Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone do you know good GPS receiver Method?

2011-11-30 Thread Nick Othieno
Positioning. :-) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Wolfarth, Ryan wrote: > I had never heard of fastGPS; sounds pretty useful. What is the end goal > for your receiver? > > Ryan > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > >> I am using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone do you know good GPS receiver Method?

2011-11-29 Thread Nick Othieno
I am using fastGPS to do the correlation as well as writing my own MATLAB correlation scripts. Nick On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Nick Foster wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Nick Othieno > wrote: > > Hi Ryan, > > > > What did you use for your setup, ie dau

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Anyone do you know good GPS receiver Method?

2011-11-25 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi Ryan, What did you use for your setup, ie daughterboards, antenna and LNA (if you do not mind my asking). I have been trying a setup for months that uses a DBSRX2 and a mighty mouse 2 antenna only, but I have never been able to acquire the L1 signal. I am wondering where I have gone wrong in th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Vec Length

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Othieno
not able to find the class that has the implementation of the member function real() in it. Nick On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 05/12/2011 10:18 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > What does the Vec Length parameter signify in gnu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Vec Length

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Othieno
I guessed so. However, I am stumped as to how to make my complex short a real short. Do I have to write my own code or is there a gnuradio-companion method? Nick On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 05/12/2011 10:18 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > > Hi all, &g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Vec Length

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi all, What does the Vec Length parameter signify in gnuradio-companion blocks? I have realized that Vec Length for the USRP2 source is by default 2 and cannot be changed on the GUI. How can this be changed to 1? In my case, I have set the USRP2 UHD source Input Type to Short. I am assuming that

[Discuss-gnuradio] A software-defined GPS and Galileo receiver: a single-frequency approach

2011-05-11 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi all, Has anyone successfully used the USRP2 (or even USRP) to capture GPS L1 signals that were decoded by the MATLAB software receiver in the book *A software-defined GPS and Galileo receiver: a single-frequency approach*? If yes, what USRP(2) config was used, and what data conversion techniqu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decimation Rate with a fraction part

2011-03-04 Thread Nick Othieno
Thanks MB. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:51:28AM -0500, Nick Othieno wrote: > > Thanks guys. The ideas looks theoretically sound, but for some reason the > grc > > setup I have created does not seem to like the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correctly installing UHD in Fedora 14 64-bit

2011-03-04 Thread Nick Othieno
Oops! My bad :-) On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 03/04/2011 06:02 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone managed to get gnuradio working correctly with the UHD driver > on > > 64-bit Fedora 14. I have installed U

[Discuss-gnuradio] Correctly installing UHD in Fedora 14 64-bit

2011-03-04 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi all, Has anyone managed to get gnuradio working correctly with the UHD driver on 64-bit Fedora 14. I have installed UHD (correctly I assume) in my 64-bit Fedora 14 box, but configure cannot detect it for some reason. I made sure that the path to libuhd.so was included in ldconfig path. In fed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decimation Rate with a fraction part

2011-03-04 Thread Nick Othieno
:39 PM, Ed Criscuolo wrote: > On 3/3/11 3:04 PM, Nick Othieno wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to get an output of 16.3676 Ms/s. Is it then possible to >> set a decimation values of 6.109631223? I am wondering whether >> decimation values have to be whole n

[Discuss-gnuradio] Decimation Rate with a fraction part

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi all, I would like to get an output of 16.3676 Ms/s. Is it then possible to set a decimation values of 6.109631223? I am wondering whether decimation values have to be whole numbers, or whether decimation values with fraction parts are allowed. The reason for this is that I am trying to mimic t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Don't find some primitive

2011-02-16 Thread Nick Othieno
Where does one get the uhd version of the FPGA sources? Nick On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > On 02/16/2011 09:33 AM, Gabriel Morel wrote: > > Hi, I finally managed to run ISE 10.1 on Linux to compile the raw > > internet version of the fpga project, > > but when I call 'ma

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] IS USRP safe for the human body?

2011-02-08 Thread Nick Othieno
Do I sense a Marie Curie in the making?\ On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > On 02/07/2011 10:17 PM, Songsong Gee wrote: > >> I'm trying to make an intra-body communication system with the USRP >> Thus, I want to attach TX cable onto the human body skin >> and transmit signals t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD graph for simple FFT

2011-01-29 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi Marcus, The file is unavailable. Nick On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > Here's a simple UHD FFT flow-graph that is reasonably > dynamically-configurable: > > http://www.srbac.org/files/uhd_fft.grc > > Cheers > > -- > Marcus Leech > Principal Investigator > Shirleys B

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Changing quantization levels in USRP2

2011-01-27 Thread Nick Othieno
yup! That's it. Can it be changed programmatically? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Nick Othieno > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Any USRP2 experts out there able to help out? > > > > Nick > > &g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Changing quantization levels in USRP2

2011-01-27 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi, Any USRP2 experts out there able to help out? Nick On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Nick Othieno wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to change the number of quantization levels on a USRP2 with > a DBSRX2 card? If yes, how is it do

[Discuss-gnuradio] Changing quantization levels in USRP2

2011-01-26 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi, Is it possible to change the number of quantization levels on a USRP2 with a DBSRX2 card? If yes, how is it done? Nick ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] LPDA orientation when receiving GPS signals on USRP2

2011-01-13 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi everyone, Does anyone know what the orientation of an LPDA (log periodic dipole antenna) should be when receiving GPS signals? Should the up-most element be the longest one, or should it be the shortest one? In other words ___

[Discuss-gnuradio] Unofficial Gnuradio Installation Procedure for Newbies on Fedora 14

2011-01-12 Thread Nick Othieno
A little something to help along the newcomers like me :-) Unoffical installation guide for gnuradio on Fedora 14, January 2011 (Note the gnuradio installation procedure may change and hence render this guide unusable) ===

[Discuss-gnuradio] The (in)famous channel 0 not receiving error

2011-01-12 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi everyone, I recently compiled and installed gnuradio. I then tried to find the usrp2: #find_usrps 00:50:c2:85::3b:5c hw_rev = 0x0400 Next I tried to plot an FFT of the GPS L1 signal (note that my daughterboard is a dbsrx2) #usrp2_fft.py -f 1.57542G usrp2: channel 0 not receiving usrp2::rx_s

[Discuss-gnuradio] Correct directory structure for /gnuradio/usrp2/fpga

2011-01-11 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi, I am in the process of compiling gnuradio for a USRP2 and when looking into the directory ./gnuradio/usrp2/fpga I came across a single README that had the contents: [gnura...@localhost fpga]$ cat README The FPGA directory that used to be here is now hosted at: git://ettus.sourcerepo.com/ett

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get started using UHD

2011-01-11 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi Jos, Output of git describe v3.3.1git-831-gbb438e7 However, I eventually saw gr-uhd. It did appear though I do not know when because I rerun the commands just to confirm. Thanks! Nick On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Josh Blum wrote: > > > [gnura...@localhost gnuradio]$ git branch --trac

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to get started using UHD

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi, I am trying to do the same thing and I realize exactly what his question is, since the results of the commands I am running do not seem to be leading me anywhere. Please read on :-) I have uhd already compiled and installed. Next I want to do the gr-uhd step so I try: git clone http://gnurad

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ben Ahrens wrote: >> >> Dig these two links, in order: >> http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki >> http://www.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/build.html >> >> Then just install gnuradio as usual. >> >&

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Thanks for the info. I will look into that ASAP! On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 01/10/2011 11:43 AM, Nick Othieno wrote: > >> Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. >> >> I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late Decembe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Wow. Slow down there. I am a newbie. I downloaded and compiled the gnuradio code sometime in late December 2010. However from your response, I am guessing I should first download (checkout), compile and install UHD, then finally compile and install gnuradio. (Just thinking aloud here but a confirm

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & DBSRX2

2011-01-10 Thread Nick Othieno
Hi everyone, Does one have to make any changes to the hardware when working with a DBSRX2 and a USRP2, as was the case with the original DBSRX? Are there any python examples that demonstrate how to work with the DBSRX2 on the USRP2? Nick ___ Discuss-gn

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can someone please help-Correct info about the problem

2007-08-04 Thread Nick Othieno
Yup that sounds like it. I have only 256MB of RAM. I'll try and get a 512MB chip. Maybe that'll help On 8/4/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:54:01AM +0300, Nick Othieno wrote: > > I have been trying to compile gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Can someone please help-Correct info about the problem

2007-08-03 Thread Nick Othieno
I have been trying to compile gnuradio on FC5 but when the compile reaches this point it kind of hangs. gnuradio_swig_python.cc:3995: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules It doesn't go beyond the above point and there is lots of disk activity. I even

[Discuss-gnuradio] Can someone please help

2007-08-03 Thread Nick Othieno
I have been trying to compile gnuradio on FC5 but I get the following error: gnuradio_swig_python.cc:3995: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules I have correctly yum installed all the needed packages. Nick ___ Disc

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting tar balls

2007-01-28 Thread Nick Othieno
I've been looking for the latest tar balls for the gnuradio components-gr-usrp,gr-audio-alsa,gr-wxgui,usrp,gr-usrp etc. The GNU radio wiki seems of no help. Where can I find them ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing lis