Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Software Defined Radar

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Hill
on academic papers to make it easier for > others to find: > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/AcademicPapers > > Tom > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Last year I did was working on a uni paper

[Discuss-gnuradio] Software Defined Radar

2013-05-24 Thread Michael Hill
Hi All, Last year I did was working on a uni paper looking at developing a generic software-defined radar transmitter using GNU Radio as part of a university submission. The gnu radio list was instrumental to me learning about Software Defined Radio, getting my USRP N210 up and running and helpin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two-Tone Test Results (Transmitting)

2012-09-24 Thread Michael Hill
Hey David, Thanks very much, your inputs be a great help! Cheers -Michael On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, David Bengtson wrote: > Comment's interspersed below. > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Thanks for the r

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two-Tone Test Results (Transmitting)

2012-09-10 Thread Michael Hill
Apologies that copy paste formatting was attrocious..! Data attached in file. P.S. earlier I meant to say f1 = 4MHz and f2 = 5 MHz In the attached data m1 = 2*f1-f2 m2 = f1 m3 = f2 m4 = 2*f2-f1 thx! On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Michael Hill wrote: > > Can anyone provide any insigh

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Setting the XCVR2450 Bandwidth

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Hill
Awesome, thanks Josh - I'll give this a try tomorrow! On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 08/22/2012 06:11 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > Thanks Josh, > > > > I've still been toying with this though.. and aren't really havin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Setting the XCVR2450 Bandwidth

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Hill
spec amp? I assume by baseband filter, that you mean this is a digital filter that applies what I send from the CPU to the USRP.. Cheers -Michael On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 07/08/2012 04:28 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > Hi, > > > > T

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 Gain Calculations: AD8132 Low Cost High Speed Differential Amplifier

2012-08-21 Thread Michael Hill
Hi All, I'm looking at the parts of the XCVR2450 trying to do theoretical gain / noise calcs. My first question is... has anyone else done these? Do my numbers seem reasonable? Secondly.. I don't know what gain the AD8132 has.. it seems to offer G =1,2,5,10 according to page 15... Should I be ass

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Optimising performance of N210 + XCVR2450

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Hill
switch on the two output ports should > provide 30dB of isolation. It's possible isolation on the board itself > might cause some leakage too. > > Good luck and I hope this helps! > > -Dan > > > On 07/25/2012 05:30 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > I have a few que

[Discuss-gnuradio] Optimising performance of N210 + XCVR2450

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Hill
I have a few queries regarding some of the options for improving the performance of the XCVR2450 + N210. 1) The N210 can offer 50MSPS with 8 bit I&Q samples or 25MSPS with 16bit 1&Q. If using 16 bit I &Q samples, I'd just leave the UHD input block with "Complex int 16". How do I implement 8 bit I&

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Measurements

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hill
Hi All, I'm looking at how suitable USRPs are as potential transmitters. This is for a uni project.. I'm looking for avenues (heck you might even say simple exercises) of aspects I can investigate for the N210 + XCVR2450. With so much info available for the individual hardware components availabl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 Band Pass Filters & Frequencies

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hill
Hi Josh, Sorry for the belated reply! Yes it says 6GHz on the uhd_usrp_probe but i was just surprised given that the website said its limit was 5.9GHz. -Michael On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 07/01/2012 03:58 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > The X

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum Analyser Output from XCVR2450

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hill
dio, so the gains and > frequencies may not be perfectly calibrated. > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > I'm doing a bunch of testing on the USRP N210 with the XCVR2450. > > In particular i'm looking at areas where there is odd behaviour at

[Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum Analyser Output from XCVR2450

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Hill
I'm doing a bunch of testing on the USRP N210 with the XCVR2450. In particular i'm looking at areas where there is odd behaviour at extremes etc and at trying to put it in context. One thing i've started to notice is that as I step up the uhd gain the readings I get on the spectrum analyser do not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What is the LO Offset?

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Hill
Ah that makes sense! Thanks guys! -Michael On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 07/08/2012 08:52 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've toyed around a fair bit with the UHD_sink parameters for the target > > Centre Frequenc

[Discuss-gnuradio] What is the LO Offset?

2012-07-08 Thread Michael Hill
Hi All, I've toyed around a fair bit with the UHD_sink parameters for the target Centre Frequency, and in particular using the request command to set the centre freq and the LO Offset. But i can't seem to see any impact from the LO offset! E.g. IF = 5 MHz Target RF = 100MHz LO thus would equal 95

[Discuss-gnuradio] Setting the XCVR2450 Bandwidth

2012-07-08 Thread Michael Hill
Hi, This is a two part question 1) What are the XCVR2450 bandwidth options? I've looked at the website and discussion list threads on the matter and seen different answers on what the the bandwidth options are for the XCVR2450 daughterboard. The spec sheets seem to indicate different answers too.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timing & Sources

2012-07-01 Thread Michael Hill
.. As opposed to chopping a cosine with a vector of 1s and 0s or something... On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:47:01PM +0930, Michael Hill wrote: > > I've been through many GRC companion tutorials, which show how to get > vario

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 Band Pass Filters & Frequencies

2012-07-01 Thread Michael Hill
The XCVR 2450 covers frequencies around 2.4 GHz and 2.5 GHz and also 4.9 to 5.9 GHz. When running uhd_usrp_probe it said 2400 to 2700MHz! (E.g. I assume hardware performance drops off above 2.4 GHz but any reason why it didn't cap my frequency at 2400MHz?) http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/doc

[Discuss-gnuradio] Timing & Sources

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Hill
I've been through many GRC companion tutorials, which show how to get various sources up and running, but what if I want to have an input source that has a straight line or parabola where the value varies based on a time from a 0 to 5 count? Using existing blocks can I easily implement a formula

[Discuss-gnuradio] LFM Problems

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Hill
I'm using GRC v 3.6.0 and looking at what can be done with the standard library. Although I've been able to apply FM to a wave, I'm still having issues understanding how to manipulate the variables. There is a Frequency Modulation block.. but i'm a bit confused about what line 55 http://gnuradio.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Block & Specification Queries

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Hill
012 at 09:29:01PM +0930, Michael Hill wrote: > > **Amplitude Parameter > > > > The Amplitude parameter affects the Amplitude dB output, but from what > i've > > determined / read, it is only linear up to a certain level. > > > > E.g. I thought I read somewhere

[Discuss-gnuradio] Block & Specification Queries

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Hill
I have a 5 questions that are probably relatively straightforward so I thought it'd be easier to lump them all in together. Some of these have been touched on in some other disussion threads I found but I wanted to clarify the answers.. To put things in context, I am doing radar research and am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mono-Pulse for GRC 3.6.0

2012-06-15 Thread Michael Hill
Hi Jonathon, I was starting to suspect that was the case, thanks for clearing that up for me :) Cheers -Michael On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Johnathan Corgan < jcor...@corganenterprises.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > > >> I

[Discuss-gnuradio] Mono-Pulse for GRC 3.6.0

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Hill
Hi, I'm quite new to Linux / GNU Radio / these lists and am looking to generate Signal Pulses. It seems that gnuradio-radar-mono.py would be ideal for this but wasn't installed with my GRC 3.6 nor has it been updated for a long time. According to the documentation it requires a custom FPGA build t