[Discuss-gnuradio] samples _per_symbol parameter

2013-12-03 Thread Sandhya G
Hi everyone, i'am trying to do simply QAM modulation for that the source i used is vector source which gives 1byte of 1's and 0's which is fed to QAM modulator . Can anyone tell me how do i calculate samples/symbol .I know the traditional formula

[Discuss-gnuradio] Python chaos

2013-12-03 Thread Stefan Gofferje
Hi, I recently installed some stuff on my Opensuse 12.3, including gnuradio and QGis2. When using QT widgets, Gnuradio GRC fails with Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/sgofferj/top_block.py, line 12, in module from gnuradio import qtgui File

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Time controlling block

2013-12-03 Thread Karan Talasila
Marcus, I think wayne is referring to the gnuradio scheduler presentation of Tom Rondeau in his blog. The link is http://gnuradio.squarespace.com/blog/2013/9/15/explaining-the-gnu-radio-scheduler.html On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Marcus Müller mar...@hostalia.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] samples _per_symbol parameter

2013-12-03 Thread Karan Talasila
Hi, Bits/symbol depends on modulation scheme that you use to transmit. For BPSK, it is 1 bit/symbol, for QPSK it is 2 bit/symbol and for 64-QAM it is 6 bits/symbol. So you can set it according to modulation scheme you use. Samples/symbol is normally default set to 2. I am not aware in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] samples _per_symbol parameter

2013-12-03 Thread Sandhya G
Hi karan , Thanks for reply . well ya in gnuradio also if i set the value of samples/symbol below 2 it is throwing me an error . So is there any specific reason behind using the value greater than 2? and is that higher the value of samples/second the smoother will be the waveform? please

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM Modulation-Demodulation in Loopback

2013-12-03 Thread kt7
Just a follow up. I have noticed that data demodulation is intermittent, like if I execute the same flowgraph a number of times sometimes I get a waveform after demodulation but most of the time received scope is blank. I really have no explanation for this. Any information regarding this would

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] samples _per_symbol parameter

2013-12-03 Thread Karan Talasila
Hi Sandhya, You need atleast 2 samples/symbol for demodulation. Normally when there are sharp transitions in modulated carrier, it results in high frequency components in the frequency domain. This is a problem because there will be power across frequencies beyond the bandwidth of

[Discuss-gnuradio] how to implement synchronous source block correctly ?

2013-12-03 Thread Artem Pisarenko
Last few days I tried to implement RTP stream source block (based on sync_block) and found that this simple task is not trivial, as it seems to be, because GNU Radio scheduler and general data flow are not documented (for users). What mecahisms are allowed to be used in order to achieve producing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] samples _per_symbol parameter

2013-12-03 Thread Sandhya G
That was really a very clear explanation Thank you so much. Now i got the difference between the terms and also concept behind it Thanks sandhya On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Karan Talasila karan@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandhya, You need atleast 2 samples/symbol for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to implement synchronous source block correctly ?

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 03:59:34AM -0800, Artem Pisarenko wrote: Last few days I tried to implement RTP stream source block (based on sync_block) and found that this simple task is not trivial, as it seems to be, because GNU Radio scheduler and general data flow are not documented (for users).

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Go-back is possible?

2013-12-03 Thread Raydel Abreu (CM2ESP)
That will easy a lot the problem in the future. It seems interesting and I guess it won't be too hard to implement! Raydel 2013/12/2 Dan CaJacob dan.caja...@gmail.com I have an interesting (to me anyway) idea: What if we added a default option to the GRC-XML-to-python converter to add the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Go-back is possible?

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While I totally see that it's convenient to have the XML source in the generated file, I'd still say it's a bad idea to encourage people to use that feature. For example: User Alice has composed a flowgraph in GRC and has modified the python source

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Aah, so development goes on! Very interesting, I will give this a try, thanks a lot! Ralph. -- Ralph A. Schmid Mondstr. 10 90762 Fürth +49-171-3631223 ra...@schmid.xxx http://www.bclog.de/ From: Johannes Demel [mailto:johannes.de...@ettus.com] Sent: Monday, December 02,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can no longer build packages for PPA

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Alexandru Csete oz9...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Lately, I have been having increasing difficulties with building gnuradio successfully on the Ubuntu PPA builders. I think the problems is that the builds run in emulated environments and the builder is not as

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python chaos

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Stefan Gofferje li...@home.gofferje.net wrote: Hi, I recently installed some stuff on my Opensuse 12.3, including gnuradio and QGis2. When using QT widgets, Gnuradio GRC fails with Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/sgofferj/top_block.py, line

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM Modulation-Demodulation in Loopback

2013-12-03 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:07 AM, kt7 kartikset...@gmail.com wrote: Just a follow up. I have noticed that data demodulation is intermittent, like if I execute the same flowgraph a number of times sometimes I get a waveform after demodulation but most of the time received scope is blank. I

[Discuss-gnuradio] two RX paths

2013-12-03 Thread Nemanja Savic
Hi all guys, I would like to receive in my application signals from WBX board and from LFTX simultaneousely. At the moment, when I run the flow graph it ends immediately with core dump, and zero divisin exception. In the script, sources are defined in this way: self.uhd_usrp_source_0 =

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] two RX paths

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/03/2013 11:10 AM, Nemanja Savic wrote: Hi all guys, I would like to receive in my application signals from WBX board and from LFTX simultaneousely. At the moment, when I run the flow graph it ends immediately with core dump, and zero divisin exception. In the script, sources are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Hi, I gave it a try, but it misses something with libfftw3. [ 46%] Building CXX object lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-lte.dir/pss_tagger_cc_impl.cc.o [ 48%] Building CXX object lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-lte.dir/correlator.cc.o [ 51%] Building CXX object

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] two RX paths

2013-12-03 Thread Nemanja Savic
I see, but still don't get where this change should be made. And also, more important, i I have standard configuration with 2 DDCs and 2 DUCs, then it should work like that, cause I need only 2 DDCs if I am not wrong. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] two RX paths

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/03/2013 12:00 PM, Nemanja Savic wrote: Thank you Marcus again, I changed device address, in both places, but the same problem appears. I see that it loads now 4rx image, but the problem remains. self.uhd_usrp_source_1 = uhd.usrp_source(

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] two RX paths

2013-12-03 Thread Nemanja Savic
Thank you Marcus again, I changed device address, in both places, but the same problem appears. I see that it loads now 4rx image, but the problem remains. self.uhd_usrp_source_1 = uhd.usrp_source( device_addr=fpga=usrp1_fpga_4rx.rbf, stream_args=uhd.stream_args(

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP source block queries

2013-12-03 Thread Namrata Kamte
Hello. I am a graduate student researcher with the Satellite Technology Lab at The University of Texas at Arlington. I've been trying to find out the working behind the USRP source block. I did find some basic description (like what it does in a few sentences and the arguments it accepts) in the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP source block queries

2013-12-03 Thread Johannes Demel
Hi Namrata, USRPs use UHD as their hardware driver. [1] provides lots of documentation about USRPs. Have fun and happy hacking Johannes [1] http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Namrata Kamte namrata.ka...@gmail.comwrote: Hello. I am a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Johannes Demel
It is missing libfftw3f. Or more specific a make target. Anyway, as libfftw is a GR dependency it is not explicitly listed for gr-lte. Just to make things sure. Check if libfftw3 is installed. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras ra...@schmid.xxxwrote: Hi, I gave it a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP source block queries

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Namrata, I think you're mixing up a lot of concepts. A block is a software unit in the GNU Radio framework. Please read the introductory pages of gnuradio.org to understand blocks better. A USRP is a hardware device; it does the sampling, which,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM Modulation-Demodulation in Loopback

2013-12-03 Thread Kartik Seth
I am transmitting and receiving from the same bladeRF board using a cable and a 20 dB attenuator. If you see in the flowgraph I multiply by 0.3, that is specifically to prevent clipping and non-linearity. I have tried using AGC or gain of low pass filter but no success. The problem is that same

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bug in DBPSK blocks

2013-12-03 Thread Nick Foster
Hi all, There's a bug in the block for the DBPSK modulator. The differential param isn't set to True in dbpsk_mod; it's just left to default, and differential defaults to False in the bpsk_mod block. So it really acts like a BPSK modulator. QPSK was the same. Here's a patch. diff --git

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QAM Modulation-Demodulation in Loopback

2013-12-03 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Kartik Seth kartikset...@gmail.com wrote: I am transmitting and receiving from the same bladeRF board using a cable and a 20 dB attenuator. If you see in the flowgraph I multiply by 0.3, that is specifically to prevent clipping and non-linearity. I have tried

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-ctrlport-monitor timeout exception

2013-12-03 Thread Nowlan, Sean
Sorry it took me a bit of time to respond. Yes, I'm sure my flowgraph is still running and producing data as expected. Can anybody think of why the ice endpoint would die unexpectedly? Sean From: Tim Newman [mailto:tim.new...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:42 AM To: Nowlan,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Install: qa_volk_test_all fails on armv7

2013-12-03 Thread Monahan-Mitchell, Tim
The volk test is failing on my gnuradio build on a Beaglebone Black (armv7h) running Arch Linux Arm. # make test start 1: qa_volk_test_all *** 2 failures detected in test suite Master Test Suite1/177 Test #1: qa_volk_test_all .***Failed9.88 sec Full output of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-ctrlport-monitor timeout exception

2013-12-03 Thread Nowlan, Sean
Perhaps this is happening due to the ICE endpoint's TCP timeout setting. I have it configured to 300 ms based on the example ctrlport.conf file distributed with GNU Radio. I'll try increasing this. A few questions: 1) What disadvantages would there be to setting this to something really

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Playback

2013-12-03 Thread Paul B. Huter
When I play my data file back through a throttle and frequency translating FIR filter to an FFT sink with repeat OFF, it seems to just show a static plot. However, with repeat ON, I get playback, but I can't tell when data ends and starts back over. Is there a way for me to know when it repeats?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Sorry, forgot to mention it, of course it is installed. libfftw3-3 with dev and dbg, from the normal packet management. OS is Kubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit, GR3.7 installed and working, uhd, gr-osmosdr, bladerf. Ralph, From: Johannes Demel [mailto:johannes.de...@ettus.com] Sent: Tuesday,

[Discuss-gnuradio] E110 problem executing simple code

2013-12-03 Thread maiconkist
Hi list, when I try to execute a simple code in my new USRP E110, it gives me the following error: uhd_sink = uhd.usrp_sink(device_addr = serial=MY_USRP_SERIAL, stream_args=uhd.stream_args('fc32')) File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnuradio/uhd/__init__.py, line 116, in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Playback

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Most probably your data is simply to short in relation to the fft length and the amount of samples your specific graphical FFT amplitude sink drops for display. Please review you fft length, update rate, and try out different fft GUIs (qt/wx). You

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Hauke
Hi Ralph, On 03.12.2013 21:51, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention it, of course it is installed. libfftw3-3 with dev and dbg, from the normal packet management. OS is Kubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit, GR3.7 installed and working, uhd, gr-osmosdr, bladerf. the library path to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Playback

2013-12-03 Thread Paul B. Huter
Marcus: I like the way the waterfall looks, but I'm having the same issue as the FFT. Looking at the configuration for my FFT, and changing 'Refresh Rate' from the default '15' to '1M' gives me some extra playback. My datafile was recorded for about 20 seconds at a sample rate of 50Msps through

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] E110 problem executing simple code

2013-12-03 Thread Philip Balister
Have you run opkg update; opkg upgrade? What happens if you try this with the network dos connected? (So it doesn't see the N210) Philip On 12/03/2013 04:01 PM, maiconkist wrote: Hi list, when I try to execute a simple code in my new USRP E110, it gives me the following error:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can no longer build packages for PPA

2013-12-03 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Tom Rondeau t...@trondeau.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Alexandru Csete oz9...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Lately, I have been having increasing difficulties with building gnuradio successfully on the Ubuntu PPA builders. I think the problems is

[Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd:MIMO cable synchronization accuracy

2013-12-03 Thread Harry Zhang
Hi everyone, To synchronize two USRPs, I connect them and add the following code in the slave USRP. --- set_clock_source( 'MIMO',0); set_time_source('MIMO',0); --- I have got that the length of MIMO cable is fixed because the cable delay is

[Discuss-gnuradio] DPSK losing bytes in simulation

2013-12-03 Thread chris 0
Hi, I'm very confused with the following flow chart: file -- throttle -- dpsk mod --- dpsk demod -- unpacked to packed -- file sink I'm losing 2 bytes in the output file. I've uploaded the grc here - www.anfractuosity.com/files/dpsk-test.grc I realise the data could get corrupted due to the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LTE framework receiver gr-lte

2013-12-03 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Hi, the library path to libfftw3f is actually hardcoded in the makefile. search for SET(FFTW3f /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3f.so) in gr37-lte/lib/CMakeLists.txt and replace it with the the proper library location for your system. for example: SET(FFTW3f /usr/lib64/libfftw3f.so)

[Discuss-gnuradio] About DPSK mod and demod

2013-12-03 Thread Henry Jin
Hi, I tried to build a simple flow graph of DPSK modulation and demodulation. The result is verified using the Error Rate module. The link shows the flow I'm using. https://www.dropbox.com/s/jwmmttyi4es4alf/Screenshot%20from%202013-12-03%2021%3A50%3A58.png I know that the output of demod module

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] About DPSK mod and demod

2013-12-03 Thread Nick Foster
Can you try using the PSK mod/demod blocks with differential=Yes instead of the DPSK mod/demod blocks? I found an issue today with the DPSK mod/demod blocks which results in them not actually using differential encoding. --n On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Henry Jin henry.ji...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python chaos

2013-12-03 Thread Stefan Gofferje
On 12/03/2013 04:50 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: You probably upgraded your system to use QT5, which won't work with GNU Radio. See about finding a way to switch between QT4 and QT5 on your Suse system. Nope, no QT5 here. I posted the same question on the opensuse mailinglist some time ago and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-ieee802-11: connecting two usrp devices

2013-12-03 Thread Bastian Bloessl
On 2013-12-02 13:25, Nasi wrote: The problem is that all frames are dropped. The copy paste of the terminal is below: Did you play around with the gain and see if that helps? Is frame detection working or are you just streaming samples into the flow graph that make absolutely no sense?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Playback

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paul! I'm gonna go ahead and rearrange parts of your message for the ease of reply: My datafile was recorded for about 20 seconds at a sample rate of 50Msps through a low-pass filter to only capture 0-30MHz. 50Msps * 20s = 1Gs (you're sure your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issue with the GNU radio installation

2013-12-03 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looks like parts of Boost are missing (boost::filesystem). How did you try to install GNU Radio? PyBOMBS? manually from git? build gnuradio script? Did building previous versions work out? PyBOMBS is the official way to do it and usually installs all

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issue with the GNU radio installation

2013-12-03 Thread Sandhya G
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the reply Well I installed manually from git. Ok never tried with pybombs. Even when I tried installing previous version I faced the same errors along with the volk also failed. Thanks Sandhya On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Marcus Müller mar...@hostalia.de wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] trouble with gr_multiply_const_ff

2013-12-03 Thread atools_cook
lan I have done some research work. The input values of uhd should be -1=x1, and the gr_multiply_const_ff block has set the default amplitude to 1, so this block seems useless. The only way I found to scale the power of signal we transmit is to enhance the gain of usrp_sink. However, we use

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to implement synchronous source block correctly ?

2013-12-03 Thread Artem Pisarenko
Thank you for fast answer. Martin Braun (CEL) wrote There's an overview of the scheduler: http://gnuradio.squarespace.com/blog/2013/9/15/explaining-the-gnu-radio-scheduler.html Users, as you say, usually don't need more than this to write GNU Radio code, and most often don't need to know

[Discuss-gnuradio] Reporting Problems to this Mailing List

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
Hi guys, whenever you have a problem and are asking the mailing list for help, there are a few things to keep in mind. First of all, make sure you have read this: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/ReportingErrors However, there's something else you should keep in mind: If you