[Flexradio] Diversity reception - Noise cancellation

2012-11-14 Thread Brad A. Steffler
Is it possible to receive the same frequency on the two receivers in my 5000a and invert one and then add it to the non-inverted and output the result with a large degree of noise cancellation. I would think that the received noise would be on a receiver using a less sensitive antenna in order

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-06 Thread Bob McGwier
radio...@frontiernet.net wrote: Bob, how would this work with the SDR-1000 and Flex3000 considering they only have one RX? Are you using the Multi-Rx capability in PowerSDR and them applying the ESPRIT algorithms from the paper you referenced in this email?? 73, Dennis Petrich Amateur Radio

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-06 Thread radioart
USA k0...@arrl.net 952-898-1082 - Original Message - From: "Bob McGwier" To: audio...@charter.net Cc: "FLEX USERS" Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 7:39:01 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners Jim: We can do t

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-06 Thread radioart
2 els against one, or 3 x 2el pairs may be a better topology 73 W9OY From: Phil Harman To: Bob McGwier Cc: Lee A Crocker ; Flexradio Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:02:44 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners > > Fra

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Lee A Crocker
W9OY From: Phil Harman To: Bob McGwier Cc: Lee A Crocker ; Flexradio Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:02:44 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners > > Frank mentioned one person who had done some phasing experiments. I > w

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Naruta
Perhaps what we need is adaptive diversity reception. :) Phil Harman wrote: My results of using the system was inconclusive. What I found was that strong local signals could be nulled completely. However, on DX stations it was very difficult to get any form of null or enhancement. When you

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Phil Harman
> > Frank mentioned one person who had done some phasing experiments. I > would also like to mention Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA who has done a > really neat version. I intend to steal his user interface idea > completely. It makes both mathematical and user sense. > > Bob > I had the good fortun

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
You idea is a good one. Period. That is all you should take away from my remarks. I had not even begun to think of doing coherent processing with the software receivers except to suck off interfering sidebands from other signals in our passband. Thank you. John lovingly calls it the Bob Suc

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Jim Barber
Thanks for the reply, Bob. I have no axe to grind with regard to any particular algorithm, but I did want to make sure what I thought would be the simplest/most common case would be covered; IE one antenna available and the desire for the most effective noise reduction/cancellation. Having don

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Jim: We can do this right now with a software receiver. We need to make the oscillators coherent in the same way we have done (in software). So this will be usable by SDR-1000 and Flex3000 owners. Good idea. I do not agree that the algorithm you suggest is the correct one but it will be t

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Dennis Petrich
I would upgrade to a Flex5000 just to get Diversity Keep up the great work guys. 73, Dennis, k0eoo - Original Message - From: "Bob McGwier" To: "Lee A Crocker" Cc: "Flexradio" Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Div

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Wow is right. It is hard to understand just how impressive 40F really is. 40G sounds the most impressive but to the trained ear and tools, 40 F is amazing. The Flex 5000 is utterly coherent through the oscillators. It is two different DDS's that are synchronized by a built in system which G

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Lee A Crocker wrote: I made a few more clips. The effect can be spectactular or very subtle. In 40-E I found on static the source is sort of from a quadrant and so the notching is very broad. None the less I could get about 3dB of noise reduction. In 40-F the SWBC is dramatic. The statio

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Lee A Crocker
I made a few more clips. The effect can be spectactular or very subtle. In 40-E I found on static the source is sort of from a quadrant and so the notching is very broad. None the less I could get about 3dB of noise reduction. In 40-F the SWBC is dramatic. The station was very weak. If th

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Jim Barber
Not being familiar with the architecture or sources, would there be any value in developing a 2-input, LMS-style noise reduction scheme using the same antenna for both receivers and a small frequency offset? (RX2 would be tuned to an unoccupied "noise" frequency as close as possible to the "act

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Frank Brickle wrote: FWIW there is an article by Victor K1LT for QEX about work with this same technique, using multiple SoftRocks and Linux DttSP. Victor has been developing his own software for phased combining of multiple antenna inputs for a couple of years now, with considerable success, as

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-04 Thread Frank Brickle
FWIW there is an article by Victor K1LT for QEX about work with this same technique, using multiple SoftRocks and Linux DttSP. Victor has been developing his own software for phased combining of multiple antenna inputs for a couple of years now, with considerable success, as related in the article.

[Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-04 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric and I have begun adding the diversity reception capability to the Flex 5000. It will work for those 5000's which have the RX2 installed. In my diversity branch, one can find the enabled code. It is VERY rough but as you can tell from Lee's blog: http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/ the softw

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Greene
Lee, You obviously need two antennas and two sets of analog components. Why don't you try the AmQRP Soft Rock 40 as a second analog device? You may be able to run two copies of Power SDR Console from different directories. You should also be able to run SO2R which may be of interest to s

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Frank Brickle
Robert McGwier Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:34 PM To: Lee A Crocker Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception Lee: The only diversity that an SDR-1000 is able to provide is frequency and time diversity. You can send whatever elements you want to see at mult

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Tim Ellison
ge- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:34 PM To: Lee A Crocker Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception Lee: The only diversity that an SDR-1000 is able to provide is frequency and tim

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Robert McGwier
Lee: The only diversity that an SDR-1000 is able to provide is frequency and time diversity. You can send whatever elements you want to see at multiple frequencies and/or at multiple times using the SDR-1000. You have 40+ KHz of bandwidth in/out of the SDR-1000 so we could send the same signa

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Lux
At 02:26 PM 1/8/2006, Lee A Crocker wrote: > I'm not sure this is a "nitch" market. There are thousands of hams involved with weak signal work and DXing who have multiple antennas that could implament diversity reception, so this may actually be an unexplored market, and this is a very good RX

[Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Lee A Crocker
> I'm not sure this is a "nitch" market. There are thousands of hams involved with weak signal work and DXing who have multiple antennas that could implament diversity reception, so this may actually be an unexplored market, and this is a very good RX to introduce to exploit it. The problem has

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Frank Brickle
Apart from dynamic range issues, a USRP is probably a better vehicle for this kind of work. 73 Frank AB2KT Jim Lux wrote: At 11:15 AM 1/8/2006, Lee A Crocker wrote: I have an interest in diversity reception. Therefore one would need essentially 2 antennas, 2 revievers locked to the same fr

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Lux
At 11:35 AM 1/8/2006, Frank Brickle wrote: The software could easily handle diversity reception, but you'd need to provide a separate, independent RF path and A/D conversion input pair for each channel. In short, another whole SDR1K hardware box. Actually, you don't need a WHOLE SDR1K.. you ju

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Lux
At 11:15 AM 1/8/2006, Lee A Crocker wrote: I have an interest in diversity reception. Therefore one would need essentially 2 antennas, 2 revievers locked to the same freq, and a way to mix the audio stream from each receiver. I would like this in the context of being able to transmit also on on

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Frank Brickle
The software could easily handle diversity reception, but you'd need to provide a separate, independent RF path and A/D conversion input pair for each channel. In short, another whole SDR1K hardware box. 73 Frank AB2KT Lee A Crocker wrote: I have an interest in diversity reception. Therefor

[Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-08 Thread Lee A Crocker
I have an interest in diversity reception. Therefore one would need essentially 2 antennas, 2 revievers locked to the same freq, and a way to mix the audio stream from each receiver. I would like this in the context of being able to transmit also on one freq which may be offset from the RX freq.