John,

I use the BE FLL for auto-doppler correction in the rare case where I am
not actively correcting for doppler.  But, the correction is *really*
slow.  I'm probably not using it correctly, but it works OK in that rare
case when it's all I've got.

Very Respectfully,

Dan CaJacob

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:28 AM, John Malsbury <jmalsbury.perso...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Luke,
>
> I researched this for a bit  (OK, maybe it was more like staring
> blankly)... unfortunately on a windows machine w/out git.  Nothing stands
> out at the momentt.  I'll give it another try tomorrow! =)
>
> Also, I've never used the PLL blocks for freq demod before. Can you set
> something up with a graphical sink and send some snapshots showing what the
> output of that looks like?
>
> Also also, is the Band-Edge FLL ideal for GMSK?  My possibly, incorrect
> understanding of that block is that it was more ideal for PAM with common
> RRC.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Luke Berndt <l...@robotastic.com> wrote:
>
>> I just tried doing a complete PyBombs reinstall and that didn't seem the
>> help. I checked and simple GRC files run fine. I can also see the signal
>> where I expect it to be in GQRX, so I think my tuning parameters are
>> correct.
>>
>> Are there some other things I should try?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Luke Berndt <l...@robotastic.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a GnuRadio C++ program that decodes and records a SmartNet Trunked
>> radio system. It is running great under GnuRadio 3.6.5.1, but it doesn’t
>> seem to be working under 3.7.6.
>>
>> 3.6 is installed in /usr/local and 3.7.6 was installed in my home
>> directory using PyBombs. My updated program compiles against 3.7 with no
>> problem and runs. It will pick up a few of the trunking commands, so it is
>> working, but the ratios is about 1 to 100 compared to 3.6. I also tried
>> running it in a Ubuntu VM with 3.7 installed at /usr/local and had the same
>> results.
>>
>> I corrected for the change with XlatingFirFilter in 3.7, so it is the
>> opposite offset of 3.6. It looks like it could be a tuning error though,
>> the flow graph seems to be failing mostly at the CRC check. Did anything
>> else change with Blocks in 3.7? I looked at gr-osmosdr but I didn’t notice
>> huge discrepancies between the 3.6 and 3.7 branches.
>>
>> Are there some obvious things I could be missing? I feel like this is
>> something small and stupid that I missing.
>>
>> The diff between the two versions is here, smartness.cc is the main file
>> that decodes the control channel. As you can see, there is not that much
>> different:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/robotastic/smartnet-recorder/compare/master...3.7-Update#diff-73510702485a7dd2f7000285cbd5e557R40
>>
>> Here is the central code block that does it. Anything obviously dumb here?
>>
>> * float samples_per_second = samp_rate;*
>> * float syms_per_sec = 3600;*
>> * float gain_mu = 0.01;*
>> * float mu=0.5;*
>> * float omega_relative_limit = 0.3;*
>> * float offset = chan_freq - center_freq;  // have to reverse it for 3.7
>> because it swapped in the switch.*
>> * float clockrec_oversample = 3;*
>> * int decim = int(samples_per_second / (syms_per_sec *
>> clockrec_oversample));*
>> * float sps = samples_per_second/decim/syms_per_sec;*
>> * const double pi = boost::math::constants::pi<double>();*
>>
>> * cout << "Control channel offset: " << offset << endl;*
>> * cout << "Decim: " << decim << endl;*
>> * cout << "Samples per symbol: " << sps << endl;*
>>
>> *  std::vector<float> lpf_taps;*
>>
>> *  init_loggers(max_loggers, center_freq, samp_rate);*
>>
>> *  gr::msg_queue::sptr queue = gr::msg_queue::make();*
>>
>> * lpf_taps =  gr::filter::firdes::low_pass(1, samp_rate, 10000, 12000);*
>>
>> * gr::filter::freq_xlating_fir_filter_ccf::sptr prefilter =
>> gr::filter::freq_xlating_fir_filter_ccf::make(decim,*
>> *       lpf_taps,*
>> *       offset,*
>> *       samp_rate);*
>>
>> * gr::digital::fll_band_edge_cc::sptr carriertrack =
>> gr::digital::fll_band_edge_cc::make(sps, 0.6, 64, 0.35);*
>>
>> *  gr::analog::pll_freqdet_cf::sptr pll_demod =
>> gr::analog::pll_freqdet_cf::make(2.0 / clockrec_oversample,
>> 2*pi/clockrec_oversample, -2*pi/clockrec_oversample);*
>>
>> * gr::digital::clock_recovery_mm_ff::sptr softbits =
>> gr::digital::clock_recovery_mm_ff::make(sps, 0.25 * gain_mu * gain_mu, mu,
>> gain_mu, omega_relative_limit);*
>>
>> * gr::digital::binary_slicer_fb::sptr slicer =
>>  gr::digital::binary_slicer_fb::make();*
>>
>> * gr::digital::correlate_access_code_tag_bb::sptr start_correlator =
>> gr::digital::correlate_access_code_tag_bb::make("10101100",0,"smartnet_preamble");*
>>
>> * smartnet_deinterleave_sptr deinterleave = smartnet_make_deinterleave();*
>>
>> * smartnet_crc_sptr crc = smartnet_make_crc(queue);*
>>
>> * tb->connect(src,0,prefilter,0);*
>> * tb->connect(prefilter,0,carriertrack,0);*
>> * tb->connect(carriertrack, 0, pll_demod, 0);*
>> * tb->connect(pll_demod, 0, softbits, 0);*
>> * tb->connect(softbits, 0, slicer, 0);*
>> * tb->connect(slicer, 0, start_correlator, 0);*
>> * tb->connect(start_correlator, 0, deinterleave, 0);*
>> * tb->connect(deinterleave, 0, crc, 0);*
>>
>> * tb->start();*
>>
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