Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio is crap and GSoc

2012-02-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Tom makes the point that Gnu Radio isn't shiny.  Indeed, it isn't. Some people arrive at Gnu Radio expecting that it is an end application, and walk away badly disappointed. They have in their mind a firm notion of what constitutes a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Lentvorski bs...@allcaps.org wrote: No embedded engineer who values his job will touch a GPL piece of code with a 10 foot pole.  Period. …and these are folks who will be out-competed in the marketplace by competitors who are more agile and less phobic.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Goertzel vs FIR bandpass

2010-12-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I tried an experiment this evening with my 6-channel VLF receiver, which uses a sound-card (sampled at 96KHz or 192KHz) to sample  a VLF loop antenna and amplifier, and then do power detection (and other things) over

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] External clock source Info?

2010-08-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote: On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:24 PM, William Pretty Security Inc wrote: It seems that 52MHz /64MHz precision clock references are like hen’s teeth, so I’m working on a design. What I need to know is what sort of level is the USRP1

[Discuss-gnuradio] Real-time audio compression

2010-04-10 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Anyone know of any open-source, audio compression technologies that scale to 96KHz sample rates? I'm looking for something that can compress on the fly an audio channel that has spectral components  up to the nyquist

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit legit, become a ham

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:22 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Nothing forces you to interact with other ham radio operators. You can happily work in isolation communicating among your own stations if you wish. Unless you need to do frequency coordination, which you usually do. Then you

[Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit legit, become a ham

2010-03-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
As discussed in the licensing thread... In FCC-land the only people that can legally transmit at any kind of real power level using non-certified devices without obtaining specific permission from the FCC are amateur radio operators. Testing with attenuators is an obvious first step, but it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CUDA GPU Vs CELL BE

2009-06-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Vincenzo Pellegriniwwvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I have recently had a look at two possibilities for SWRadio-aimed  intensive computing, which i guess are the two main development lanes for our kind of stuff: .:. Cell BE platform .:. CUDA nVidia

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu vs other linux

2009-06-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Eric Blossome...@comsec.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:41:59PM -0700, BlueEyeBirdy wrote: Hey everyone, I'm writing a report on gnu radio and I had a question... I believe most everyone uses Ubuntu compared to other Linux systems for GNU radios why

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp2 tune two different frequencies

2009-04-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, emat...@nd.edu wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM,  emat...@nd.edu wrote: Is there any reason why the situation could not be the same as with the USPR1, with which I can program 2 DDC's on 1 LFRX

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [dttsp-linux] Intel ATOM WHOOAAAAA Nellie

2009-02-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Frank Brickle ab...@arrl.net wrote: [snip] Short form: for dttsp-linux and general RF hardware, the Atom 330 is unquestionably the more utilitarian alternative. This is especially so when, given Nvidia's history regarding Open drivers, Linux support for ION is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CATV to USRP?

2009-01-10 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, davek davidki...@gmail.com wrote: what would be the best RX card and what kind of attenuation circuitry will i need to implement for tuning in the entire bandwidth of RF from my local cable company? TVRX is pretty much exactly what you're asking for. It's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] non root access to usrp2 on Fedora 10

2008-12-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Chris Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] A compromise I've seen is a hack. We call it blindly blasted UDP. You write a special case network stack that only works on a point to point Ethernet. You don't even check for collisions at the Ethernet level.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh

2008-11-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that TI has withdrawn the free offering of a linux version of its compilers that I pointed out earlier (in October) at this link.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Reference frequency sources

2008-11-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Of interest to some folks here, an Ebay seller http://myworld.ebay.com/fluke.l/ has many used/surplus Trimble Thunderbolts GPSDOs for sale. I haven't received any yet, but I heard good reviews about that seller from someone in #hamradio on freenode. (I purchased two, and I recommend that you avail

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] amateur virtual radio

2008-10-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Bob Keyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if there are any projects to build a 'virtual transceiver' using gnu radio, and specifically using the USRP hardware. what I mean by this is a gui control panel to present an interface and capabilities of a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

2008-09-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PowerSDR software seems to both be GPL and be available on the sr-40 website. Am I misunderstanding what the rocky software is? http://www.dxatlas.com/Rocky/ ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

2008-09-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Chris Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really does not have it's own software. It's just that most softrock user like to use the rocky software because it runs on Windows. You can't really do much with Rocky because it is closed source, binary only.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Weird WX scope problem

2008-09-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Running the current SVN I'm having a problem with apps that display multiple scopes (usrp_nbfm_rcv.py) for example. What happens is that the application will update only a single scope at a time. One scope updates for a couple of seconds then another scope does, in a round robin fashion. The GUI

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FPGA Notes

2008-09-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matt Ettus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Well here is one alternative. The S3-1500 is pin compatible with the 2000. If enough people wish to purchase a special version with the smaller FPGA I can have a number of them built that way. You would have to do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with rx_voice.py

2008-09-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the need for python to rebuild the signal chain after every packet is an utter killer which keeps it from working remotely efficiently. (i.e. back to back packets with the modem running at the same bitrate as the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] super fast gnuradio PC

2008-09-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Achilleas Anastasopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for the slightly off topic. I had just received a donation from Intel of 8 quad-core XEON processors E5440 and I was thinking of building a super fast gnuradio PC system. Does anyone have an idea

[Discuss-gnuradio] 10mhz refclock on USRP2

2008-09-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
I just thought USRP2 buyers might be interested in http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/projects/ministd/frqstd.htm (I wish my USRP classiss had the 10mhz refclock input! :) ) ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP support plan

2008-09-12 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Alberto Trentadue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have recently purchased the USRP and planning SDR/education applications. Now that USRP2 is out, what is the plan to keep USRP supported, both HW-wise and by GNURadio? The USRP2 does not really replace USRP.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usage of usrp

2008-09-10 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Joreen Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally new to gnu radio and it is required for me to do a final year project on using the usrp as a base station to send and receive gsm signals. i would like to check, in order to use the USRP as a base station, is it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Price

2008-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Dan Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoa; are these actually purchaseable yet? Last I heard Matt wasn't taking preorders and there weren't any announcements to the contrary. I didn't think they were up when I looked this morning, but they appear to be up now.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Price

2008-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same daughter boards that work for USRP, work for USRP2. Any news on the WBX0510? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with rx_voice.py

2008-08-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Johnathan Corgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Ulf Lindgren A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying the tx_voice.py and rx_voice.py, and I have had some problems with the rx_voice.py failing. However, I think there is a bug

[Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Larrabee, was: [cell] new sony zego announced

2008-08-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new Cell product by Sony was announced this week at SIGGRAPH: www.sony.com/zego Looks like a 1U cell. Not sure if they're going to give Linux access to the RSX or not. I pointed this out on IRC, but perhaps some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP/GNURADIO Commercially

2008-07-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Joel Koltner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I understand that if you just provide the binaries to a customer, you must give them a means to get the source code, and if they choose to distribute that binary to others, they'll just pass on that original offer

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using USRP/GNURADIO Commercially

2008-07-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Rudy Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:55:50 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry, but that is illegal. You can use the USRP, but not the GNURADIO firmware or software. Um, no. Okay you got me. But answer me this: Why did we

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Posted: Enhanced GMSK demodulator

2008-06-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It should be a drop-in replacement for the existing demodulator in designs, except that the transmitted data needs to be differentially encoded (you will NOT, however, need a differential decoder on the receive side).

[Discuss-gnuradio] Packets and m-blocks

2008-05-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Greetings. Some time ago created a number of GNURadio signal processing blocks for audio codecs, and have recently gotten around to finishing them up for public release (Speex and CELT, along with the speex acoustic echo canceler). Constant bitrate support was a piece of cake (and wow does Speex

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 ?!?!!

2008-05-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
XCVR2450: http://www.ettus.com/custom.html ! But what about WBX0510? :) ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Proposal Draft: Next Generation Digital Voice Codecs and Vocoders for Amateur Radio

2008-05-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I've written a draft proposal at http://codec2.org/ to create some good open voice codecs and solve the problem of proprietary AMBE on D*STAR. Please read it, and send comments directly to me - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Residual Frequency?

2008-04-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Wireless Monster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the gmsk modulation (blks2.gmsk_mod) I have to scale the value (for example by multiplying it by 8000) before sending it to the USRP to get the resulting signal centered at the right frequency. If don't do it the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I understand completely your viewpoint. However, let me point out that one of your key objectives should be to increase popularity of GNU Radio software. One way to do this is to encourage and support GNU Radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg- On days that I'm in philosophical mode, I completely agree. But the reality is that MATLAB is far more widely used than Octave. MATLAB is at the core of the commercial and academic RF community, Octave is not.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Matlab interface to USRP

2008-04-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Eric, well said. My one exception is your reasoning based on what features MATLAB and/or GNU Radio have or don't have. If you ask colleagues why do you need to use MATLAB they will say because it's what

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP w/ 4-bit IQ sample

2008-04-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Firas Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If the I,Q bit width output of the DDC is reduced from 16 bit to 12 bit, then I Q will occupy 24 bit (3 Bytes). Thus we will be able to maximize the instantaneous bandwidth to 32MB/3 = 10.6MHz without scarifying much

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new 802.11b receiver

2008-03-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Mohammad Hamed Firooz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, new USRP will support Gigabit Ethernet, but most computers don't support that. You have to buy an extra card or buscard for your desktop or laptop. Just about anything bought in the last few years should

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] execute MATLAB code with mlab_call

2008-03-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Greg Troxel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several issues. One is following the proprietary program's license, and another is complying with the GPL, which requires that all of any derivative work be licensed under the GPL. Then, there's the cultural

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DV Dongle - AMBE USB Device

2008-03-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jeff Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Using a AMBE or other codec chip is part of the hardware versus software decision. We want to do everything in software but there are limitations. [snip] Agree. In the open source voice community, many times