Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:14:19AM +0800, Cheng Chi wrote: > I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I > used: > - USRP N210 + WBX > - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) > - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. > Since Iridium and Thuraya freq

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread John Malsbury
Also, apparently, the two systems have opposite polarization: http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/satcomms/3G1216RL-P-XXX-X.pdf -John On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:32 PM, John Malsbury wrote: > Cheng, > > The resources I've read say that the downlink is 1525-1559 MHz, which is a > ways off from Ir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread John Malsbury
Cheng, The resources I've read say that the downlink is 1525-1559 MHz, which is a ways off from Iridium's frequency of 1616-1626 MHz. This would suggest that you should find a different antenna, like this one which covers both bands: http://www.northernaxcess.com/satellite-communication-products/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:24 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I think it's TDMA/FDMA, not spread spectrum. Each channel is about 30KHz. Best regards, Cheng Chi Make sure that you're tuned to the correct frequency, and that your link margins are adequate. It could be that your antenna has insufficient gain

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi, I think it's TDMA/FDMA, not spread spectrum. Each channel is about 30KHz. Best regards, Cheng Chi On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: > - U

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite c

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite close, I suppose it would work more or less)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Questions on rx_ofdm example in GR 3.7.1

2014-01-28 Thread Johannes Demel
Hi, The patch in 86845ea15ab8d36f5c196c8ab56e5b77d43b4cf9 did not make it into the 'maint' branch. As this is a bugfix it should be applied on this branch as well. Happy hacking On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Aditya Dhananjay wrote: > >> >> >> For the record: The default is 8 bits CRC, so t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Restarting a flow graph after termination by a head block?

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ken, since segfaults are never desirable, we should look into the issue. Generally, I'd say that flowgraphs are not really meant for restarting if not special precautions were made. Many blocks are stateful, meaning that it does matter if you're t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Restarting a flow graph after termination by a head block?

2014-01-28 Thread Ken Adams
How can you restart a flow graph after a head block kills it? For example, I want to do something like the following: tb.start() tb.wait() # head block will terminate ... do some reconfiguration ... tb.start() However, I get a seg fault if I ever try to call tb.start() after the head block retur

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need an "indicator" on the GUI display

2014-01-28 Thread Isdren Gineer
If you build a wx.App application you can use wx.StaticBitmap indicators for each channel. The bitmap for each channel can then be SetBitmap() to either a red or green circle, for example, depending on whether the power exceeds a threshold. The power measurements and threshold checks can be perform

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] change a block parameter using a python script

2014-01-28 Thread Marco Bosco
It works! Thank you very much! Marco. -Original Message- From: Josh Blum [mailto:j...@joshknows.com] Sent: martedì 28 gennaio 2014 08.48 To: Marco Bosco; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] change a block parameter using a python script On 01/27/2014 11:19 PM, Mar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem w. block Message Source

2014-01-28 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jose Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jose Rodriguez >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am a beginner at Gnuradio and I am working on writing some simple >> > graphs. >> > I am hav

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem w. block Message Source

2014-01-28 Thread Jose Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jose Rodriguez > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am a beginner at Gnuradio and I am working on writing some simple > graphs. > > I am having a problem w. the block "Message Source". > > > > I got the block "Mes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem w. block Message Source

2014-01-28 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jose Rodriguez wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a beginner at Gnuradio and I am working on writing some simple graphs. > I am having a problem w. the block "Message Source". > > I got the block "Message Strobe" connected to "Message Source" (the goal is > to extract the da

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem w. block Message Source

2014-01-28 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi, I am a beginner at Gnuradio and I am working on writing some simple graphs. I am having a problem w. the block "Message Source". I got the block "Message Strobe" connected to "Message Source" (the goal is to extract the data bytes and feed them to a "Packet Encoder" block). The graph builds

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] header_payload_demux_impl.cc - problem when using random bit stream (variable trigger location)

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Braun
On 01/23/2014 03:21 PM, David Halls wrote: > I wondered, if you are working on the HPD, if it’s possible to look into > making a change when a header is received incorrectly, e.g. low SNR or > sudden shadowing. I find that (although it no longer crashes with the > recent update to adjust buffer siz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some thoughts on out of tree modules and cmake files

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thinking about it, if we're exchanging thoughts, I think the CMake Modules would make a fine submodule in the GR main tree, as well as in OOT modules. But that would introduce to initializing and updating the cmake submodule after cloning the gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some thoughts on out of tree modules and cmake files

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also, usually to build an OOT-Module you shouldn't need the whole GR tree, but only the headers that had been used to build the gnuradio-libraries as well as the libraries to link against. So, when introducing another external dependency for OOT modul

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some thoughts on out of tree modules and cmake files

2014-01-28 Thread Sylvain Munaut
> at the moment each out of tree module has it's one cmake/Modules path, > containing some cmake macros, mainly copied from some gnuradio source tree. GnuRadio already installs the required CMakefiles modules globally so AFAIK, OOT modules are free to use them. And it's definitely a goal toward t

[Discuss-gnuradio] Some thoughts on out of tree modules and cmake files

2014-01-28 Thread Volker Schroer
Hi, at the moment each out of tree module has it's one cmake/Modules path, containing some cmake macros, mainly copied from some gnuradio source tree. As gnuradio development proceeds, cmake modules may be updated. It's not always necessary but perhaps good practice to keep the out of tree cm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Write I/Q to WAV file.

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Braun
On 01/28/2014 10:01 AM, Jordan Johnson wrote: > They commonly peak at 10dB and above...even without any gain. How do I > go about decreasing it? Never explored that option but worth a shot I > suppose. I'm going to sleep now, but can up the GRC to Google Drive > later today for investigation. Just

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Write I/Q to WAV file.

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Braun
On 01/28/2014 09:56 AM, Jordan Johnson wrote: > My other email must've not made it. I'm a complete newbie to this > mailing list thing. I assumed it was Real and Imaginary. It worked for > signal sources. > > But anyway there still seems to be a snag. The individual inputs work, > but once they ge

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Write I/Q to WAV file.

2014-01-28 Thread Martin Braun
On 01/28/2014 01:26 AM, Jordan Johnson wrote: > Well it indeed appears to be my graph. Tried using a simple graph. > > Signal Source (32k) > Complex - Float > WAV Jordan, this is a common use case for WAV files, actually. What you do is you split the complex signal and pass the I part to one cha