[Discuss-gnuradio] CVS tree broken?

2005-02-17 Thread Robert McGwier
gr-build/gnuradio-core has no Makefile.in when I check out the code. so ./for-all-dirs ../buildit 2>&1 | tee make.log fails in the gnuradio-core build. I stole the Makefile.in from 2.4 and hope that it doesn't blow. Bob N4HY ___ Discuss-gnuradi

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] CVS tree broken?

2005-02-17 Thread Robert McGwier
Same thing with usrp checkout. Anyway, with the old files Makefile.in, I have everything running and the USRP is display spectra from the SDR-1000 I/Q inputs. Onward and upward, Bob N4HY -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with audio extraction in NTSC

2005-02-17 Thread Robert McGwier
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RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] NBFM

2005-02-17 Thread Robert McGwier
In a really good NBFM receiver, where you are attempting to use it for voice communications, and hand helds are involved (say), it is important to have threshold effect improvement. This will improve intelligibility on important links such as official/government communications. This is done by u

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] CVS tree broken?

2005-02-18 Thread Robert McGwier
Eric: Everything is built and running and the behavior you described is exactly what I saw in the files downloaded from the links on the Wiki. When I did bootstrap/for-all-dirs, it blew with "No makefile.in" I copied the Makefile.in and all seemed to work. Athlon Dual MP and Suse 9.2. It took

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] No better

2005-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
Matt: What are the right versions and where is this list? I am running Suse 9.2 and it has all the SUSE updates. It has autoconf 2.9, automake 1.9.1, libtool 1.5.8 Anyway. Third time is the charm. Once again, for the heck of it after someone said to do bootstrap twice (so I did buildit twice

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling in the frequency domain

2005-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
Alberto: Glad to know you are here. I would not revert to the time domain. "Rename" the complex bins of your fft by performing a simple circular shift until the right bin is on zero. Apply the low pass filter in the frequency domain, IFFT and then downsample. Since these frequencies or bins a

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling in the frequency domain

2005-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
Ooops. Too hasty! 2^ (roof(log_2(N)) + 1) long FFT. Sorry. Bob N4HY -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:54 PM To: Alberto di Bene; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] No better

2005-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
I for-all-dirs buildit twice and almost everything worked without my having to copy the incorrect Makefile.in. The "do bootstrap twice" part of the buildit run twice did the trick. I agree with time skew. Mine is controlled to <50 ms by GPS. ;-). All is well now with one exception, when I atte

[Discuss-gnuradio] A great thing for when you just can't say no to WinBLOWS

2005-02-20 Thread Robert McGwier
I have just moved all of my software defined radio code away from the HORRID ABOMINATION that is Windows threading to posix threads. http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ The heart of the matter for real time code is that semaphores, mutexes, and threads are objects that are visible to all pr

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] burn-basic-eeprom not found

2005-02-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Raja: You have downloded the files from the this page? http://comsec.com/wiki?GnuRadio2.X I made the same mistake. If you are not getting the lastest and greatest using cvs you are making a mistake. Like you, I had broken code, and no eeprom burner until I downloaded from the cvs servers. h

[Discuss-gnuradio] Questions

2005-02-24 Thread Robert McGwier
I want to take four streams from the four channels of my basic RX's. I want to know that the blocks from the four gazintas will maintain synchrony. I will be doing coherent processing on the four inputs and this is critical. Bob ___ Discuss-gnuradi

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp* example consolidation

2005-02-26 Thread Robert McGwier
Eric: For many of the new directories, I had to do touch configure.ac and buildit manually. for-all-dirs would fail, period. gr-gsm-vocoder is a particularly example. It would never get passed the "no makefile.in" error with for-all-dirs. I tried doing for-all-dirs touch configure.ac this wo

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Makefile.in

2005-02-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Is this bug driving you crazy yet Eric? ;-) Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Vincent Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:08 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Makefile.in FYI, I just did a clean CVS checkout.

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Makefile.in

2005-02-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Same here but I have not tried JL's fix. I missed it somehow but that is what the archive is for! Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rahul Dhar Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:15 PM To: Matt Ettus Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Missing Makefile.in

2005-03-01 Thread Robert McGwier
Joshua: That was definitely the fix. I created a new user on my machine and downloaded a completely fresh copy. I deleted all the old stuff and moved it over. for-all-dirs ../buildit worked through all the directories to completion without an\ error. Thanks! Bob -Original Message-

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] signals/atsc question

2005-03-15 Thread Robert McGwier
I would like to do N, where N is larger than 4, correlators on the FPGA in order to do code acquisition for code division multiplexing. I would also like to do beam steering experiments on four channels. All involve multiplications and the lower the latency, the better. Then the question becomes

[Discuss-gnuradio] Query on GPS

2005-03-17 Thread Robert McGwier
Who is working on a GPS receiver for the USRP or other hardware in this project? I would like not to do duplication of effort. Bob ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] signals/atsc question

2005-03-17 Thread Robert McGwier
] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:34 AM To: Robert McGwier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] signals/atsc question Quoting Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to do N, where N is larger than 4, correlators on the FPGA > in order to do code acquisit

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Query on GPS

2005-03-20 Thread Robert McGwier
We can do this I am sure. I thank Dave and Krys for the advance work they have been doing when not many (any?) were "listening". If we allow the FPGA to do (carrier phase/code) (acquisition/tracking ) in a joint-detection process run on the FPGA, I believe we can do a 12 channel receiver. In addi

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] A question about the synchronization

2005-03-24 Thread Robert McGwier
For what purpose? If you are simply tuning a receiver to a new frequency and can take the I/Q baseband, then no synchrony is required. If you are attempting to demodulate QAM inside that I/Q channel, you are indeed required to do carrier and symbol tracking. Bob -Original Message- From

FW: [Discuss-gnuradio] Query on GPS

2005-03-26 Thread Robert McGwier
I meant to send it to the list. -Original Message- From: Robert McGwier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Query on GPS I agree. Brickle and I have been doing the automated recognition and configuration

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] BPSK, Costas loop

2005-03-31 Thread Robert McGwier
Is there some kind of list maintained somewhere about what needs work in this now huge body of code? "Everything" and "Nothing" are not answers. ;-). Bob ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module named wx

2005-04-15 Thread Robert McGwier
Fails at work on my SUSE 9.2 install and succeeds at home on my SUSE 9.2 install. Running python 2.3.4 at home and Python 2.4.1 at work. However, I just installed 2.4.1 at work. I got the same error messages before today with 2.3 first in the path. Having 2.4.1 first seems not to have helped (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What is this?

2005-05-02 Thread Robert McGwier
The fix to cvs and the removal of the broken file cleaned up everything here. FYI, with SUSE 9.3, the only thing I had to install from source with two subversions later SWIG. I was able to find an archive that actually worked (The Mail Archive) and got the URL to the usrp_fpga.rbf which is STI

[Discuss-gnuradio] wx-2.6

2005-05-17 Thread Robert McGwier
A few days ago I wrote about a swig lib generation problem, wherein the compiler blew and told me to call home to gnu-land and report an error. I forgot that I had installed wx-2.6 just to play around. As soon as I remove wx-2.6, all my problems generating the swig stuff went away. 2.6.0.0 is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF building blocks

2005-05-26 Thread Robert McGwier
And at $550-ish, the TVRX/USRP are underpriced. Thanks Matt! I would suggest more realistic pricing on future components. There is little hope of long term viability, time for support, upgrades, etc. without sufficient capitalization. I know that even this is more than many can afford. N

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Success!

2005-05-30 Thread Robert McGwier
Good. Maybe now I will stop being ignored when I report this exact same problem. Bob Eric Hill Matlis wrote: I can confirm the same problem after just updating via CVS. On Mon, 30 May 2005, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Still the same problem, Matt. John Matt Ettus wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Success!

2005-05-31 Thread Robert McGwier
John: Thanks for doing a better job than I did of describing this particular problem. The fix worked immediately. tvrx_wfm_rcv.py and other things using tv_rx are "back to normal". Bob Robert McGwier wrote: Good. Maybe now I will stop being ignored when I report this e

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing wxPython

2005-06-14 Thread Robert McGwier
http://www.kd7lmo.net/ground_gnuradio_baseline.html Download build_baseline.sh and copy the instructions. This is the best page related to this project, IMNSHO. Bob KUNAL RAJANI wrote: i had downloaded wxPython from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython-src-2.6.1.0.tar.gz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] interfacing usrp

2005-06-14 Thread Robert McGwier
One modification. If the TVRX is in RX-B port use ./tvrx_wfm_rcv_gui.py --freq 100.1 -w 1 Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:29:42PM +0530, KUNAL RAJANI wrote: hi all, i have just started on with gnu radio and have installed all the required libraries. I would like

[Discuss-gnuradio] Please add

2005-06-16 Thread Robert McGwier
Please add this line to tvrx_wfm_rcv_gui.py. I have a delta 44 and want to specify the plughw:0,0 on the command line. On another machine, I have a Lynx Studios card and I need to specify the correct device (of the 8 available) to OSS (the only one to support the card thanks to Lynx).

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBS_RX troubles

2005-06-22 Thread Robert McGwier
I have not seen this message once on mine. Bob Marcus D. Leech wrote: Matt likely isn't back from his trip to Green Bank yet, but I've observed that with the DBS_RX, using dbs_debug, that it complains whenever you go to set a frequency that "VCO failed to lock at x" appears. Since th

[Discuss-gnuradio] wrong checkout checked in

2005-06-26 Thread Robert McGwier
checkout has diff output in it in what looks like an attempt to put swiger in the developers list. I hacked away what I thought was right but please fix this in the distro. Bob ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX version 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Works perfectly on all my machines. I am using Python 2.4.0 and wxGTK (latest from SUSE under 9.3). I am actually using wxpython 2.6.1.0. All of the GUI gadgets I have used (most tvrx and dbs lately) work perfectly. Bob Matt Ettus wrote: Has anyone here tried using GNU Radio with wx a

[Discuss-gnuradio] DBS_RX, Gnuradio and GCC 4?

2005-07-09 Thread Robert McGwier
I was testing and debugging the new DBS_RX trying to ascertain its suitability for GPS and Mode LS transponder development (AMSAT -NA, http://www.amsat.org). We found a very small assembly error (short left on a cap on an op amp), we made some gain adjustments on the OP AMPS in the I/Q channel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to run tests

2005-08-12 Thread Robert McGwier
I deleted the gnuradio-core directory and reinstalled just before this as a "last resort". I then downloaded, configured, made and installed gcc 3.4.4 since SuSE has gcc 3.3. That has not helped either. all the gr_float_to_char.[cc,h,i] are there and the .lo is made. The test fails. Bob E

[Discuss-gnuradio] Make checks and tests problems

2005-08-15 Thread Robert McGwier
Okay, I have finally resolved this but it was a real pain. I had downloaded clean copies and made gcc-3.4.4 and installed it and I still had test problems. As a last resort, now with gcc-3.4.4 in charge, I remade all tools, python, wxPython, sdcc, swig, etc. etc. FINALLY, it compiles and c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Make checks and tests problems

2005-08-17 Thread Robert McGwier
n a stable environment. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:02:00PM +0000, Robert McGwier wrote: Okay, I have finally resolved this but it was a real pain. I had downloaded clean copies and made gcc-3.4.4 and installed it and I still had test problems. As a last resort, now with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Good SWIG versions

2005-08-18 Thread Robert McGwier
Great!! Thanks. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:28:12PM +, n4hy wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:27:54 + From: n4hy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A Plea for Packagers To: Matt Ettus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I had no trouble on FC3 or FC4

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] external clock

2005-08-19 Thread Robert McGwier
Bdale: I am using an atom bomb to smash an ant: I have a PTS-160 synthesizer. It is locked with a rubidium oscillator OR a GPS tamed oscillator. I use the rubidium when I am moving (at W3CCX or in the car or on 10 Ghz cumulative weekends, etc.) Moving GPS sucks for taming an oscillator!

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Instaling Baseline requirment problem

2005-09-20 Thread Robert McGwier
Same here: Under Suse 9.3 (WHICH I HAVE HAD FOR MONTHS) 8-) , xerces will not compile. The latest version, 2_7_0 gets further into the build than before but will not build. Since I could not figure out a single need for it, I removed it from KD7LMO's baseline build stuff. Please let

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Instaling Baseline requirment problem

2005-09-20 Thread Robert McGwier
x27;t go with Fedora Core 3 or 4... Thanks for feedback! Al > Robert McGwier wrote: ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HF Receiver

2005-09-22 Thread Robert McGwier
I listen all day long while it plays 88.1 FM, WNJN, a national public radio station near me after I turn Imus in the Morning off of the SDR-1000. It definitely works. Bob Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: G'day, I've become the proud owner of a tvrx daughter board and ready to take a further ste

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need some answers about FM TX

2005-10-01 Thread Robert McGwier
Jorge: The paper you included and the mathematical and electrical phenomenon you are talking about applies to the analog to digital converter, the receiver only. This is undersampling as you call it. Most engineers call it bandpass sampling. It applies to the use of aliasing to bring a hig

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need some answers about FM TX

2005-10-01 Thread Robert McGwier
Thanks for all the comments but I still have my doubts. I am more like to believe in clock leakage and DAC nonlinearities causing this than I am with square wave harmonic activity. I will investigate further with the spec-an if I have time. The pico-board looks great. I recently acquired the

[Discuss-gnuradio] make check problems again

2005-10-03 Thread Robert McGwier
gr_fir_fff test fails in test_101_interp. It hangs after 7 dots in the ellipsis and then prints a capital E and gives one of the unreadable traces. Anyone else see this? Bob -- Laziness is the number one inspiration for ingenuity. Guilty as charged! _

[Discuss-gnuradio] Mr. Bose, Jr.

2005-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Vanu inventor prominently mentions GnuRadio: http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/04inter.htm* I hope no one else linked this here. If so, my apologies the duplication. I am buried under a mountain of work. Bob * -- Laziness is the number one inspiration for ingenuity. Guilty as charged!

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-usrp build error

2005-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Ooops. Yes I see that the usrp update has been failing. Mea Culpa. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:58:06AM -0400, Robert W McGwier wrote: FYI. g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -pthread -I/usr/local/include/gnuradio -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/python2.4

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] resampler block

2005-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Almost. I did write it, I sent it off to Matt who discovered some problem with it and I have just been too busy to figure out the problem. It was the Kaiser window (optimal window) that was the cause of the issue Matt observed. I will be able to return to it after the weekend. The AMSAT m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No module name gnuradio

2005-10-24 Thread Robert McGwier
KD7LMO has excellent instructions on how to build to a non global libraries, etc. This prevents disruption of things that depend on the base install versions. I know, it finally took a reinstall to straighten my mess out. http://www.kd7lmo.net/ground_gnuradio_install.html and pay special a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] halfband in CVS

2005-10-25 Thread Robert McGwier
Using the wfm receive module I notice increased sensitivity using the halfband filter load. I have not played with the various decimations or tried to do anything other than standard stuff so far but this is an improvement. I can't wait to look at GPS with the DBS_RX to see if the sensitivity

[Discuss-gnuradio] Brickle/AB2KT and Carnegie Hall

2005-11-04 Thread Robert McGwier
On December 22 at Carnegie Hall, the New Jersey Composer's Guild will present "Answer to Job, An Alternative Holiday Concert".Frank Brickle (AB2KT) is the secretary of the Composer's Guild of New Jersey. He has composed an opera which will be performed during this concert: http://www.will

[Discuss-gnuradio] Rational Resampler

2005-11-08 Thread Robert McGwier
The rational resampler is functional and has been checked in by Eric. I learned a valuable lesson which I will pass on. Like everyone who does a lot of different coding these days, the first place to go is to Google for the time saving code. Julius O. Smith of CCRMA did a very good study of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help w/ simple AM tx program

2005-11-13 Thread Robert McGwier
Let me add just a quick comment on the' why'. Josh' transmitter was nearly DSB suppressed carrier. The REASON for the DC offset is that the DC offset becomes the AM carrier after you heterodyne or mixer up to the operating frequency. Without the DC offset, you get DSB. Now that Matt and I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK at 768kb/sec and other good stuff

2005-11-14 Thread Robert McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: Matt, Bob McGwier (N4HY) and I spent last week working on GNU Radio face to face. We got an incredible amount of stuff done, and not much sleep! Below are some of the highlights: -- snip -- You left out why it was possible to work this hard

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reducing the ADC sample rate

2005-11-14 Thread Robert McGwier
The reason Matt, Eric, and I are questioning this is that the resampling done in software, is quite nice and completely adequate for this task. Bob Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote: > Matt Ettus wrote: Is there any other way to decrease the sample rate beside the decim_rate? Why would you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK at 768kb/sec and other good stuff

2005-11-16 Thread Robert McGwier
The GMSK code is an FSK detector and modulator, etc. The only caveat is that it must be a "narrow shift" FSK because of the use of arctangent in the detector but this should not be a problem for any reasonable shift. It is called GMSK because of the settings inside. I think it is more genera

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK at 768kb/sec and other good stuff

2005-11-21 Thread Robert McGwier
Dawei: You have understood it. Can you suggest a less expensive way than a single pole iir filter (integrator) to compute the running average of the data so we can subtract that mean? That was the only thought. We needed a very low frequency cut off and this is computationally cheap. Bob

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK at 768kb/sec and other good stuff

2005-11-21 Thread Robert McGwier
varying block sizes, but I see this as no problem would be a computational win. Thanks, Bob Martin Dvh wrote: Robert McGwier wrote: Dawei: You have understood it. Can you suggest a less expensive way than a single pole iir filter (integrator) to compute the running average of the data

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gmsk error

2005-12-01 Thread Robert McGwier
We put the whitener and CRC32 in for a reason: 1) clock recovery and other things work better if you do not have long runs of 1's or 0's. 2) How will you be able to check end to end integrity without CRC or other style checking? The answer is, you can live without either but you pay the ob

[Discuss-gnuradio] A quick answer?

2005-12-02 Thread Robert McGwier
I did a bit of google searchinrg but cannot seem to hit on the cause of this: ** (python:1778): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030 I am running the usrp FM receive program. It doesn't seem to impact the performance but it is an annoyance. Anyone have a quick suggestion? Bob --

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiple USRPs

2005-12-07 Thread Robert McGwier
This is not quite right. The DIFFERENT oscillators on the USRP boards have different frequencies and thus constantly changing phase angle with respect to each other and with probability 1, the frequencies of both oscillators will change with changing temp, air flow, etc.. The only way to avoi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiple USRPs

2005-12-08 Thread Robert McGwier
In addition to Matt's answer let me add a few remarks. A few years ago, while working with Tom Clark at Goddard Space Flight Center (Tom is an astrophysicist), I was asked to look at some Kalman Filtering routines for his VLBI work. MANY years later, I desperately needed to make widely pl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiple USRPs

2005-12-08 Thread Robert McGwier
MEA CULPA! I did miss it. We are in complete agreement. Bob Martin Dvh wrote: Robert McGwier wrote: This is not quite right. The DIFFERENT oscillators on the USRP boards have different frequencies and thus constantly changing phase angle with respect to each other and with

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thread-Safe Blocking?

2005-12-17 Thread Robert McGwier
I think the question was probably more than "what tools" but I could be wrong. Let me attempt more just in case. gr-audio-osx should NEVER be blocked awaiting anything in gr. A sound system callback wants to feed and be fed and never get blocked. When it has new data, it should issue a sema

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDR-1000

2005-12-17 Thread Robert McGwier
It should not be surprising that the Flex Radio DSP authors (Frank Brickle and I) are also Gnu Radio enthusiasts and have made and are making contributions to the cause. We believe strongly in the GPL. Bob Frank Rawlins wrote: Hi, You are probably aware - SDR-1000 is being advertised on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thread-Safe Blocking?

2005-12-17 Thread Robert McGwier
error and fill in the buffers with zeros, the last data, whatever. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:28:26AM -0500, Robert McGwier wrote: gr-audio-osx should NEVER be blocked awaiting anything in gr. No, but there are times when gr should block awaiting something in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software controlled antenna

2005-12-20 Thread Robert McGwier
Chuck that is sweet. Nice work. Bob N4HY Chuck Swiger wrote: This weekend's project was pretty easy and useful. My indoor antenna is a loop with pretty sharp Q which requires touching up, manually, even if receiver frequency is changed only 50kHz. I have to get up, walk over to the loop an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] software controlled antenna

2005-12-20 Thread Robert McGwier
For much of what I can envision doing with the USRP and phased arrays, it will be a narrow band phased array. This means that the bandwidth of the signals of interest or bands of interest is small in comparison to the carrier frequency. In those cases, and when the antennas are (say) 1/2 wav

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] curve fitting data points

2005-12-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Chuck, John: If we know already, a priori, that the data is from a "smooth function", that means (moving from left to right say), the extended line or the extended parabola from the last two or last three points respectively is always a very good predictor of the next point, then I would sugge

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] curve fitting data points

2005-12-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Perfect. Chuck Swiger wrote: Just thought while going to sleep last night, piecemeal linear or collecting several data points and doing linear interpolation betwen them should work fine. For (x1, y1) (x2, y2) (x3, y3) where x1 < x2 < x3 I can get slope m1 and y-intercept b1 between x1-x2,

[Discuss-gnuradio] wx apt receiver

2005-12-28 Thread Robert McGwier
I checked in an easy modification to the wfm receiver. This should receive wx apt (weather satellite) transmisions with the usrp and the tuner. I will make use of wxtoimg for the sound to image processing. http://www.wxtoimg.com has software for windows, linux, and mac. The gr and usrp c

[Discuss-gnuradio] Notes in new FFTW3.1 Beta

2006-01-15 Thread Robert McGwier
"FAQ notes bug in gcc-3.4.[1-3] that causes FFTW to crash with SSE/SSE2" The new fftw3.1 beta looks good so far. Final release promised within next two weeks. Bob -- AMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP/AMQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR Wrk Grp Chairman Lazi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Windows

2006-02-05 Thread Robert McGwier
Gerald Youngblood with Flex Radio has made a multimillion dollar business using V.19. He would be dead in the water without it being reliable. I have used V.19 on windows, linux, etc. I converted the gr-audio-alsa code to gr-audio-portaudio superficially and checked it in. It will soon rise

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Windows

2006-02-05 Thread Robert McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:46:50PM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: I don't think changing the flow graph buffering is going to make any difference. I think that the "right answer" is build a very high-functioning audio sink/source using portaudio. It's on my list, but

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Windows

2006-02-05 Thread Robert McGwier
Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 13:06, Robert McGwier wrote: Lots of hooey deleted I would say that this is the single best hope we have for reliable and solid audio under Windows for GnuRadio. I will soon return to this and help Eric, et. al. get it running and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Modified wfm_rcv_pll, usrp_wfm_rcv_pll blocks, and gr_filter blocks

2006-02-06 Thread Robert McGwier
Today Eric showed me how to use gr_kludge_copy to finish the modifications to wfm_rcv_pll and we now have stereo receive on FM. These modification are a testimonial to the GnuRadio code and the ease with which it can be used to glue things together. I wrote the lines down, Eric put in gr.klu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Organizational Changes to Address Growth

2016-03-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Best of luck to you Tom. Come visit the Hokies! Bob Virginia Tech On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > I've been running the GNU Radio project for over five years. In this time, > we've dramatically expanded its capabilities, prominence, and performance. > We have attracted g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Organizational Changes to Address Growth

2016-03-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Ben: Don't forget you are a Hokie too! Good luck! Bob On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > Hi all - > > As I mentioned in the thread regarding the website updates, we recently > discovered that changes to the gnuradio.org DNS caused some MX record > issues, and many of you di

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Organizational Changes to Address Growth

2016-03-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Great stuff Jonathan. I look forward to working with you. Do you think I will still be here when I am 70? ;-) Bob On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > Most of you already know me, as I’ve been in the GNU Radio community for > eleven years in various roles, including r

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-fosphor under pybombs-2

2016-04-05 Thread Robert McGwier
I recently updated pybombs to latest version using the git based installation command line from the github instructions. I could not install gr-fosphor because it would not configure. The issue appears to be that the recipe is incomplete. rwmcgwi@origin1:~/gnuradio$ pybombs install gr-fosphor |

[Discuss-gnuradio] Alignment bug fix

2016-05-27 Thread Robert McGwier
Recently a kernel alignment bug was fixed (ugly) and this repaired the polyphase synthesis engine in the main code. My PhD student, Bill Clark (Amateur Radio call KK4EWQ) at Virginia Tech, has suffered with and pointed out this problem with the synthesizer for some time. He wrote an out of tree m

[Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs and mako

2016-12-01 Thread Robert McGwier
This is ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel machine (high end). usual startup with recipe install, prefix init, etc. find . | grep mako yields /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mako and much underneath it. pybombs install gnuradio yields Install tree: | \- gnuradio | +- uhd | \- apache-thri

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs and mako

2016-12-03 Thread Robert McGwier
eed a Py3k version. > > Cheers, > M > > On 12/01/2016 06:57 AM, Robert McGwier wrote: > > This is ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel machine (high end). > > > > usual startup with recipe install, prefix init, etc. > > > > > > find . | grep mako yields > &g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs problems resolved

2016-12-06 Thread Robert McGwier
Something installed python under a directory called miniconda. I have not yet tracked that down but gnuradio and pybombs now work. Apologies to Martin, et. al. for wasting their time on my silly too complex installation. Bob -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technica

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [SOLVED] Clock Recovery MM

2014-10-11 Thread Robert McGwier
Ooops. Good catch Bastian. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Bastian Bloessl > wrote: > >> >> On 09 Sep 2014, at 15:42, Tom Rondeau wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Bastian Bloessl >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > looking at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question on how to derive a class in an out-of-tree module based on a gnuradio class

2014-10-12 Thread Robert McGwier
Zhe, every single developer who has ever written for GnuRadio runs into this particular swig necessity and searches like mad, certain it is done... Congrats. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Zhe Feng wrote: > Hi Marcus, Martin and Bastian, > > Thanks for your help! > > You are right, it's a link

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why is fft output complex?

2014-10-12 Thread Robert McGwier
Brad: You are treating an FFT as if it were a spectrum analyzer which produces a magnitude or energy profile of how much signal is at a particular frequency. The FFT does much more than that. It tells not only what magnitude is at a frequency but what phase angle the signal has there. Let's tak

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about reverse-engineering a new mode

2015-05-26 Thread Robert McGwier
FIPS compliant security, device security, network security, access controls, and application level security are all integral parts of Public Safety Network design and operation and AVL in particular. It is just not intended to be "super duper" APRS. I would not spend a lot money on equipment if

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stuck at WBFM Project :

2017-08-08 Thread Robert McGwier
And in addition to all of the other awesome comments, let me give you some communications theory. If a signal occupies K kHz of bandwidth, you need at least 2K samples/second to capture the information in that signal. This is called the Nyquist Sampling Theorem (it can be K complex kilo-samples

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help understanding AX.25 encoding and tagged streams

2017-08-26 Thread Robert McGwier
At one time rational resampling meant that the interpolation and decimation were each integers so the rate change is the ratio of two integers and thus rational. If one or more of your inputs is fractional I believe you need the arbitrary rate resampler. Bob On Aug 15, 2017 10:16 PM, "Cinaed Si

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Simulating non linearity and distortion

2017-08-26 Thread Robert McGwier
And one of the best talks Matt Ettus has ever given was his talk on learning about impairments using gnuradio. See if you can dig that up or maybe someone can point to it that has a better memory than mine. Bob On Aug 18, 2017 1:45 PM, "Marcus Müller" wrote: > Yes. There's a whole category "i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using Correlate Estimation with hardware

2017-08-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Sebastian What center frequency did you use? What RF cards are you using? Are you using coaxial cable,to connect transmit to receive or are you transmitting and receiving through an antenna? If you are using antennas please describe them. Cheers Bob Bob On Aug 26, 2017 12:12 PM, "Sebastian"

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM channel tap questions

2018-01-25 Thread Robert McGwier
Orthogonality (as the O in OFDM) guarantees a fixed phase relationship for every symbol unless a pattern is introduced in an effort to reduce peak to average power ratio (which I do not believe is happening here). PAPR is bane of OFDM and much research has gone in to reduce this problem which requ

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Project Leadership Updates

2018-01-31 Thread Robert McGwier
Thank you Jonathan. I hope you have more time to enjoy your airplane and amateur radio! Welcome to all the other "old" new people taking on great roles. We appreciate it. Bob On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > Hi all! > > As usual, there is a lot going on in the project a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs issue

2014-01-09 Thread Robert McGwier
I did an update to pybombs two days ago, and immediately gnuradio got to around 57% completion and just hung my Ubuntu 13.10 computer so hard, I couldn't get it to respond to ctrl-alt-del for over half and hour. I tried again after doing a force rebuild on gnuradio and it was worse. I long-hit th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PYBOMBs Testing

2014-01-10 Thread Robert McGwier
All it DOES see if ice3.4. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Dan CaJacob wrote: > Hey Tom, > > Thanks. I didn't know how or what to search for, so that was useful. > Here's the result: > > p kde-zeroconf - zeroconf plugins and kio >> slaves for KDE >> p kde-ze

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Problem with getting clear FM signals using the usrp e110

2014-04-09 Thread Robert McGwier
First 100k is insufficient sample rate from the E110. An FM station has 150 kHz total swing (+/- 75 kHz) so the frequency range of your E110 complex output is 100 kHz and is therefore insufficient for the entire modulation. You then feed the 100k sample per second signal into the FM block where

[Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-25 Thread Robert McGwier
I have my new x300's. The NI ExpressCard-8360B is recognized by my Intel 5, Lenovo, 64 bit machine running U 14.04 LTS. I naively assumed that given the way things had gone before, that this would be a low impact out of the box experience. uhd_find_devices finds nothing. So I go and dig and fin

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