[Discuss-gnuradio] Waterfall display in uhd_fft

2016-01-03 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, We are running gnuradio v 3.7.8 on Ubuntu 15.08. H/W is B210.We are looking at our self echo from EME (moon bounce). When running uhd_fft, we see clear EME echo signals on the FFT display (10-20 db above the noise). However, we don't see these signals on the waterfall

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP CODEC loopback error with B210

2015-10-03 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, We have been experiencing occasional "CODEC loopback test" failures when using a B210. A very similar problem was reported at http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/2015-September/015645.html In our case* the problem happens roughly once per every 20 attempts. We

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Meta file time stamp

2015-09-09 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Sep 9, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Marlow <mar...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Dear All, > > We are experiencing unexpected behavior with the time stamps in the meta > file headers. It > appears that in c

[Discuss-gnuradio] Meta file time stamp

2015-09-02 Thread Daniel Marlow
Dear All, We are experiencing unexpected behavior with the time stamps in the meta file headers. It appears that in cases where the flowgraph experiences data drops, the timestamp is properly updated. However, in cases, where the flowgraph hits the maximum segment size (4 MB in our

[Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2015-06-30 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, In the gnuradio/gr-noaa/README file under usrp_rx_hrpt.py, there is a comment that reads as follows: The present HRPT demodulator is only tested at decimation 16.The only other valid decimation rates are 24 and 32, which may work, but with more bit errors. No other decimation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HRPT receiver

2015-06-30 Thread Daniel Marlow
devices (N210/N200), 4MS/s is a suboptimal rate, since the decimation (25) is odd, and I'd try with something less strange, like 5MS/s. Best regards, Marcus On 06/30/2015 10:49 PM, Daniel Marlow wrote: Hello, In the gnuradio/gr-noaa/README file under usrp_rx_hrpt.py

[Discuss-gnuradio] B210 two-channel operation

2015-01-27 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, OS: Ubuntu 14.01.1 gnu-radio: 3.7.6 Dell Optiplex 765 I am having trouble using the B210 USRP in two channel mode. Things work well when I use grc to configure the B210 with one channel, but when I try using two channels, I get the error shown below. This is quite similar to a problem

[Discuss-gnuradio] specest issue

2014-12-23 Thread Daniel Marlow
Dear All: OS: Ubuntu 14.01.1 gnu-radio: 3.7.6 Dell Optiplex 765 I want to use the moving_average_vff block from specest, which is not available in GRC. I tried installing gr-specest using pybombs (gnuradio was already installed on this system using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] specest issue

2014-12-23 Thread Daniel Marlow
No, I didn't. And I am not sure why not, since it made it work so much better! Seriously . . . thanks for the help. I should have known that. Cheers, Dan On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 12/23/2014 08:47 AM, Daniel Marlow wrote: Dear All: OS: Ubuntu 14.01.1

[Discuss-gnuradio] RX channel 1 out of range for configured RX frontends

2014-11-03 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, We are using a TVRX2 board with a N200 USRP.Until recently, the system was working properly with two channels using the attached flowgraph.For reasons that are unclear, it stopped working and is no longer capable of two channel operation (if we set the Num channels parameter

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RX channel 1 out of range for configured RX frontends

2014-11-03 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 11/03/2014 05:55 PM, Daniel Marlow wrote: Hello, We are using a TVRX2 board with a N200 USRP.Until recently, the system was working properly with two channels using the attached flowgraph. For reasons that are unclear

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why is fft output complex?

2014-10-11 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Oct 11, 2014, at 5:38 PM, k1...@comcast.net k1...@comcast.net wrote: I can't wrap my head around why fft transform of complex signal produces a complex output. After all the output reflects the amount of energy per frequency bin and frequency bins and energy are both real numbers, no?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX2 and GRC

2014-10-05 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Oct 4, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: If you put your flow-graph itself (.grc file) somewhere, or attach it, we can take a better look. What kind of comptuer? (OS, CPU/MEM specifics, etc). -- Marcus Leech

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX2 and GRC

2014-10-04 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: If you put your flow-graph itself (.grc file) somewhere, or attach it, we can take a better look. What kind of comptuer? (OS, CPU/MEM specifics, etc). -- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TVRX2 and GRC

2014-10-04 Thread Daniel Marlow
On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Jeff Long wrote: Dan, If you execute the various sudo sysctl ... lines shown in the warnings, does it work any better? You can make these permanent. man sysctl.conf - Jeff Hi Jeff, Thanks for the suggestion.We will give that a try. Cheers,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parsing extra metadata

2014-08-21 Thread Daniel Marlow
, at 6:03 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Marlow mar...@princeton.edu wrote: Hello, I am trying to add some extra information to the standard metadata file header. Following the information posted on http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen

[Discuss-gnuradio] Parsing extra metadata

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello, I am trying to add some extra information to the standard metadata file header. Following the information posted on http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_metadata.html , I am able to write and read the standard metadata.I have attempted to add extra metadata with the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WBFM receive block and FM demodulation process questions

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Marlow
Hello J, You can find some details on this at URL: http://radioware.nd.edu/documentation/basic-gnuradio It sounds like much of this will be old hat to you, but there is a section entitled Exploring the FM receiver, which addresses at least some of your specific question.