[time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-11 Thread Mark Sims
I read it took less than a week to discover how to unravel the GLONASS military signals after they were turned on... -- > This approach is known as “security through obscurity”, and is deprecated > in the professional of information security. What one invents, another can > dis

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread jimlux
On 4/10/17 2:08 PM, Eric Scace wrote: This approach is known as “security through obscurity”, and is deprecated in the professional of information security. What one invents, another can discover. The most secure systems use well-documented algorithms with open-source software — widely

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Alex Pummer
depend how much in-band loss could you afford it is relative easy to make cavity filters if you have a network analyzer available 73 Alex On 4/10/2017 9:11 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 18:13:48 -0400 Bob kb8tq wrote: The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a S

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Eric Scace
This approach is known as “security through obscurity”, and is deprecated in the professional of information security. What one invents, another can discover. The most secure systems use well-documented algorithms with open-source software — widely scrutinized for bugs or implants, and th

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:00:17 -0400 Bob kb8tq wrote: > > > > Only if you *need* the Galileo E5. > > The other point with E5 is the nature of the data on the various sub signals. > Galileo has three classes of service and only one of them is free (open). Yes. Thats why we do not talk about E6,

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:00:27 +0200 Magnus Danielson wrote: > God Morgon Attila, > > On 04/09/2017 10:28 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 > > jimlux wrote: > > > > The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a SAW filter > > at all. If the input stage (LNA

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:08:10 +0100 "David J Taylor" wrote: > Thanks for that pointer! Most interesting. I wonder whether anyone has an > updated document detailing the different systems and their current state, as > that information is approaching 10 years old? As far as I am aware of, that

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 18:13:48 -0400 Bob kb8tq wrote: > > The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a SAW filter > > at all. If the input stage (LNA + mixer) has a high enough dynamic > > range, then the (first) IF filer alone can remove all those out of > > band interference. > > Why w

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 04/10/2017 03:00 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: God Morgon Attila, On 04/09/2017 10:28 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 jimlux wrote: The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a SAW filter at all.

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Björn Gabrielsson
Hi Bob, > It is a bit unclear what the third > band would add other than a "cool factor" Even quicker RTK convergence. http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/Carrier_phase_ambiguity_fixing_with_three_frequencies -- Björn ___ time-nuts mailing l

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi > On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Magnus Danielson > wrote: > > God Morgon Attila, > > On 04/09/2017 10:28 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 >> jimlux wrote: >> >> The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a SAW filter >> at all. If the input stage (LN

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread David J Taylor
BTW: Rodriguez' PhD thesis[2] (which is the basis of navipedia) gives a very nice overview of the trade-off's that went into the Galileo signals and gives a few hints where future GNSS signals could further improve things. Attila Kinali [2] "On Generalized Signal Waveforms for Satellite Navigati

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
God Morgon Attila, On 04/09/2017 10:28 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 jimlux wrote: The beauty of the system would be that you don't need a SAW filter at all. If the input stage (LNA + mixer) has a high enough dynamic range, then the (first) IF filer alone can remov

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Attila, On 04/09/2017 10:29 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:37:07 +0200 Magnus Danielson wrote: Also, you don't really need to keep the bands fully separate in their mixed-down form, since they do not correlate except for the P(Y), but keeping enough frequency difference, su

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
> On Apr 9, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 08:27:58 -0400 > Bob kb8tq wrote: > >> Galileo E5 is a bit of a strange case. It’s really E5a and E5b. >> You can either grab it all as one giant signal or as two separate signals. >> You may (or may not) care about the

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
HI > On Apr 9, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 > jimlux wrote: > >>> The advantage of such a system would be that there is only a single >>> path through the system for all signals, especially through the filters. >>> Thus the variability of the dif

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 08:27:58 -0400 Bob kb8tq wrote: > Galileo E5 is a bit of a strange case. It’s really E5a and E5b. > You can either grab it all as one giant signal or as two separate signals. > You may (or may not) care about the data on E5a or b depending on what you > are trying to do. Gettin

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:37:07 +0200 Magnus Danielson wrote: > Also, you don't really need to keep the bands fully separate in their > mixed-down form, since they do not correlate except for the P(Y), but > keeping enough frequency difference, such that doppler shift does not > remove correlation

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:58:11 -0700 jimlux wrote: > > The advantage of such a system would be that there is only a single > > path through the system for all signals, especially through the filters. > > Thus the variability of the differential phase shift between the > > frequency bands would be si

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, There are many things to be done before attempting the full E5 approach anyway, so I would not have make it a make or break for a first design. Cheers, Magnus On 04/05/2017 02:27 PM, Bob kb8tq wrote: Hi Galileo E5 is a bit of a strange case. It’s really E5a and E5b. You can either grab

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-05 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Galileo E5 is a bit of a strange case. It’s really E5a and E5b. You can either grab it all as one giant signal or as two separate signals. You may (or may not) care about the data on E5a or b depending on what you are trying to do. Getting the entire very wide signal likely has some intere

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 04/05/2017 01:21 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 06:55:24 -0700 jimlux wrote: So those folks were trying to use 1 ADC for all three bands, so they had to choose a sampling rate that lets them separate the signals later in software. But that ADC is a MAX104 - a 1GSPS, 8 bit c

Re: [time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver

2017-04-04 Thread jimlux
On 4/4/17 4:21 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 06:55:24 -0700 jimlux wrote: So those folks were trying to use 1 ADC for all three bands, so they had to choose a sampling rate that lets them separate the signals later in software. But that ADC is a MAX104 - a 1GSPS, 8 bit converte

[time-nuts] Sinlge ADC multi-band receiver (was: GPS first LO need to be locked?)

2017-04-04 Thread Attila Kinali
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 06:55:24 -0700 jimlux wrote: > So those folks were trying to use 1 ADC for all three bands, so they had > to choose a sampling rate that lets them separate the signals later in > software. > > But that ADC is a MAX104 - a 1GSPS, 8 bit converter - that draws 5 Watts!!! > >