[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and daughtercards for sale - great deal

2007-06-21 Thread jsphjnk
Hello all, I'm clearing out the office and need to sell my GNU Radio setup. I have a USRP version 4(N0 Enclosure), BasicTX, BasicRX, and TVRX daughtercards. All are in good working order. The whole bundle cost me $800, with USRP ($550), BasicTX/RX ($75each) and the TVRX ($100). Will sell for $650 o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A rfx2400 is down, which chip on the borad is broken?

2007-06-21 Thread Lin HUANG
Hello all, Just update the status of our broken boards. Now they are fixed up. :) We replaced the amplifier chip, U4 MGA82563, with a new one. Then everything works now. Good luck HUANG Lin 2007/6/6, Lin HUANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'd like to report to all of you our investigation results. A

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread Matt Ettus
> > If there is no dc-removing capacitor in the circuitry , then should I > not expect that for a board using a single (positive) supply, that the > signal is always above zero? > No, you can put a negative voltage in, as long as it doesn't go below -3.33V. You need to look at the schematics -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
gnuradio.org appears to be down. Where can I find that flag, and how do I disable it? However, my surmise of the last post seems to be correct. When I substitute a regular Basic RX for the LF RX unit, the upwards shift goes away. This is I'm guessing because, as I hinted to in my previous p

[Discuss-gnuradio] Recommendations for USB 2.0 add-on PCI Cards

2007-06-21 Thread John Stralka
I'm running GNU Radio on a Dell Precision 530MT workstation under Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the system only has USB 1.0 ports. I installed an 6-port USB 2.0 add-on PCI card, but I only get a maximum transfer rate of 16 Mbps when I run "benchmark_usb.py" from "gnuradio-examples/python/usrp". I al

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Padalino
On 6/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a software flag in the code I can switch off? If so, where? http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UsrpFPGA Under "Common Registers": 15 FR_DC_OFFSET_CL_EN DC offset control loop enable Brian __

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Matt Ettus wrote: Oddly enough, usrp_oscope.py doesn't show any DC bias whatsoever, regardless of what offset I put into the function generator. Maybe it's removed inside the flow-graph? DC offset is automatically removed in hardware, but you can turn that feature off

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Matt Ettus wrote: Oddly enough, usrp_oscope.py doesn't show any DC bias whatsoever, regardless of what offset I put into the function generator. Maybe it's removed inside the flow-graph? DC offset is automatically removed in hardware, but you can turn that feature off

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread Matt Ettus
>> >>> Oddly enough, usrp_oscope.py doesn't show any DC bias whatsoever, >>> regardless of what offset I put into the function generator. Maybe >>> it's removed inside the flow-graph? >> >> DC offset is automatically removed in hardware, but you can turn that >> feature off. >> > Can you explain

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Don Ward wrote: - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:22 PM Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX Hi all- can anybody explain why the USRP/ LF_RX would seem to introduce a DC bias or offset to a signa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Matt Ettus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all- can anybody explain why the USRP/ LF_RX would seem to introduce a DC bias or offset to a signal generated by a function generator? I have a function generator configured to produce a 1 kHz .1 V P-P signal into a 50 Ohm lo

[Discuss-gnuradio] Undefined Symbols

2007-06-21 Thread jonshan
Hello, I tried building the trunk. After make install, I tried running some scripts like usrp_fft.py, benchmark_rx.py, ... It seems all of them have the same error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./benchmark_rx.py", line 23, in ? from gnuradio import gr, gru, modulation_utils Fi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread Matt Ettus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all- > > can anybody explain why the USRP/ LF_RX would seem to introduce a DC > bias or offset to a signal generated by a function generator? I have > a function generator configured to produce a 1 kHz .1 V P-P signal > into a 50 Ohm load. I have a Lecroy digital osc

[Discuss-gnuradio] offset at input of LF_RX

2007-06-21 Thread ematlis
Hi all- can anybody explain why the USRP/ LF_RX would seem to introduce a DC bias or offset to a signal generated by a function generator? I have a function generator configured to produce a 1 kHz .1 V P-P signal into a 50 Ohm load. I have a Lecroy digital oscilloscope configured with the in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help on editing a usrp1_source_c.cc file

2007-06-21 Thread Meenaktchi Venkatachalam
usrp_rx_cfile.py logs data using gr.file_sink and the output file is a binary file. Can I have a .dat output file? I guess for replaying data using the gr.file_source -> usrp.sink_c, the gr.file_source would be reading from a .dat file Thanks for all help Meenaktchi On 6/21/07, Dan Halperin <[E

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help on editing a usrp1_source_c.cc file

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Meenaktchi Venkatachalam wrote: > Thanks Tarun, this helped. > > Is there anyway to do the opposite? I have 16-bit I and Q data, I would > like > to send this data to USRP and transmit > > Thanks > Meenaktchi To log data from the USRP: usrp.source_c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help on editing a usrp1_source_c.cc file

2007-06-21 Thread Meenaktchi Venkatachalam
Thanks Tarun, this helped. Is there anyway to do the opposite? I have 16-bit I and Q data, I would like to send this data to USRP and transmit Thanks Meenaktchi On 6/21/07, Tarun Tiwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/21/07, Meenaktchi Venkatachalam < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I

[Discuss-gnuradio] ATSC at the code repository

2007-06-21 Thread Benedikt Raming
Hello, beside trying to solve my still existing problem to build wxgui I tried to set up the atsc transmitter/receiver as listed in the README.signal_flow, but I'm not able to find several blocks. I couldn't find GRWeaverModHead VSB modulator and GRWeaverModTail VSB modulator. The following que

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bug in wfm_rcv_pll and fix, who has stereo FM specs/info and noise and gain issues

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Dvh
Hew How Chee wrote: > Hi, > > This document might be useful. > > RECOMMENDATION ITU-R BS.450-3 > Transmission standards for FM sound broadcasting at > VHF Is it downloadable somewhere? I already found that this is the standard I need, but could not find a place where I could download it. Gree

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error in my first USRP test

2007-06-21 Thread Tarun Tiwari
On 6/21/07, Alaelddin Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it works now, thank you But, when I tried to run usrp_spectrum_sense.py I got this $ python usrp_spectrum_sense.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "usrp_spectrum_sense.py", line 9, in ? from usrpm import usrp_dbid ImportErr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help on editing a usrp1_source_c.cc file

2007-06-21 Thread Tarun Tiwari
On 6/21/07, Meenaktchi Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In the '../gr-usrp/src/usrp1_source_c.cc' file there is a function 'copy_from_usrp_buffer'. I would like to analyze the complex signal converted from 16-bit interleaved I and Q signal. You can try ../gnuradio-examples/pytho

[Discuss-gnuradio] Help on editing a usrp1_source_c.cc file

2007-06-21 Thread Meenaktchi Venkatachalam
Hi, In the '../gr-usrp/src/usrp1_source_c.cc' file there is a function 'copy_from_usrp_buffer'. I would like to analyze the complex signal converted from 16-bit interleaved I and Q signal. I have changed the 'usrp1_source_c.cc' file to open a file using fstream class and copy the complex signal

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tx/Rx in the 144 MHz (2m) band

2007-06-21 Thread Lee Patton
I'm sure this has been previously discussed on the list, but I can't find the discussion in the archives... I want to transmit and receive in the 144 MHz (2m) band, but there isn't a daughterboard available for that band. 144 MHz will alias to 16 MHz with a 64 MHz sampling frequency. So, sub-nyq

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Spectral smoothing

2007-06-21 Thread Trond Danielsen
2007/6/21, Aadil Volkwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, i'd like to do spectral smoothing on an FFT in real time through GNU_RADIO. Is there a function that will allow me to do this in the GNU_RADIO modules? If not has anyone attempted it before, or have any suggestions as to how I should go about i

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT Spectral smoothing

2007-06-21 Thread Aadil Volkwin
Hi, i'd like to do spectral smoothing on an FFT in real time through GNU_RADIO. Is there a function that will allow me to do this in the GNU_RADIO modules? If not has anyone attempted it before, or have any suggestions as to how I should go about implementing it myself. Perhaps any ideas of cas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parameters for USRP (motherboard only) FM receiver

2007-06-21 Thread Trond Danielsen
2007/6/19, Shane Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am using the DBSRX board. I have actually gotten the receiver working more or less through trial and error, but I have yet to do the FM demodulation in Python. Did you read the specifications for the DBSRX board? The frequency range of this daughter

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bug in wfm_rcv_pll and fix, who has stereo FM specs/info and noise and gain issues

2007-06-21 Thread Hew How Chee
Hi, This document might be useful. RECOMMENDATION ITU-R BS.450-3 Transmission standards for FM sound broadcasting at VHF Regards, Hew --- Martin Dvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > can you give me a link to more info or the stereo FM > specs on this. > > > Greetings, > Martin _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bug in wfm_rcv_pll and fix, who has stereo FM specs/info and noise and gain issues

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Dvh
Matt Ettus wrote: >>>I would try this with the regular (non-PLL) FM demod. I think the >>>rolloff of the PLL tracking loop is what is giving you the lower gain. >>> >> >>Yes, that seems to be the problem. >>For now I switched to using the non-PLL FM-demod. >> >>Do you know if/how I can make a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error in my first USRP test

2007-06-21 Thread Alaelddin Mohammed
it works now, thank you But, when I tried to run usrp_spectrum_sense.py I got this $ python usrp_spectrum_sense.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "usrp_spectrum_sense.py", line 9, in ? from usrpm import usrp_dbid ImportError: No module named usrpm what is wrong now please. Don Ward