Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Florian - Interesting observation about better reception when using larger bandwidths. I tried it out, and yes indeed they do seem better at 1 MS/s compared with 250 or 500 kS/s -- meaning that more packets are received correctly at the higher rate than the lower rates. I didn't try 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Hi Florian - Interesting observation about better reception when using larger bandwidths. I tried it out, and yes indeed they do seem better at 1 MS/s compared with 250 or 500 kS/s -- meaning that more packets are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers, too, have a larger bandwidth. The coarse frequency correction is only set to look at so large an offset based on a number of subcarriers (+/-5 or 10), so now with the same frequency

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers, too, have a larger bandwidth. The coarse frequency correction is only set to look at so large an offset based on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Dickens
On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: Are you seeing the 1 MHz offset when you use the uhd_siggen.py? Or is it just with the OFDM transmitter? I do see it with uhd_siggen.py. Didn't know about that utility; cool! - MLD ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Schlembach
Are you seeing the 1 MHz offset when you use the uhd_siggen.py? Or is it just with the OFDM transmitter? What is this tool doing? Transmitting a sine and checking the offset. Sorry, for the moment I have no possibilitie to check that. It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Florian Schlembach
There is a coarse and a fine frequency offset correction. The fine correct makes sure that the subcarrier is centered in the bin; the coarse adjusts for an integer number of subcarriers off from the center frequency. By default, the OFDM receiver will correct for some number of subcarrier bins

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread mleech
Although using the same device to check on said carrier as is transmitting it leads to compounding error in one direction or t'other. Best to use another device (preferrably a lab spectrum analyser) to check the offset. -Marcus On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:30 -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote: On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Florian Schlembach florian.schlemb...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: There is a coarse and a fine frequency offset correction. The fine correct makes sure that the subcarrier is centered in the bin; the coarse adjusts for an integer number of subcarriers off from the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-20 Thread Florian Schlembach
I highly suspect it's user error :) but I'm truly at a loss right now as to the error. Michael, we encountered a very similar issue and spent already a lot of time on that. Configuration is the same except we are using an USRP2 though. We also did not receive anything at the RX side

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Benchmark Tx Issue?

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Dickens
I've been playing with the gr-digital OFDM benchmark, Tx - Rx, and have an odd issue that seems to be coming from within GNU Radio itself, not UHD. My setup is: Mac OS X 10.6.8, latest UHD and GNU Radio from their respective GIT masters, XCode 3.2.3 (gcc 4.2.1). I'm using 2 USRP1's, each