Re: Rational resample before FFT, and FFT rate

2024-04-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 4/30/24 21:40, Gary Schafer wrote: Sorry about my misunderstanding. I recreated a portion of your flowgraph just to see what it would do. I left the 16 kHz sample rate but with a 2^15 time record size. Once I ran the flowgraph, it was 17.5 seconds before the Number Sink updated, and 34 seco

Re: Rational resample before FFT, and FFT rate

2024-04-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 4/30/24 18:35, Gary Schafer wrote: "I need data points at convenient intervals for time series plotting, e.g., 512 samples/second going into a 512 bin FFT to provide one maximum amplitude value per second." Let me answer that one at the same time as "Ultimately I want to plot both the amp

Re: Rational resample before FFT, and FFT rate

2024-04-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Gary -- Thanks for getting back to me. Maybe I can explain better what I'm doing. The data is 16 ksps complex IQ centered at 50.080 MHz. The target signal is an essentially unmodulated CW carrier about 427 below that. I have about 8 hours of recorded data to analyze. Ultimately I want

Rational resample before FFT, and FFT rate

2024-04-28 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am reading Digital RF data at 16k samples/second, and my goal is to get the power of the maximum frequency once per second. I start by resampling to a power-of-two rate, then translating to move the desired frequency to the center with further decimation, then doing an FFT, converting to log

Re: Strategies to save/display low sample-rate data

2024-04-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
By the way, I was using the Digital RF Channel Source block to read HDF5 data files. That block automatically throttles at the rate in the HDF5 metadata. The alternate "Digital RF Source" block has a throttle parameter, but it seems to work backwards -- when set to true, it doesn't throttle a

Re: Strategies to save/display low sample-rate data

2024-04-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 4/10/24 11:29, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Both the decimation and 80 size 1024 FFTs per second should be peanuts for any modern PC... And of course you don't need to do the FFT again for every sample, it just generates a lot of redundant data. I understood that if you have a 1024 bin waterfall

Strategies to save/display low sample-rate data

2024-04-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I want to make waterfall displays of narrow bandwidth signals -- say +/- 20 Hz with FFT depth of 1024. Decimating to ~80 samples/second and feeding that into a 1024 bin FFT is... not fast. What's the best way to record the FFT vectors to speed up the display for later analysis? What blocks w

Re: Determining peak instantaneous power in waveform

2022-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
peak imaginary negative = -0.821772 peak real positive @ 1703752736, peak imaginary positive @ 1624430697 peak real negative @ 1846543928, peak imaginary negative @ 2753521145 Ron On 5/17/22 12:44, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Hi -- I have broadband HF data recorded off the air (ham radio bands 384

Determining peak instantaneous power in waveform

2022-05-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I have broadband HF data recorded off the air (ham radio bands 384 kHz wide) and am trying to figure out what sort of gain settings I need to play it back on a USRP without distortion. My worry is the way multiple fairly strong signals could add together in phase to create momentary sp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RPi Filesystem Image

2019-05-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
There is some magic involved in shrinking a RPi image so that it will then expand when reinstalled, like the original Raspbian. I went through the pain a while ago and documented it here: https://blog.febo.com/?p=283 John On 5/8/19 12:45 PM, Philip Balister wrote: > On 05/08/2019 12:09 PM,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing maximum complex value

2019-03-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
That's great! Thanks, Ron! On 3/17/19 3:30 PM, Ron Economos wrote: I have a block that does what you need. https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-iqlevels Ron On 3/17/19 08:09, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm working on a flowgraph that generates an output waveform about 375 kHz wide with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing maximum complex value

2019-03-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 3/17/19 3:45 PM, Kevin Reid wrote: If you want to detect clipping, you want to know if the magnitude of any sample is greater than 1.0 — that's all there is to it. No FFT. My code happens to divide the stream into vectors but that is the only similarity. Performing a FFT will not help you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing maximum complex value

2019-03-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 3/17/19 3:01 PM, Kevin Reid wrote: One of the AGC blocks that has separate attack and decay rates (agc2_cc or agc3_cc) could be used to do this: set attack to 1, decay to 0, ignore the output, and read (1.0 / agc.gain()) to find the peak-hold magnitude. In my own application, I am using t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing maximum complex value

2019-03-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 3/17/19 12:55 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 03/17/2019 11:09 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm working on a flowgraph that generates an output waveform about 375 kHz wide with very high peak-to-average power -- at least 20 dB.  This is sent into a USRP1 with BasicTX board to genera

[Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing maximum complex value

2019-03-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm working on a flowgraph that generates an output waveform about 375 kHz wide with very high peak-to-average power -- at least 20 dB. This is sent into a USRP1 with BasicTX board to generate an output at 29 MHz. I'd like to show in the flowgraph GUI the peak instantaneous output level, to h

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann. N8UR
>compiling. > >On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 2:56 PM Ron Economos wrote: > >> It's probably checking out the wrong version of GNU Radio and/or >VOLK. >> These days, you need to checkout the maint-3.7 branch and do a >submodule >> update. >> >> git

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
agnose. John On 10/29/18 3:49 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: On Mint 19 (and presumably Ubuntu 18.04), you can do "sudo apt-get install python-setuptools".  Maybe that should be added to the package check step.  You can also do "sudo apt-get install python-pip" to in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
you there directly. I'm now rerunning the script. BTW, this install is on a fresh Mint 19 with no development stuff pre-installed, so there shouldn't be anything weird in my setup. John On 10/29/18 1:28 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 10/29/2018 11:18 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Well, this was unexpected... I got a failure in the UHD build phase: UHD build apparently failed Exiting UHD build I just re-ran with logging turned on; the results are in the attached build-gnuradio.log.gz file. On 10/29/18 10:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Hi Marcus -- I did as James

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Well, this was unexpected... I got a failure in the UHD build phase: UHD build apparently failed Exiting UHD build I just re-ran with logging turned on; the results are in the attached build-gnuradio.log.gz file. On 10/29/18 10:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Hi Marcus -- I did as James

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
on to track all the distribs   and do the recipes myself. If simply bypassing that check works, let me know, and I can update the script On 29 October 2018 at 07:11, John Ackermann N8UR <mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: Thanks, Neel!  However, I just downloaded the version o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
ntained on GitHub. https://github.com/ccera-astro/build-gnuradio --Neel Pandeya On 29 October 2018 at 07:04, John Ackermann N8UR <mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I'm trying to run the current build-gnuradio.sh script from sbrac.org <http://sbrac.org> on a Linux Mint

[Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm trying to run the current build-gnuradio.sh script from sbrac.org on a Linux Mint 19 machine and the script immediately fails, saying "Your Mint release must be at least Linux Mint 11 to proceed" Is it safe to just bypass that check, or is there some sort of incompatibilty with v19? Or is

[Discuss-gnuradio] High Pass and Low Pass performance not inverse

2018-03-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm setting up a measurement program to look at the channel power inside and outside a defined bandwidth centered at zero. The idea is to get the ratio of the power within a low pass filter (nominally 500 Hz), and the power in the rest of the spectrum (192 kHz) with that same 500 Hz chunk notc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding values in QT Number

2018-03-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
so this patch is fixed at two places, but at least it shows what needs to change to work. (I'm also not sure if this broke things for an integer rather than float input.) John On 03/06/2018 10:41 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I must now reflect and ponder to wisely choose my pat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding values in QT Number

2018-03-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 03/06/2018 10:41 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I must now reflect and ponder to wisely choose my path.  All options suck. I'd actually like most to go back to the build-gnuradio script but I haven't been able to verify that the issue I had last summer was addressed -- I don&#

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding values in QT Number

2018-03-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
dio; mkdir build; cd build; cmake .." and finally "make -j8; make install" as well as to recompile anything that uses GNU Radio, and never to install Ubuntu's GNU Radio again, lest you want to end up in conflict hell. Best regards, Marcus On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 09:07 -0500,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding values in QT Number

2018-03-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
urce code and API change, so it'll require recompilation of GNU Radio and relinking of everything that use gr-qtgui. Does that help you? Best regards, Marcus On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 16:36 -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I hate to put such a dumb question to the list, but I'm going nuts tryi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding values in QT Number

2018-03-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I hate to put such a dumb question to the list, but I'm going nuts trying to do something that ought to be simple. I am using a QT Number Sink to display dB values in float format. It is showing many more decimal places than have any meaning. I'd like to round the display to one or two decim

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Write WAV file in integer format?

2018-01-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
at worked just fine. Without the multiplication, I think the very low level (-100 dB range) stuff was lost in the conversion. John On 01/07/2018 06:19 PM, Andy Walls wrote: From: John Ackermann N8UR Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:59:32 -0500 I need to output IQ data from a Gnuradio script i

[Discuss-gnuradio] Write WAV file in integer format?

2018-01-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I need to output IQ data from a Gnuradio script in 2-channel WAV format using integer rather than floating point, as required by the target program. Starting with a complex stream, is there a trick in GRC to output integer WAV data? I think I recall a reference to doing a "mult const" but Goo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PFB mapping: M < N?

2017-12-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
-> M < N outputs with mapping, and the reverse. I'm happy to share if you'd like to try them out. Cheers! - MLD On Mon, Dec 4, 2017, at 10:54 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I find the documentation about PFB channel mapping to be confusing. I've extracted it below. The first pa

[Discuss-gnuradio] PFB mapping: M < N?

2017-12-04 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I find the documentation about PFB channel mapping to be confusing. I've extracted it below. The first paragraph seems to say the channel map has to have as many elements "M" as the number of outputs "N". But the second and third paragraphs talk about cases where M < N, and only "M out of N

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing channel power at desired rate

2017-12-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
55 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: My current project is analyzing the strength of signals in each channel of the AM broadcast band from a recording made during the recent solar eclipse.  The goal is to see if the eclipse caused propagation changes leading to additional stations "popping up&q

[Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing channel power at desired rate

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
My current project is analyzing the strength of signals in each channel of the AM broadcast band from a recording made during the recent solar eclipse. The goal is to see if the eclipse caused propagation changes leading to additional stations "popping up" out of the noise. Thanks to help fro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks, Sylvain! On 12/01/2017 11:19 AM, Sylvain Munaut wrote: By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try to set a size of 16384 -- but will accept 16383. Probably related to the size of the buffers or something like that. Is using a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
error does GNU Radio throw (that's the critical piece of info!).. There's no restriction of FFT sizes. Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:28 -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks! The mailing list seems to have been clogged up overnight, so after posting I did some experiments and found that an FFT of 100 bins to match 100 samples/second worked just fine and gives me exactly what I want -- nicely spaced results at 1 second intervals. On 12/01/2017 11:19 AM, Syl

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try to set a size of 16384 -- but will accept 16383. In some cases, I'd like to match FFT size to sample rate. For example, with a 100 sample/second rate, I'd like to use a 100 bin FFT to (hopefu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 11/30/2017 02:08 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: [ snip ] You can do that (obviously, it works!), but I'd recommend you just use a channelizer with N=125 instead of 117! Your channel map can be used to ignore the channels you don't need (which seem to be the 4 upper and lower "edge" ones),

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-11-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
And the resampler did the trick.  Carriers are now nicely aligned.  Thanks again! On Nov 29, 2017, 4:48 PM, at 4:48 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >Hi Marcus -- > >First, thanks for catching the typo in the channel map. There was no >plan to skip any channels; the goal is to get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-11-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
0 0 0 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] through a length=117*8 IFFT, and push the result (after a vector-to- stream) through your channelizer. You should see single tones in all your channels. (The different amplitudes might help telling them apart). Do they end up in the center of your bins? Best re

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio clock coherence?

2017-11-15 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 11/14/2017 02:20 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: My real question is whether it's safe to assume that a flowgraph is entirely clocked by the samples from its hardware source, and consequently that processing within the flowgraph (e.g., oscillator and mixer for tuning) does not introduce potentia

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio clock coherence?

2017-11-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
What is the clock source for a Gnuradio "internal" source such as the Signal Source block? If there is no hardware device connected, is the block ultimately driven by the PC clock? Then, if there is a hardware source (SDR) as well as an internal source, does the hardware source provide the ma

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Change filter parameters in running flowgraph?

2017-11-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
OK, bummer but thanks for the clarification. On 11/02/2017 01:58 PM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: For the most part, decimation cannot be changed at runtime, due to the way the scheduler does static allocation and buffer management. On 2017-11-02 13:05, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm ge

[Discuss-gnuradio] Change filter parameters in running flowgraph?

2017-11-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm getting ready to do a Gnuradio tutorial for a local group, and want to show the impact of decimation and filtering. I created a QT Gui Range parameter that sets the ID "decimation". In the low pass filter block I the decimation value is set to "decimation." That seems to work and I can s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-osmocom make failing

2017-09-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
For what it's worth -- This isn't a brand-new problem. I reported it here and on the osmocom-sdr list[1] back in June. There were responses on the osmocom list, none that resolved the problem, and I never was able to fix it myself. I suspect it's related to the addition of the seemingly-inn

[Discuss-gnuradio] "Frame Rate" in log_power_fft (and other blocks)

2017-09-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am trying to figure out the "frame rate" as used in log_power_fft and "update period" used in the QT GUI sinks. I'm trying to generate one output from both QT waterfall and log_power_fft every 60 seconds. I've tried setting the "frame rate" in log_power_fft to both 60 and the reciprocal 0.0

[Discuss-gnuradio] Averaging in QT Waterfall

2017-09-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am working with a large and long (8 hour) data set. My goal is to show changes in propagation over time -- in particular, further analysis of my solar eclipse RF captures. I want to show the whole 8 hours on a the waterfall without scrolling, which means I need to write a line to the displa

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio and Solar Eclipse

2017-08-31 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
As part of the HamSci (http://hamsci.org) solar eclipse experiment I recorded a bunch of IQ data from HF radio during the eclipse, using Gnuradio (plus the gr-hpsdr and gr-digital_rf modules) for all signal processing. A Red Pitaya running at 2.5 Msamples/sec recorded the entire AM broadcast

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Freqency Sink vs. Log Power FFT values

2017-08-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
wrote: On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 1:57 PM, John Ackermann N8UR <mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I also have a QT Frequency Sink as eye candy, and notice that its display is about 6dB different than the Log Power FFT output. I can think of a number of reasons why that could be, but my

[Discuss-gnuradio] QT Freqency Sink vs. Log Power FFT values

2017-08-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm doing a simple flowgraph to determine the peak value (dBFS) within an FFT. The Log Power FFT sends vectors to a Max block which outputs the result -- it seems to be working reasonably well. I also have a QT Frequency Sink as eye candy, and notice that its display is about 6dB different th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-27 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
. Leech wrote: That change has been made to the build-gnuradio git repo Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2017, at 5:29 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: For at least the last couple of days, the build-gnuradio script has been failing almost immediately after it starts fetching, claiming that it "

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Should have done this first, but I went to git.gnuradio.org with my browser and got a "bad certificate" error. The cert is valid for a number of gnuradio.org sites, but not git.gnuradio.org. John On 06/23/2017 05:29 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: For at least the last coup

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
For at least the last couple of days, the build-gnuradio script has been failing almost immediately after it starts fetching, claiming that it "could not find gnuradio/gnuradio-[core,runtime] after GIT checkout." I changed the URL in the script from git.gnuradio.org to github.org and that work

[Discuss-gnuradio] Error building gr-osmocom in recent pull

2017-06-16 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I just did "build-gnuradio" on a new machine and am getting a failure in the rtl_build function that wasn't present previously. In rtl_source_c.cc, line 224, the build fails with: error: 'rtlsdr_set_bias_tee' was not declared in this scope ret = rtlsdr_set_bias_tee(_dev, bias_tee); Any sugg

[Discuss-gnuradio] OP25

2017-06-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I spent some time fiddling with the OP25 P25 trunking scanner software, and with a lot of help from the guys on the op25-dev mailing list got it working pretty well. The "how to get it to do something useful" part isn't too well documented, so I thought I would document the config steps and fi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
owever, you're asking about resampling: Well, resamplers do exist :) ! We've got a totally different problem, though: To resample properly, you'd need to know (or better: estimate) the clock error. On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:47 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Benny -- As I mentioned in another message, I'm struggling with the RF-audio interface now. Do you have any example code for your suggestion that I might play with (in my mind, the idea would be an "audio synchronizer" block that would take input at the nominal audio rate and output at the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I don't have a view whether an audio synchronizer (is that the right term?) is appropriate for GSoC, but it's a problem that's biting me right now. I'm doing a multi-channel nbfm receiver with a polyphase channelizer that feeds a bunch of power squelch/nbfm demod blocks, with the audio streams

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bus ports problem -- issue from 2016?

2017-06-03 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I've started experimenting with the bus port capability, using 3.7.11.1. The QT GUI Frequency Sink creates a bus with one more port than the number required (possibly a hidden message port). This was reported as a bug last year, and still seems to be a problem. Is a fix for this on the horiz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer mapping

2017-06-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
is 0, the lowest channel is nchannels/2 + 1 or so... I think your mapping could have 4 on the end to get the whole sequence. On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:25 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: Is there a basic rule for how to assign channel numbers to the PFB channelizer

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer mapping

2017-06-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Is there a basic rule for how to assign channel numbers to the PFB channelizer output? I seem to be too dense to figure it out from the docs. I just want to pull the channels out in order of their RF frequency, low to high. I currently have a 7 channel channelizer which seems to work properl

[Discuss-gnuradio] "LED" GUI widget?

2017-05-25 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'd like to have an indicator in the GUI (just a small circle is fine) light up when a Power Squelch block opens -- basically, an "in use" signal. Is there a Qt widget that can do that, and is there a way to probe the Power Squelch for its state? (I'd like to do this within GRC if possible.)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-24 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
at did you use as argument for firdes.lowpass()?) Best regards, Marcus On 05/24/2017 04:38 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Here's the whole flowgraph. Once I get the code functioning, I'm planning to clean this up, maybe add a few more channels, and make it easier to customize -- so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
se, using a higher sampling rate might make >the problem more manageable. If you'd share the first half of your flow >graph, we could discuss options for that! > >Best regards, > >Marcus > >[1] http://gnuradio.org/blog/buffers > > >On 23.05.2017 22:04, John Ack

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
#x27;t allow that choice. John On 05/23/2017 02:51 PM, Kevin Reid wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:31 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I'm continuing to work on a multi-channel NBFM receiver using the polyphase filter. I have the basic system workin

[Discuss-gnuradio] Big GRC flowgraphs

2016-06-09 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm working on a flowgraph that has a lot of blocks (sets of identical blocks for 16+ channels). What's the best way to manage this on-screen in GRC? Can GRC handle multiple sheets, or is there a way to group a bunch of blocks into a "superblock" that shows in the flowgraph as a single block?

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gradual loss of amplitude as flowgraph runs

2015-08-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Still working with the polyphase channelizer program. While everything "works", there is something very strange: the output amplitude slowly drops the longer the program runs. As near I can tell, this happens in or following the frequency translating FFT block. To test, I stripped the flowgr

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer demonstration

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I've put a short video of my tweaked version of Chris' NOAA radio channelizer demo on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/mTUSVNdCxa4 The screen capture didn't get the drop-down box when I changed channels, but if you look at the upper-left corner you'll see the channel change every few seconds. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "D" errors after flowgraph runs for some time

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
cleaned things up. Revised .grc file attached. John On 08/08/2015 02:56 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I am playing with a slightly modified version of Chris Kuethe's channelizer example for NOAA radio stations (my version attached). I'm using 3.7.6.1. The program runs just fi

[Discuss-gnuradio] "D" errors after flowgraph runs for some time

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am playing with a slightly modified version of Chris Kuethe's channelizer example for NOAA radio stations (my version attached). I'm using 3.7.6.1. The program runs just fine for the first 20-30 minutes on my I7-4710HQ laptop. System monitor shows typically one core running at about 50% w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT plot unit

2015-08-03 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
It might be helpful to clarify that since this is a voltage ratio, it's 20log rather than the 10log used for power (e.g., doubling voltage is 6dB, doubling power is 3dB), so the scaling will look different than a typical spectrum analyzer. (It would be nice if the instrumentation blocks could

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks! On 08/02/2015 03:11 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote: That's because of the first LPF - I made it kind of tight. If you change it from noaa_band_width to oversampled_width, that droop goes away. On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:06 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: One more thing -- it appears tha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
n Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:18 PM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: Hi Chris -- Using the variables, I now have the program working in general. The channel mapping gave me some nightmares, though. I finally decided that you need two maps -- one for the channe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
band_width / 2, noaa_chan_width, firdes.WIN_HAMMING, 6.76) On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Thanks much for this, Chris! I look forward to playing with it, but... When I load the flowgraph on my GRC 3.7.6.1 system, I get a "Missing Block" error for each of l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks much for this, Chris! I look forward to playing with it, but... When I load the flowgraph on my GRC 3.7.6.1 system, I get a "Missing Block" error for each of lpf_taps and pbf_taps, triggering errors in the xfft and channelizer blocks. I also had an error in the "Multiply Const" block

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
> This is on the developers radar, I know because I've had discussions about it > with them in the past. They need more Gui programming help however. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 18, 2015, at 11:16 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >> >> Hi Marcus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
id in which you can place the GUI elements, and specify how many rows and columns the individual elements span [1]? Best regards, Marcus [1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioCompanion#Example On 05/18/2015 07:40 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I have a flowgraph that inclu

[Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I have a flowgraph that includes a couple of sliders and a frequency display below. On a fairly low-res screen (1280x1024), I'm seeing that the flowchart GUI is fitting itself to the size of the screen, but the individual components don't all fit without a vertical scroll bar. I'd like to el

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio uhd build failure

2015-05-04 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
or SDR systems being demo'd at our Hamvention booth (the convention center is pretty much a Faraday cage). Tests suggest it's going to work really well. John > On May 4, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:18 AM, John Ackermann N

[Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio uhd build failure

2015-04-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm trying to put gnuradio on a fresh installation of Linux Mint 17.1, 64 bit. The build-gnuradio script was downloaded from SBRAC last night. I get throught the prerequisites and git fetch OK, but when the "Building UHD..." step begins, it immediately exits with "UHD build apparently failed.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOK modulation naming

2015-04-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Why not make the ratio 1:3 and then you could call it Morse PWM. :-) On 4/2/2015 2:16 PM, Michael Ossmann wrote: A friend recently showed me an OOK modulation that I had never seen before, and I'm wondering if anyone knows a name for this scheme. It is PWM where both the on periods and off peri

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bins smaller than pixels. was: WX GUI FFT Sink Performance

2013-05-28 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 5/28/2013 1:28 PM, Simon IJskes wrote: On 17-05-13 02:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Again, given the fact that your display geometry is likely less than 1280 wide, you'll simply lose information for FFTs larger than that. I one is looking for weak CW signals, in a waterfall, wouldn't a wide b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bootable CD with Gnuradio/GRC?

2012-09-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 9/12/2012 12:15 PM, Michael Ossmann wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:43:42PM -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Does anyone know of an image for a bootable Ubuntu or other Linux distro CD with the GRC stuff installed that's available for download? The new Pentoo iso includes a GNU

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bootable CD with Gnuradio/GRC?

2012-09-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 9/12/2012 1:02 PM, Rafael Diniz wrote: Debian wheezy also has gnuradio packages in it's repository. Best, Rafael Diniz Thanks, but I was really looking for a bootable CD image with the packages already installed so you can run GRC right from the CD. The idea is to let people follow along

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bootable CD with Gnuradio/GRC?

2012-09-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 9/12/2012 2:28 AM, Alexandru Csete wrote: [ snip ] Hi John, If you have a fresh debian/ubuntu install with GNU Radio & dependencies, you can use Remasteresys to create a bootable and redistributable copy of the installation: http://www.remastersys.com/ Not sure if it can be on a CD though.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bootable CD with Gnuradio/GRC?

2012-09-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
We're going to be doing a Gnuradio tutorial in conjunction with a ham radio conference next week and I'd like to hand out a bootable Gnuradio Companion CD so the attendees can follow along on their laptop. I know Ettus has the USB drive environment, but we can't afford to hand out thumb drives

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] argggg .. WBX Front end issues

2012-04-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
A nearby lightning strike (but far from a direct hit) took out the LNA on my WBX last fall. I suspect that part of the reason was that the antenna I was using (a discone wide-band antenna mounted on the roof) is not DC grounded and thus can develop a good sized charge. An anecdote: many years

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP-->Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
you) and float everything to somewhere around 60V -Original Message- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+evan=syndetix@gnu.org] On Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 1:45 PM To: George Nychis Cc: d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP-->Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

2012-02-21 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 2/21/2012 3:00 PM, George Nychis wrote: Okay! So apparently there is some interest in power line communication for GSoC. But, what we would want to do is already have a safe way of connecting the USRP in to the wall socket for the student(s), and for the future of GNU Radio and USRP power li

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Polyphase Channelizer examples?

2011-10-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:51 PM, "Marcus D. Leech" wrote: >> >> >> Also, looking at your flow-graph, all of the channels are effectively at >> baseband, so if you have two or more channels come up at the same > time, they'll collide--was that the intent? No, I was afraid that might be the case

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Polyphase Channelizer examples?

2011-10-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Marcus D. Leech said the following on 10/14/2011 01:18 PM: On 14/10/2011 12:53 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Doesn't the PFB channelizer down-sample as well? So your output sample rates from the channelizer will be mis-matched to the UHD USRP sink? That's what I'm trying to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Polyphase Channelizer examples?

2011-10-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Marcus D. Leech said the following on 10/14/2011 12:32 PM: I have to wonder, though, John, whether your "scheme" for saving power in a linear transponder is actually going to be workable. Yes, you'll squelch the "no signal" channels going into the transponder, but that is only the difference be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Polyphase Channelizer examples?

2011-10-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Tom Rondeau said the following on 10/14/2011 12:01 PM: John, You've almost got it right except for the taps. The "taps" parameter is the FIR taps of the prototype filter, which then gets partitioned among the N channels of the channelizer. While there is no example in GRC readily available, you

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC Polyphase Channelizer examples?

2011-10-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Is there a (hopefully simple) example of using the polyphase channelizer block in grc? I'm trying to do a simple case of dividing a 250 kHz wide stream from USRP into a small number (initially 4) of contiguous channels. Given my generally ignorant status, I'm stumped on setting the parameters

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC squelch block with separate control signal?

2011-09-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Tom Rondeau said the following on 09/06/2011 11:28 AM: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I want to implement the equivalent of a carrier-operated relay -- a squelch block that provides an "on" signal at a threshold

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC squelch block with separate control signal?

2011-09-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I want to implement the equivalent of a carrier-operated relay -- a squelch block that provides an "on" signal at a threshold input signal level, which then passes or blocks data at some point further downstream rather than right at the point where the sensing is happening. Are there GRC block

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit filtering

2011-09-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 09/05/2011 01:10 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/09/11 12:55 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Hi Marcus -- I am selecting complex taps from the drop down, but still get an error at runtime if either cutoff frequency is 0 or smaller. Thanks, John I just tried it, and it works just

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transmit filtering

2011-09-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Marcus -- I am selecting complex taps from the drop down, but still get an error at runtime if either cutoff frequency is 0 or smaller. Thanks, John On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:46 AM, "Marcus D. Leech" wrote: > On 05/09/11 10:19 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >> I&#x

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