Hi Daniel,
Which RF daughterboards are installed in your X310?  It appears that your
X310 motherboard isn't talking to any daughterboard.
Rob

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM Daniel Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am attempting to transmit with a USRP X310 using the 'tx_waveforms'
> example (./tx_waveforms --rate 25e6 --freq 900e6 --gain 20), but a
> SignalHound spectrum analyzer placed next to the transmitting antenna of
> the USRP is not picking up any signal above the noise floor at that
> frequency. The spectrum analyzer shows signals transmitted by other
> devices, so it seems unlikely that the spectrum analyzer is broken.
>
> The text output of the example is as follows:
>
>> Setting TX Rate: 25.000000 Msps...
>> Actual TX Rate: 25.000000 Msps...
>>
>> Setting TX Gain: 20.000000 dB...
>>
>> *Actual TX Gain: 0.000000 dB...*
>> Setting device timestamp to 0...
>>
>> *[WARNING] [0/Radio#0] Attempting to set tick rate to 0. Skipping.*Setting
>> TX Freq: 900.000000 MHz...
>> Setting TX LO Offset: 0.000000 MHz...
>> *Actual TX Freq: 0.000000 MHz...*
>
> I did notice that the 'Actual TX Gain' and 'Actual TX Freq' are both set
> to 0; could this be a cause of the problem?
>
> For completeness, here are the configuration parameters that the example
> prints out:
>
>> [INFO] [X300] Radio 1x clock: 200 MHz
>> Using Device: Single USRP:
>>   Device: X-Series Device
>>   Mboard 0: X310
>>   RX Channel: 0
>>     RX DSP: 0
>>     RX Dboard: A
>>     RX Subdev: Unknown (0xffff) - 0
>>   RX Channel: 1
>>     RX DSP: 1
>>     RX Dboard: B
>>     RX Subdev: UBX RX
>>   TX Channel: 0
>>     TX DSP: 0
>>     TX Dboard: A
>>     TX Subdev: Unknown (0xffff) - 0
>>   TX Channel: 1
>>     TX DSP: 1
>>     TX Dboard: B
>>     TX Subdev: UBX TX
>
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Daniel Mayer
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