Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Hi, First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using them for real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and PAs. "Out of the box" it will only be some proof of concept when you create a ham radio application with it. All 50 ohms, no limitations other than u

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
Be careful, an antenna filters less than one would expect :) Ralph. From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+ralph=schmid@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+ralph=schmid@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Müller Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 16:21 To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: R

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 25/12/15 15:18, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using them for > real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and PAs. "Out of > the box" it will only be some proof of concept when you create a ham radio >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread David McQuate
Broadcast radio & TV transmitters, police & fire repeaters, and others have potent signals. If your system does not attenuate them, by using low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass filters, the peak voltage at your analog to digital converter may at times exceed "full scale". The resulting non-linea

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Ralph, On 12/25/2015 03:20 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: > > Be careful, an antenna filters less than one would expect :) > I do agree; but: For example, if you have bad luck, the B2x0 might produce a third harmonic of the oscillator it generates to mix up your signal; e.g. if you tune to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 12/25/2015 09:18 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: Hi, First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using them for real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and PAs. "Out of the box" it will only be some proof of concept when you create a ham radio applica

[Discuss-gnuradio] USB 3.0 controllers for SDR

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
The Ettus web site has a page about USB chipsets[1], suggesting some of them can't handle the continuous streaming for SDR Is this information up to date, can anybody else comment on this? I'm looking at using a HP Z800 workstation which has quite a lot of grunt but only has USB 2 built-in, HP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 25/12/15 19:44, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 12/25/2015 09:18 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using >> them for real ham radio operation on antennas will require filters and >> PAs. "Out of the box" it will only be s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Markus Heller
Hi, yes, what Ralph said is very true. The real strength of the USRP series is it's high sampling speed. I own the USRP2, which is already around 5 years old and already did 100 MS per second, but it was rather expensive at that time. You can get much cheaper SDR hardware today such as the RedPi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Daniel, On 12/25/2015 09:51 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 25/12/15 19:44, Marcus D. Leech wrote: >> On 12/25/2015 09:18 AM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> First of all, the USRP radios are kind of experimental radios, using >>> them for real ham radio operation on antennas wil

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Ron Economos
The Ettus B200 will be the preferred ground station for AMSAT's Phase 4 satellite. https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/blob/master/Papers_and_Presentations/AMSAT_DSP_Hardware_Paper_by_Mike_Parker.pdf https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/ https://github.com/phase4ground/satellite_gro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USB 3.0 controllers for SDR

2015-12-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Daniel, wow, you don't start small. Really, for audio rate signals, your average laptop or desktop computer will do. If you want to do awesome signal processing, the more CPU the better, but don't go out and buy a new workstation assuming you'll need it. Regarding your card: PCIe x1 is much fa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio 3.7.9: Issue with OSX Port of gnuradio-companion

2015-12-25 Thread Kevin McQuiggin
Hi All: Further info: The issue seems to be with the single quote in the the .grc’s directory path, “Kevin’s Programs”. Looks like there needs to be an escape added before single quotes in file names or directory paths. If I move the subject .grc to another directory (i.e. not including “Kevi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio 3.7.9: Issue with OSX Port of gnuradio-companion

2015-12-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Kevin, great debugging! The most likely place to look in is gnuradio/grc/python/Generator.py and the .tmpl file in that same directory. I'm not overly experienced with that, but maybe pdb is right for you. A quick grep showed that the string "No closing quotation" doesn't occur in GNU Radio's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Nate Temple
Hi, > Remember the Nyquist Theorem, which tells us that you can sample 1,6 MHz > wir 3,2 MSPS, and common amateur radio signals are generally far smaller > than 1,6 MHz. So the RTLSDR stick will probably be sufficient for most > of your experiments. Just a small correction, the samples from the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ham/amateur getting started

2015-12-25 Thread Nate Temple
Henry, Yes, the data stream will be interleaved I and Q values. Happy Holidays, Nate > On Dec 25, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Henry Barton wrote: > > You're right, Nate, the sampling rate equals bandwidth on SDR's. Does complex > sampling mean using I and Q? > > Sent from Windows Mail > > From: Nat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

2015-12-25 Thread Martin Braun
There's nothing 'wrong', but PyBOMBS does something else. - The standard packagers can only install what someone has packaged (usually quite outdated), and most of them only install to the system - Installing out-of-tree modules doesn't work except for some, on some packagers - You often want to