[Discuss-gnuradio] "When T.V. Watches You"

2005-05-11 Thread Krzysztof Kamieniecki
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001545.html -- Krzysztof Kamieniecki callsign:KB1KLB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 11 May 2005 23:49, James Cooley wrote: > In the other window, do: > #> gzip -dcf data.gz > testfifo > > > > Seems to work barely on my laptop, which is a 1.6 GHz pentium M > machine HOWEVER, to aid things along even more, I did the captures > without using X-windows (you don't need it i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 12 May 2005 01:08, cswiger wrote: > Daniel & James (et al) - Firewire or USB drive looks the way to go, > with compression in the stream (Tks James). I've found a world of > 12vdc input ATX power supplies are available, like: > > http://www.orbitmicro.com/products/power%20supplies/dc-dc/ps2

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: RF Analysis

2005-05-11 Thread Admin
Hi John Thanks for the tip, but as you guessed, I am looking for something a little more professional and turnkey so to speak. The system alone, would need to handle and log over 24hours of spectrum traces for analysis and comparison etc. If anyone has any further ideas I'd sure appreciate them.

[Discuss-gnuradio] scopesink / fftsink fixes

2005-05-11 Thread Eric Blossom
Thanks to the troubleshooting efforts of Jon Jacky, we've now got scope and fft sinks that work reliably on OS/X. [There was a problem with os.read returning a short read count.] I've also added a gr.throttle(itemsize, sample_rate) block that limits the average sample rate through the block

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Ettus
> Looking for faster/bigger portable storage. The Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 > card will only do > 20MB/sec. For what you are doing, my suggestion would be to store 8 bit signed samples instead of floats or 16-bit shorts. You'll need a block to convert from 16 bits (gr.usrp_source_s) to bytes. You c

[Discuss-gnuradio] SIGBUS on test_runtime and test_vmcircbuf

2005-05-11 Thread Cap Romano (Imbel)
Hi, I am starting to use gnuradio and I was trying to get everything working. I downloaded from CVS bootstrapped, configured and made. But when I try to do a make check I get a SIGBUS on test_runtime and test_vmcircbuf. What might that be? I am using Fedora Core 3. Thanks, Romano __

[Discuss-gnuradio] Okay, issue with tvrx_* resolved

2005-05-11 Thread Robert W McGwier
tvrx_debug and tvrx_wfm_rcv_gui were written to call usrp.source_c with an argument for the mux in the form 0xf0f0f0fA where A = 0 or 2 depending on where the tvrx is located. usrp.source_c seems to have been modified to drop the requirement for the 0xf0f0f0f part. I have tvrx on both RX A an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF Analysis

2005-05-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I suspect the original poster was looking for something a little more sophisticated, but since Richard mentioned using a c program an visa, I'll mention the linux-gpib project which provides drivers and a more-or-less NI compatible library to talk to GPIB cards from several vendors. I've writt

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF Analysis

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Cagley
If you have a GPIB card, you can use a simple program like this to log data points in a range of spectrum. This was for an HP spectrum analyzer, but if you're using visa it shouldn't matter. // SpectrumSurvey.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" #incl

[Discuss-gnuradio] RF Analysis

2005-05-11 Thread SIGINT Admin
Hi I was wondering if any of you guys had links or pointers to general good quality RF analysis and logging software? Ideally it would be compatible with the likes of the gnu radio hardware, but could also be interfaced to drive an agilent spectrum analyser or similar Any tips or thought wel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Frank Brickle
James Cooley wrote: ...I'm sure there's a way to come up with a compression scheme that's tailored to the sort of sample data we see... A topic for a dissertation if ever there was one :-) In the general case, you're going to have to work hard to beat Ziv-Lempel. You might improve the performanc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread James Cooley
All, I've got a Targus 150W APV07US Slimline inverter and a Buslink external usb enclosure... works great. Only things are that the Targus lets out this ear-splitting beep for some unknown reason when it starts up Also, my car's a bit flaky in that it shuts off the cigarette lighter power a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread cswiger
Daniel & James (et al) - Firewire or USB drive looks the way to go, with compression in the stream (Tks James). I've found a world of 12vdc input ATX power supplies are available, like: http://www.orbitmicro.com/products/power%20supplies/dc-dc/ps2/KPDX250H.htm might run a small server mobo with b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread James Cooley
I have successfully used an external USB 2 drive along with the usrp, no problems. And that's with a USB hub with USB2 drive as well as a GPS attached and spewing data. There's a trick, though compression. You can make a fifo, ask gnuradio to write to it, and zip it. In one window, make the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:43, Chuck Swiger wrote: > for about 3 or 4 minutes each before filling up 20Gb free space. Still it's > nice to collect > field data for later slicing and dicing in the basement. > > Looking for faster/bigger portable storage. The Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 card > will only do > 2

[Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
First, that IS great news about the ccf filter code. Last Sundays trip to the mountaintop with a view of several states was interesting, altho too short. An 8Mhz wide plot of the FM band centered at 100Mhz is shown here: http://webpages.charter.net/cswiger/fm_mountain_top.jpg using a Radio Shack