Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Bastian Preindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately I'm not (yet) aware of the preprocessing (except for > downmodulation to baseband) taking place within the (ham) radio - what > _could_ happen to the signal? And what would be the optimal precondition for >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Multiplie top blocks

2008-05-09 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! During the buildup phase of my gnuradio scripts (in __init__ of classes that inherit from top_block or some classes that are initialized from a topblock instance), I try to use gnuradio to convert some data. E.g. I use gr.fft to do FFT on some constant data, or apply the function of some sp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] buffer allocation failed

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 9, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Eric Blossom wrote: You're probably running into a limit on the total number of shared memory segments in the system (SHMMNI) or the max segs per process (SHMMSEG). You can check the current values by: $ cat /sys/proc/

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Bastian Preindl
Hi Jonathan, many thanks for the detailed explanation! Johnathan Corgan wrote: That entirely depends on what has already happened to the signal prior to it arriving at the sound card. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) aware of the preprocessing (except for downmodulation to baseband) taking pl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Bastian Preindl wrote: > That are very good news for me! I'm aware about the relations between > SNR and BER - I just wonder about the several ways to estimate the SNR > in GnuRadio. That's exactly the information I lack of - do you have any > documentation/examples/sources for how to accomplish t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] buffer allocation failed

2008-05-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:42:35AM -0700, Dan Halperin wrote: > Hey, > > I know that the buffer allocation uses some memory mapping tricks to > make it efficient; is there some shared resource that this process > uses of which a computer should have a finite amount? I'm running a > process w

[Discuss-gnuradio] buffer allocation failed

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I know that the buffer allocation uses some memory mapping tricks to make it efficient; is there some shared resource that this process uses of which a computer should have a finite amount? I'm running a process with, oh, say 500 buffers (

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Bastian Preindl
Dear Jonathan, If you use the USRP, you will obtain a complex baseband representation of your satellite signal. From this, you will need to implement a demodulator for the particular signal involved. From the output of As far as I know there already exist demodulators for (A)FSK, BPSK and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Linux signals and forks in GnuRadio

2008-05-09 Thread Ed Criscuolo
Are there any special considerations needed to use Linux signals (in particular sigalarm) or forks from within a custom GnuRadio C++ block? Background information: I'm written a block that consumes an HDLC/MPoFR bitstream and extracts and forwards any contained IP packets. The block generates

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Bastian Preindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we're not the operator of the satellites, it is impossible to know > the data we'll receive beforehand and make a comparison afterwards to > calculate the bit error rate. So I have to count on information I can > gain

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: USRP / DBSRX calibration

2008-05-09 Thread John Ewan
Staffan, I am not sure how to post to the list, but.. I came up with a noise temperature of 2291. 5 degrees K. This would not make for a good front-end type receiver, but could work as a back-end. John -- Original Message -- From: Staffan Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu

[Discuss-gnuradio] Cell BE

2008-05-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On 17.11.2006 19:45 Eric Blossom wrote: > Re: PS3/Cell BE platform > > > Sounds like fun. > > And yes, I think we could get the HDTV receiver running in real time ;) > > Eric > > In light of the experience gained since then, is that still a reasonably attainable goal? The only thing stop

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gaining RSSI, SNR, CNR or BER information

2008-05-09 Thread Bastian Preindl
Hi, I'm a project member of the global education network for satellite operations (Genso, www.genso.org) and currently working on gaining comparable link quality information when having an RX communication with satellites. As we'll probably support GnuRadio on a broad base (both using a USRP or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest publications: about DAB and Soft-DVB

2008-05-09 Thread Vincenzo Pellegrini
Hi Rafael, prego! yes the link is correct but the video isn't online yet because i've had a few sync problems with the transcoding. I'll send you an email as soon as it's online.. best regards vincenzo 2008/5/8 rafael2k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ciao Vincenzo, > Grazie! > > Is the video link correc