2011/12/9 John Malsbury <john.malsb...@ettus.com>

>  Domenic,
>
> Whenever you are transferring data from a transmitter to a receiver it is
> reasonable to use some sort of framing.  If you want  a quick test, use a
> packet encoder and decoder on your transmitter and receiver, respectively.
> This will packetize the data and eliminate the continuous flow of "garbage"
> data to your file since the decoder will only output data from valid
> packets(w/ header + crc are removed).  Bit errors will manifest themselves
> as a "short file", since bad packets will be discarded.  If you run the
> block in verbose mode there may also be reporting for when packets are
> discarded.
>
> Set the payload length number in the encoder so you have a known
> relationship between the number of bytes missing from the file and the
> number of packet errors.
>
> There are numerous ways to improve this simple test, but this is a start
> for you.  Also, you may want to perform a more fundamental bit error test.
> See error rate block.
>

Just a word of warning:
If you use the package en/decoder and the BER block , it might just go
haywire
The BER block cannot regain from a missing frame (which would be the case
if the framer threw it away)

>
> -J
>
>
>
>
> On 12/09/2011 07:29 AM, Domenic Magazu III wrote:
>
>   All,
>    I was playing around with the DPSK block provided with GNU Radio.  I
> was able to get my two USRPs talking to each other.  I placed a file sink
> on the random source generator (set to transmit 10 random binary digits)
> and I'm able to see what was actually sent from that file (command: od -d
> filename.bin).  I was curious how I go about verifying that the message in
> my filename.bin is received as transmitted on the other end?  I tried
> placing a file sink on the DPSK demod block however because the receiver is
> constantly pulling in information my file becomes extremely large and it's
> difficult to determine where the message would be amongst the other
> 'noise'.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to verify my transmitted
> message is making it to my receiver?
>
>  Thank you
> Domenic
>
>
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Best
Paul
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