[Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Brain
Hi, Is there any way of calibrating out or mitigating the carrier at the WBX tx frequency? I am sending a wideband signal and the carrier (which I assume is due to dc coupling in the WBX) is at a significant level compared to my signal. - Charles Kit USRP2 - WBX - UHD http://www.g4guo.blog

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:17, Charles Brain wrote: > Is there any way of calibrating out or mitigating the carrier at the WBX tx > frequency? I am sending > a wideband signal and the carrier (which I assume is due to dc coupling in > the WBX) is at a significant level compared to my signal. Thi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Brain
Hi Johnathan, You can offset the carrier with UHD by passing a 2nd parameter in the set_tx_freq call. Unfortunately it only seems to work with small offsets, far too small to take it outside the passband of my signal. :-( It was not so much of a problem with my DVB-S code but I am now playing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:53, Charles Brain wrote: > You can offset the carrier with UHD by passing a 2nd parameter > in the set_tx_freq call. Unfortunately it only seems to work with small > offsets, far too small to take it outside the passband of my > signal. :-( I haven't had the opportunit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Brain
Hi Johnathan, I tried an offset of 10 MHz and the output on the spectrum analyser looks frazzled, it no longer looked clean. Funnily enough the satellite receiver still managed to lock to the signal. I am fiddling about with an anti aliasing filter at the moment but when I have that sorted I wil

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Brain
Well I have had another look at the offset stuff. What seems to be happening is that when you apply an offset you have to scale back the max IQ values being sent to the USRP2. I get this situation. No LO offset, great raised cosine shaped QPSK signal Add LO offset, QPSK signal looks awful. R

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Matt Ettus
On 05/25/2010 03:17 AM, Charles Brain wrote: Hi, Is there any way of calibrating out or mitigating the carrier at the WBX tx frequency? I am sending a wideband signal and the carrier (which I assume is due to dc coupling in the WBX) is at a significant level compared to my signal. What Johnat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-05-25 Thread Matt Ettus
On 05/25/2010 07:40 AM, Charles Brain wrote: Well I have had another look at the offset stuff. What seems to be happening is that when you apply an offset you have to scale back the max IQ values being sent to the USRP2. I get this situation. No LO offset, great raised cosine shaped QPSK signa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-06-01 Thread Charles Brain
3 - Measure the amplitude of the TX DC offset as received by the RX (in this case at -1 MHz). Iteratively adjust your I TX DC offset number until you get to the lowest power you can see. Then do the same for Q. If it still isn't low enough, do I again. Matt Hi Matt, Are the settings for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Carrier leakage on transmit

2010-06-01 Thread Matt Ettus
On 06/01/2010 03:41 AM, Charles Brain wrote: 3 - Measure the amplitude of the TX DC offset as received by the RX (in this case at -1 MHz). Iteratively adjust your I TX DC offset number until you get to the lowest power you can see. Then do the same for Q. If it still isn't low enough, do I again.