.net wrote: Hi Folks, I'm having some fun and games with gnuradio, a USRP1, and trying to transmit and receive at the same time, using gnuradio-companion. A Simple [UHD SOURCE] [UHD SINK] works perfectly, but when I start

[Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread George Nychis
Okay! So apparently there is some interest in power line communication for GSoC. But, what we would want to do is already have a safe way of connecting the USRP in to the wall socket for the student(s), and for the future of GNU Radio and USRP power line communications development. So, as a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM, George Nychis gnyc...@gmail.com wrote: Okay!  So apparently there is some interest in power line communication for GSoC.  But, what we would want to do is already have a safe way of connecting the USRP in to the wall socket for the student(s), and for the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR upgrade fail due to UHD

2012-02-21 Thread Marius Ciepluch
On 02/20/2012 06:31 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: Just to add to what Marcus said: Make sure to put /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, and then run $ sudo ldconfig: $ sudo echo /usr/local/lib /etc/ld.so.conf $ sudo ldconfig

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:30, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: They list two North American distributors, but I couldn't find the product on either distributor's website.  I'll give them a call and see what I can come up with. These guys sell it:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread Evan Merewether
Two issues: 1) Large resistors results in large attenuation. This circuit attenuates 120VAC to ~5V for the microcontroller. 2) You would need to un-ground all of the components (USRP + PC + you) and float everything to somewhere around 60V -Original Message- From:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Well, I'd put it that large resistors result in high impedance. You still have the full line voltage across the output of the two resistors, but any load resistance will form a voltage divider and drop the voltage very quickly. A simple next step would be adding an appropriate load resistor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Foster
Before anyone goes out there and barbecues themselves with a USRP, two things: 1) Use Ettus Research products for power-line or hazardous voltage applications at your own risk and after careful evaluation by competent engineer. 2) VAC, Gredmann, Hitachi, Magnetica, and other companies make

[Discuss-gnuradio] Detection and classification of signals

2012-02-21 Thread Ben Reynwar
Hi all, I'm working an a little project using gnuradio for receiving ham radio psk31 signals. I can decode a signal given a rough estimate of the carrier frequency but I'd really like to take a big swath of bandwidth as the input, detect the psk31 signals, and decode them all in parallel.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the pointers, You Wrote: I'm willing to bet that your segfault comes from our friend OpenGL: Try this before you start your application: export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Tried it, no improvement. Also try updating to latest master for Gnu Radio and UHD. If you're on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/21/2012 05:05 PM, Iain Young, G7III wrote: Hi Marcus, Thanks for the pointers, You Wrote: I'm willing to bet that your segfault comes from our friend OpenGL: Try this before you start your application: export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Tried it, no improvement. Also try updating to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detection and classification of signals

2012-02-21 Thread Ben Hilburn
Ben - Searching for Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC), on Google or IEEExplore, will give you fairly good start =) Related terms may be: Peak Detection, Robust Statistics, and even Primary User Detection (from the cognitive radio side of things). Cheers, Ben On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detection and classification of signals

2012-02-21 Thread Ben Hilburn
I'll note that none of my suggestions are actual techniques, but just keywords that such techniques fall under. If anyone is aware of actual techniques for Ben to use, that would probably be more directly helpful. Cheers, Ben On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Ben Hilburn b...@ettus.com wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Power line communications

2012-02-21 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Johnathan, The 125MHz interferece (AC) sounded familiar to me so I dug in the archives. The image below is received at 137MHz @ Los Angeles and they have the AC lines dangling in the air like a spiderweb. When it gets rainy we see those 125MHz in our images. The antenna was ~20m avay from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 21/02/12 23:04, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Sure can. Graph is as follows: [Null Source] --- [UHD SINK] [UHD Source] --- [Null Sink] Results are as follows: Options Block/Generate Options set to QT-GUI : Runs Fine Options Block/Generate Options set to WX-GUI : SEGV Options Block/Generate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/21/2012 06:18 PM, Iain Young, G7III wrote: They was within the same GRC File, although not linked (IE separate RX and TX chains) Yup, the precipitating characteristic appears to be that both TX and RX facilities are in use on the same USRP1. I was able to reproduce here with a trivial

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using volk in Mac: test report

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Foster
Tom, Sean, There's a couple of things here. First, the Orc volk_32fc_s32f_magnitude_16i_a function is rounding differently than the generic versions on E100 for some reason. Not fatal, totally usable, but it makes the QA code fail. Second, the volk_32fc_x2_multiply_32fc_a looks like it's working

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using volk in Mac: test report

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Nick Foster n...@ettus.com wrote: Tom, Sean, There's a couple of things here. First, the Orc volk_32fc_s32f_magnitude_16i_a function is rounding differently than the generic versions on E100 for some reason. Not fatal, totally usable, but it makes the QA

[Discuss-gnuradio] LRIT USRP2

2012-02-21 Thread Patrik Tast
FYI, By Marin Blaho and Rob Alblas http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/lrit-martin.png http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/xrit2pic_preview.jpg Patrik___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LRIT USRP2

2012-02-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 16:43, Patrik Tast pat...@poes-weather.com wrote: By Marin Blaho and Rob Alblas http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/lrit-martin.png http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/xrit2pic_preview.jpg What a thing of beauty. Excellent job to them! If they'd

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Josh Blum
On 02/21/2012 03:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 02/21/2012 06:18 PM, Iain Young, G7III wrote: They was within the same GRC File, although not linked (IE separate RX and TX chains) Yup, the precipitating characteristic appears to be that both TX and RX facilities are in use on the same

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP--Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Johnathan Corgan jcor...@corganenterprises.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:20, Nick Foster n...@ettus.com wrote: Before anyone goes out there and barbecues themselves with a USRP, two things: 1) Use Ettus Research products for power-line or hazardous

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Detection and classification of signals

2012-02-21 Thread Ben Reynwar
Wicked, thank you. That'll go a long way towards getting me started. It's frustrating when you're so ignorant you don't even know which search terms to type in. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ben Hilburn b...@ettus.com wrote: I'll note that none of my suggestions are actual techniques, but

[Discuss-gnuradio] Strange output of 0 at the terminal

2012-02-21 Thread Wu Ting
Hi all, I'm now using message_sink and msg_queue to receive data from USRP. I do some calculation for all the data in the msg_queue one by one and write some of them into a file. Everything seems to be working smoothly. But once in a while, a 0 is printed in the terminal. (There is no code to