On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Michael Dickens <m...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> > It's because with the larger bandwidth, the subcarriers, too, have a
> larger bandwidth. The coarse frequency correction is only set to look at so
> large an offset based on a number of subcarriers (+/-5 or 10), so now with
> the same frequency offset, 5 (or 10) carriers is a larger frequency span to
> check.
>
> Ah; yes.  That makes sense.  My mind is thrashing with multi-thread
> dilemmas, not signal processing, right now.
>
> >> 1 MHz off at 5 GHz is 200 ppm (yes?).  IIRC a reasonable spec on these
> boards is 5-10 ppm.   So, > 10x off the spec?  I doubt it.  My guess is
> it's something in GNU Radio that wasn't fixed when the benchmarks were
> transitioned from gr-usrp* to UHD.
> >
> > I think this is a known problem with the XCVR that has been fixed. Make
> sure you have the most up-to-date master branch of both the UHD and GNU
> Radio.
>
> They were both the most recent as of yesterday.  I'll update right now &
> see if that helps, but I'm doubtful since none of the commits since
> yesterday seem to impact the behavior of the XCVR.  I'll also remove any
> cruft in /usr/local before re-installing.  More later. - MLD


No, this would have been fixed weeks/months ago, so updating today won't
help.

Are you seeing the 1 MHz offset when you use the uhd_siggen.py? Or is it
just with the OFDM transmitter?

Tom
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