[Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Pablo Fernández Alonso
In the FM receiver: Why a LPF is used instead of a BPF in order to select the Radio channel that we want to hear? That is the only part I don't understand. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
In the FM receiver: Why a LPF is used instead of a BPF in order to select the Radio channel that we want to hear? That is the only part I don't understand. Hello Pablo, Let's say you are trying to receive an FM signal centered around 100MHz. In other words, the signal of interest is from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Aditya Dhananjay
To continue: It is always easier to process signals in baseband (centered around 0) than it is to process RF signals (due to the high sampling rates required). Given that the bandwidth you are interested in is in the order of 100kHz (typical of FM radio signals), it is easy to see why radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/11/2014 11:22 AM, Pablo Fernández Alonso wrote: In the FM receiver: Why a LPF is used instead of a BPF in order to select the Radio channel that we want to hear? That is the only part I don't understand. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LPF in FM receiver

2014-02-11 Thread Marcus Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Aditya, Hi Pablo, the multiples-of-carrier-frequency problem is being solved in hardware (you can't do this in software, since mixing is still analog domain). Anyway, as Aditya explained, since you are processing baseband signals, a lowpass is