PS - The decoder I built was tested with live recordings of a stensat
beacon from the phonesat group, so I think it will certainly work in your
case - if only with minor modifications.

-John

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:18 PM, John Malsbury <john.malsb...@ettus.com>wrote:

> Adam,
>
> I apologize if I'm misunderstanding your question.  But the packet decoder
> in GNU Radio is not an AX.25, just a general purpose decode.  I've hacked
> together an AX.25 receiver with the N200.  I can send the files to you
> tomorrow.
>
> -John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Adam Gunderson <
> agunder...@ssel.montana.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are currently trying to setup a ground station for GMSK modulated AX25
>> packets at 9600 and 19200.
>>
>> Our current setup that works is the USRP N200 through GNU radio audio
>> sink and to a Kantronics 9612+ TNC (gmsk_demod.png, quadrature demod ->
>> audio sink). What we want to do is replace the hardware TNC with GNU radio
>> packet decoding blocks and send the packets over TCP.
>>
>> We first tested the loopback through all the gmsk mod/demod and packet
>> encoder/decoder blocks, (gmsk_loopback.png) and this works fine.
>>
>> However, when we send our received AX.25 packets through GMSK demod ->
>> packet decoder -> TCP sink (gmsk_demod.png) we do not see anything on the
>> TCP server side, which tested fine in loopback.
>>
>> We are assuming the hangup is in the packet decoder block as it is not
>> recognizing AX.25 packets or possibly at the end of the GMSK demod block.
>>
>> Do we need to look into writing our own packet decoder block? If we need
>> to do this, is there a good guide on how to edit existing blocks, or look
>> at their work() functions?
>>
>> Do we need to also implement a derandomizer block before we even can
>> start making sense of the bit stream?
>>
>> If we were able to get a byte stream with the framed AX.25 packets as an
>> output from GNU radio to our TCP server we can deframe them there instead
>> of in GNU radio, but we cannot get any output with this current setup.
>>
>> We have also looked at trying to get the GMSK Spacecraft Groundstation
>> project to work but the versions must be out to date because the files
>> located on https://www.cgran.org/wiki/GMSKSpacecraftGroundstation won't
>> make.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> --
>> Adam K. Gunderson
>> Space Science and Engineering Lab
>> Montana State University
>> agunder...@ssel.montana.edu
>>
>>  <agunder...@ssel.montana.edu>
>>
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