Also, my understanding for the PLL blocks were that they were ideal for
"strong carrier" signals like AM.  When I say strong carrier i mean a
signal that has an obvious carrier which isn't "hidden" under modulation..

Anyway, the GMSK block might be a good place to start.

-John

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:35 AM, John Malsbury <jmalsbury.perso...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> It doesn't have frequency correction - I can probably follow up with some
> ideas on how to implement that part.  But the GMSK demod might do OK for
> you initially.  It doesn't do anything intelligent to deal with the data
> shaping - its just a non-coherent slicer.
>
> If you want to design in GRC but keep your top-level application as is,
> you can use a hier block.  You can also use a command line parameter or
> other mechanism to select your demodulator at start-time for easy
> comparisons.
>
> [typed one handed.. my daughter has my other and]
>
> -John
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Luke Berndt <l...@robotastic.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for looking into it! To be honest, I am not really good at RF. I
>> based my code off the python code in gr-smartnet. The fsk-demod python file
>> is here:
>> https://github.com/bistromath/gr-smartnet/blob/master/src/python/fsk_demod.py
>>
>> It is quite possible that it just happened to work because of an error
>> that got patched in Gr 3.7.
>>
>> Are there some good examples for GMSK/FSK demodulation that I could
>> borrow from instead?
>>
>> Recreating this in GRC sounds like a great idea so I can scope along the
>> way. I will give that a try next.
>>
>> Thanks again for the pointers, fresh eyes are really helpful when you
>> have been staring at it for so long.
>>
>>  - Luke
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/17/2014 08:28 AM, John Malsbury wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> For the record: It might work coincidentally because of the rolloff-y
>>> shape of GMSK, but it's derived for and designed for common PAM/RRC, as
>>> John says and I wouldn't recommend it for anything else.
>>> To look up the math, I suggest Harris' works.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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