How much attenuation do you have in the path between the TX and RX? What daughtercards? Two separate USRPs, or a single, looped back?
If you turn the RX gain up, does the RX FFT change? Are you on the RX2 port on the RX side? On 2015-10-26 15:33, Washbourne, Logan wrote: > I looked at the spectrums of both sides and the RX side looks to be inundated > with a lot of noise. I'm not sure if its my environment or my USRPs, but I > really expected to see some resemblance of a signal. I am posting links to > screencaps of the TX and RX sides. > > http://imgur.com/GBTHw8T- [2] TX > http://imgur.com/DBy8gqs [3] - RX > > Logan Washbourne Electrical Engineering Graduate Student (Electromagnetics) > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> > wrote: > > Can you compare the TX spectrum with the RX spectrum? Maybe it'd worthwhile > to first look at at e.g. 500kHz of RX spectrum to see whether, due to > frequency offset, some of the wanted signal simply gets cut off; admittedly, > with 2S/sym that's not too likely... > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On 26.10.2015 19:16, Washbourne, Logan wrote: > I am using 250k! > > Logan Washbourne Electrical Engineering Graduate Student (Electromagnetics) > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> > wrote: > > Hello! > what's the sampling rate you're using? > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On 26.10.2015 18:38, Washbourne, Logan wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to take a step back from my previous postings and try a simple > approach to try and understand working with over the air communications with > the USRPs. Let me know if it would be better to post this in the USRPs-Users > list. > > I'm trying to have a simple TX and simple RX side so I can eliminate and > unnecessary complications. > > The TX side has the following flowgraph: Vector Source(preamble+data)->DPSK > Mod(DBPSK,2samples/symbol)-> Multiply Const(.707) -> UHD:USRP SINK(2.448GHz > center freq, 10dB default gain) > > RX Side: UHD:USRP Source(2.448GHz center freq, 10dB gain default) -> DPSK > DEMOD(DBPSK, 2 samples/ symbol, rest default values) - > file sink > > I'm checking the progress of the communication by looking at a constellation > plot that is connected directly to the USRP SOURCE block on the receiver > side. I'm getting a very elliptical shape, more spread out in the horizontal > direction but not by much. I'm also looking at the bits from the receiver > side in matlab and my preamble is not showing up. > > These were the same problems I had when trying to use a correlated system for > OTA communications. I feel like I'm missing something really simple. > > Does anyone know of a simple TX, RX grc setup that I can use to test my USRPs? > > Again, I really appreciate the help you guys give. > > Logan Washbourne Electrical Engineering Graduate Student (Electromagnetics) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [1] > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [1] _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [1] _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [1] _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio [2] http://imgur.com/GBTHw8T- [3] http://imgur.com/DBy8gqs
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