Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] choice of antenna and daughter board

2011-03-03 Thread Mark J . Blair
Oops... I meant to send this to the list. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Mark J. Blair" > Date: March 3, 2011 6:38:46 PM PST > To: ranjini ram > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] choice of antenna and daughter board > > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:15 PM, ranjini

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] choice of antenna and daughter board

2011-03-03 Thread Mark J. Blair
rested in receiving? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IS USRP safe for the human body?

2011-02-12 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Feb 8, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > Do I sense a Marie Curie in the making? Remember, kids: It's not the volts that kill you. It's the amps. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available fro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Who actually *does* use GNU Radio?

2011-01-21 Thread Mark J. Blair
ware, I can see plenty of room in the SDR user base for hardware with different feature sets and price points. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list D

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] re: Low cost hardware option

2011-01-12 Thread Mark J. Blair
o tell people what they can and can't do with it. If I wanted to control its end use to that degree, then I wouldn't have released it in the first place. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: "Open-Hardware"

2011-01-11 Thread Mark J. Blair
orts of delightful hijinks with the mouse pointer. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: Need Advice for SDR choice

2011-01-03 Thread Mark J. Blair
e (though rare) on the surplus market, but I'm unaware of any of the original receiving equipment that has made it out to the hands of collectors. A SDR setup seems like a natural way to handle receiving the code burst and then either playing it back at low speed for manual decoding, or automati

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Maximum antenna input voltage on LFRX

2010-12-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
a multimeter won't properly measure RF voltage. You're probably just seeing 60 Hz power line noise, unless you're very close to a high-powered transmitter. If there's a 100kW broadcast transmitter next door, then all bets are off. :) (*) or any other value you can get your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WBX and USRP1 on GnuRadio 3.3

2010-10-17 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:27 PM, Ed Criscuolo wrote: > Is it possible to use a WBX daughtercard on a USRP1 with the > 3.3 stable release of GnuRadio Yes. I am presently using my WBX in my USRP with the 3.3 release of GNU Radio via macports on my Mac. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help with USRP wire?

2010-10-17 Thread Mark J. Blair
ntenna connectors on the WBX board are MMCX connectors. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Strange side-band when transmitting using WBX on USRP1

2010-10-13 Thread Mark J. Blair
ried several USRPS and several WBX boards and seen the same > problem on all of them. > We don't see it on the USRP2. Interesting. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] want to achieve the symbol rate to 270.833kb/s

2010-10-08 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:41 AM, dburg...@kestrelsp.com wrote: > We would have used 13 MHz, but the USRP-1 FPGA code fails to transmit for > clock rates below about 48 MHz. Does anybody know why this is? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available f

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-10-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
sages to clear out from my discuss-gnuradio inbox now... :) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] s/Eric/Tom/g

2010-09-10 Thread Mark J. Blair
I'm new here, but I can already tell that GNU Radio is Really Cool Stuff. Thank you for your great contributions, and I welcome our new overlord! -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread Mark J. Blair
l, but would be a lot of work. > -William > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:24 AM, William Cox wrote: > > Right now I'm thinking the easiest thing would be to keep everything the > > same, except remove the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Warning in usrp_benchmark_usb.py

2010-08-30 Thread Mark J. Blair
oftware is complaining that it couldn't identify the installed daughterboard(s), so their EEPROM(s) may need to be reprogrammed. There's some discussion of the EEPROMs here that might be helpful: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UsrpFAQDBoards -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X We

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread Mark J. Blair
That seems like a lot of effort and expense to make something just a little bit smaller. Now, if you could make the equivalent of a USRP + WBX board about the size of a pack of playing cards, and powered from the USB port, that would be quite interesting! -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: ht

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: making a small USRP board

2010-08-30 Thread Mark J. Blair
ngle, smaller board dedicated to a specific RF band? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
l isn't, but I think it's an unrelated error. When I run usrp_am_mw_rcv.py it complains: RuntimeError: gr_remez: insufficient extremals -- cannot continue > But, I'm glad you've gotten this far. - MLD Thanks! I didn't expect

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
er: found unconfigured usrp; needs firmware. ~/gnuradio% usrper -v get_hash0 hash: ???7???g8!?_Md ~/gnuradio% usrper -v set_hash0 deadbeef ~/gnuradio% usrper -v get_hash0 hash: deadbeef ~/gnuradio% While I don't know what any of those usrper commands are actually doing, at least they

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
libusb-legacy a try tonight (I don't have my USRP with me at work today). I'm sure I don't have a cable problem since I can transmit and receive signals with my USRP. Thanks for the suggestions! -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available fr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
libusb version. Before I used that flag everything would compile, but the usrp executables would fail to find a symbol they needed in libusb and then crash. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get dqpsk2 block?

2010-08-21 Thread Mark J. Blair
sing dependency. At this point, you're not so much having a gnuradio problem yet... you're still learning how to understand the output of the "configure" script, which is created by the Gnu Autoconf tools. It's kind of complicated, but once you get over the learning curve

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get dqpsk2 block?

2010-08-20 Thread Mark J. Blair
nt isn't building on your system, nothing that comes after it in the configuration script matters until you fix that, and the "--with-gruel" flag should tell it to give up immediately after deciding not to build gruel. By the way, you should only need to use sudo to run the fi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sma adapters?

2010-08-19 Thread Mark J. Blair
nstallation. I also do the same thing when I connect my outdoor discone antenna to my USRP. Both of them have thick feedlines (similar to RG8, LMR400, etc.) terminated with male N connectors, and that's a lot of mass and leverage to hang off a little SMA connector. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sma adapters?

2010-08-19 Thread Mark J. Blair
om cables in single quantity. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OCXO ' s

2010-08-17 Thread Mark J. Blair
ommunications applications. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG public key available from my web page. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

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

2010-08-17 Thread Mark J. Blair
sired for better holdover stability, but I figured that VCTCXO should be adequate for my needs. Does that architecture sound reasonable? If so, would anybody like to save me the trouble of designing and building it myself? ;) -- Mark J. Blair

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

2010-08-17 Thread Mark J. Blair
rnal reference isn't available, that would be even better. I've been thinking of designing something along these lines, but I won't complain if you do the hard work and I can just buy one from you. ;) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/ GnuPG p

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-14 Thread Mark J. Blair
g to connect to a socket. There are other examples which presently don't work for me, such as hfx2.py and usrp_am_mw_rcv.py... I'll try debugging those some more myself before I ask about them here. Have any of y'all seen these kinds of failures before? Thanks in advance