[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-25 Thread William Sherman
Hi, I managed to get the board to transmit at the frequency I want by reverting to the db_xcvr2450 code existing before Changeset 10853 (r10400, r10165) [see http://gnuradio.org/trac/changeset/10853]. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Di

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-23 Thread William Sherman
I would also like to report that when running >>> � $ usrp_sigggen.py -f 2.45G --const -a 8000 I get a big peak at 2.58GHz when looking at the plug connected to subdev (0,0) on the spectrum analyzer, and a smaller peak at 2.58Ghz when looking at (0,1). The mux setting the program automatically

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-23 Thread William Sherman
OK I just did a full fresh reinstall of 3.2 (redownloaded from http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/Download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.2.tar.gz) onto my NetBSD machine and I still get: Johnathan Corgan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 14:08, William Sherman >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-23 Thread William Sherman
Johnathan Corgan wrote: > Can you elaborate on how you installed 3.2, and whether there was a > prior installation before that? If so, did you uninstall it first > before installing 3.2? Previously I had v3.1.3 installed. This was uninstalled (all packages removed) before installing v3.2 followi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-22 Thread William Sherman
Eric Blossom wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:30:26AM +0200, William Sherman wrote: >> The xcvr transmits at the incorrect frequency. I just looked at it with >> a wider span of the spectrum analyser. Asking it to transmit at 2.45GHz, >> it instead transmits signals at 2

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-21 Thread William Sherman
The xcvr transmits at the incorrect frequency. I just looked at it with a wider span of the spectrum analyser. Asking it to transmit at 2.45GHz, it instead transmits signals at 2.58GHz. What could be causing this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. __

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-16 Thread William Sherman
Here is my console output for a transmit program: The XCVR2450 doesn't transmit. python rx2_pu_tx.py -f 2.4G xcvr2450: Setting reg 2 to 30072 xcvr2450: Setting reg 5 to 38225 xcvr2450: Setting reg 5 to 38A25 xcvr2450: Setting reg 6 to 4006 xcvr2450: Setting reg 7 to 627 xcvr2450: Setting reg 8 to

[Discuss-gnuradio] xcvr2450, v3.2 and usrp1

2009-06-15 Thread William Sherman
Hi I am using Gnuradio v3.2 and usrp1. I was using modified examples\digital\transmit_path, receive_path to send and receive packets on the RFX2400. This was working alright. I wanted more transmit power (+ adjustable gain) so I exchanged the RFX2400 boards for XCVR2450 boards. However when I run

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Further explain about receiving packets using 2 daughter

2009-05-16 Thread William Sherman
William Sherman wrote: > Ok the problem was I set my decimation too high (256), even though on > the faq it says I can go [8, 256]. I tried it with 128 and it worked. Yet I am able to receive packets generated by my own usrp (usrp transmits and receives its own packet) correctly

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Further explain about receiving packets using 2 daughter

2009-05-16 Thread William Sherman
Ok the problem was I set my decimation too high (256), even though on the faq it says I can go [8, 256]. I tried it with 128 and it worked. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lis

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Further explain about receiving packets using 2 daughter

2009-05-13 Thread William Sherman
I'm encountering the same problem over where I am, and have come to the same conclusion. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Demod not working with Deinterleave

2009-05-13 Thread William Sherman
Bump -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Demod not working with Deinterleave

2009-05-13 Thread William Sherman
Hi. 1) I have modified benchmark_rx.py/receive_path.py to allow it to receive two channels from two RFX2400 daughterboards (I aim to use the second channel for sensing). As suggested by the examples/mailing list, I inserted a deinterleave block after the source to retrieve streams from each chann

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Lowpass filter in receive_path.py

2009-05-12 Thread William Sherman
no I don't understand this either. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: How can I set mux for two daughterboards(rfx 400 and rfx

2009-05-11 Thread William Sherman
Ling Huang wrote: > set.mux(0x32103210) Dude, how do you calculate the Mux value you need? For instance what's the maths behind calculating the mux for two RFX2400 daughterboards? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailin

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-04 Thread William Sherman
Hmm: I have a working program which has a USRP perform TX & RX on the one radio, using transmit_path & receive_path. With two USRPs I can do RTS/CTS and transmit a packet with ACK. My receive_path was not picking up its own transmit_path's packet transmissions erroneously. This was even though

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-04 Thread William Sherman
and how are you supposed to use these mblocks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-04 Thread William Sherman
The more I think about the more I think how impossible it is. David Tisza wrote: > And there are more efficient ways to determine where the packet started > and where it ended in a stream than just appending 0-s at the end, if > you still want to use the conventional streaming concept of the gnura

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-04 Thread William Sherman
David Tisza wrote: > You could, but how do you define your concept of a packet "had been > transmitted" ? This: > is it when your signal waveform's end is converted into electromagnetic > wave at the antenna > -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-03 Thread William Sherman
Well that certainly makes things trickier. Thinking through the problem: couldn't you detect when the packet had been transmitted by inserting a packet of 'voltage 0's' after your real packet into transmit_path's flowgraph. Then you could poll the msgq in message_source until the queue is empty

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Packet Transmission

2009-05-03 Thread William Sherman
transmit_path as in from gnuradio-examples/transmit_path.py used in benchmark_tx.py. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Packet Transmission

2009-05-03 Thread William Sherman
Hi, My question is: is there a way in gnuradio to know if transmit_path has finished transmitting a packet? I was just reading a thesis by Alice Crohas where she implements a cognitive radio. Her transmitter uses transmit_path to transmit packets in Gnuradio. A power detector is used to detect pr

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: About Latency

2009-04-30 Thread William Sherman
never mind just realized -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: About Latency

2009-04-30 Thread William Sherman
Hi, Where did he get this equation from? (What is this equation f?) > Hi Eric: > > I have already read that paper before. As that paper mentions, the USB > delay > is according to the equation > > f(512, fusb_block_size*fusb_nblock) > - > fs*sample_size

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Definition of USB Interfaces is different in Windows

2009-04-25 Thread William Sherman
Hi. I am having a similar problem getting two USRPs to run on one computer on NetBSD. gnuradio can only run one USRP at a time. It can only run USRP #0 and when I create a usrp source/sink with which=1 it says "Unable to find USRP #1". Are you saying more needs to be done than specifying which

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Dynamically changing parameters of a block

2009-04-21 Thread William Sherman
I also have been having trouble trying to dynamically change the parameter of a block. In this case the amplitude of the sine wave in usrp_siggen.py (gr.sig_source_f). I use the set amplitude function of the top_block to change the amplitude in my main loop. However, observing the spectrum usi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: gr-howto-write-a-block

2009-04-17 Thread William Sherman
George Nychis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, William Sherman > wrote: > >> Do I need to building gr-howto-write-a-block-3.1.3 from inside the >> gnuradio directory instead of just some random directory where it is >> currently located? >> > > Th

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gr-howto-write-a-block

2009-04-16 Thread William Sherman
OK I fixed the error in my Makefile which was giving me the make error. However I have run into another problem. python doesn't pick up the new block when I try to run a python program. I use, from gnuradio import howto but the new block is not recognised. Why would this be? Do I need to buildi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gr-howto-write-a-block

2009-04-02 Thread William Sherman
ting. Googling this it appears to be related with where make tries to locate libraries / directory it makes the library to? Does anyone know why the make install fails and I can't make a new block? Martin Braun wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:55:39AM +0200, William Sherman wrote: >&

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Using one USRP

2009-04-01 Thread William Sherman
Michael Dickens wrote: > Hi Ali - Check out the following MS thesis, by a ex-colleague of mine > here at ND: > > Practical Implementation of a Cognitive Radio System for Dynamic > Spectrum Access > > < http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07252008-162749/ > > > It sounds similar to what

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-howto-write-a-block

2009-04-01 Thread William Sherman
Hi, I have been trying to create a new block "howto_ren_bin_statistics_mean_f" using the howto example as the base. I have created a .cc, .h, edited the howto.i and edited the Makefile.am. The block successfully "compiles" after calling automake -> ./configure -> make, and .la, howto.cc, howto.p

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Tx & Rx in one USRP

2009-03-26 Thread William Sherman
Thank you, I understand there can only be one top block, but it can have multiple flowgraphs inside it. What if I wanted to change the parameters of just one of the flowgraphs during runtime? Would I need to kill off the whole top block, create another one with changes made to the one flowgraph

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tx & Rx in one USRP

2009-03-24 Thread William Sherman
Hi, I want to use one USRP to transmit and receive. I tried setting up two flowgraphs (top_blocks), one that will be a receiver "thread" and another a transmitter "thread". However the program complains: RuntimeError: gr_top_block_impl: multiple simultaneous gr_top_blocks not allowed Is there no

[Discuss-gnuradio] 802.11 for Gnuradio?

2009-03-15 Thread William Sherman
Hi, I am interested in using USRP + Gnuradio as a Cognitive Radio. I wish to apply learning algorithms to an 802.11 style MAC and evaluate the response of the radio for using unused spectra. Is there an 802.11 style MAC protocol (i.e. RTS/CTS) for Gnuradio out there? I could begin using this as a

[Discuss-gnuradio] benchmark_xx Packets

2009-03-09 Thread William Sherman
Hi, I am planning to modify benchmark_xx to send and receive custom packets (similar to 802.11 packets). I have been rooting around these two files. I would like to know: in benchmark_rx how does the radio "know" when it has received a packet (and call rx_callback). rx_callback is called by pkt.p

[Discuss-gnuradio] Testing Whether USRP Can Transmit

2009-03-01 Thread William Sherman
I am working with a USRP1. I eventually will want to transmit and receive data packets between USRP1s, but right now I am getting to grips with the system. I am currently trying out the benchmark_tx, benchmark_rx programs. I call benchmark_rx on my USRP1's LFRX-LF daughterboard and leave it runni