Found this mail, it seems that the DC removal is still on implementing?  If
so, the tune request can not solve the DC problem at all?
Sorry for these questions, as I am really confused by the code and the
observed phenomenon.


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Josh Blum <j...@ettus.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/17/2012 05:09 AM, Sanat Gulvadi wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > How are the effects of DC mitigated in GNU radio? For example, if I use
> the
> > uhd_fft.py to just scan the spectrum, I do not see any DC spike at the
> > centre frequency. When I looked at the code, it has :
> >
> > r = self.u.set_center_freq(target_freq, 0)
> >
> > So I assume, it does not use the advanced tuning feature of UHD. Is this
> > correct? How, in this case is there no DC spike seen at the centre
> > frequency?
> > I am trying to code a scanning system that goes through the whole
> frequency
> > band of my RFX2400 dboard and at each center frequency, I grab a packet
> > from the air and apply an FFT to check for possible interferers etc. But
> I
> > am ending up with a spike at every centre frequency iteration. I have
> used
> > the two stage advanced tuning to try and push the DC leakage out of my
> band
> > of interest but I see no difference. I still get that single spike. (I am
> > using the UHD library and not GNU Radio)
> >
>
> There is a DC removal in the USRP, but it needs some time to integrate.
> Perhaps in the gnuradio case, you are looking at an FFT that has had
> some time to integrate at the new frequency. But in your finite
> acquisition case, there is no time.
>
> -josh
>
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