Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

2008-09-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Stan Slonkosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD, in March 2006, said he had made a crude first >> version of a demodulator for the softrock. See >> http://www.zerobeat.

[Discuss-gnuradio] slightly OT: time-nuts and N8UR featured in wired

2007-12-11 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_hackers -- Ramakrishnan VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] RF hacking

2007-09-06 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
This week's LWN has a nice writeup on GNU Radio. It is currently a subscriber-only content and will be available for the rest of the folks next week. http://lwn.net/Articles/247347/ Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnur

[Discuss-gnuradio] cell-BE programming course at MIT

2007-05-11 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/index.shtml It is just launched in India and is priced way too high at about Rs 40,000 (1 USD ~= Rs 42.0). -- Ramakrishnan - VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

[Discuss-gnuradio] ARRL seeking comments on new digital HF radio protocol

2007-02-23 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/02/22/102/?nc=1 ARRL Seeks Comments on New HF Digital Protocol NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 22, 2007 -- The ARRL is seeking comments from amateurs concerning development of an open-source (non-proprietary) data communications protocol suitable for use by radio amateur

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] morse decoder

2007-01-09 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 1/10/07, Martin Dvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an opensource morse decoder (algorithm or program) which we can integrate into gnuradio. We could invent the wheel again, but I think there should be good algorithms out there already. There is an algorithm here:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] where is VrFileSink in gr-atsc?

2006-10-23 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 10/24/06, Kyle Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: README.singla_flow in gr-atsc directory shows a great framework for ATSC Tx & Rx. However, it mentioned VrFileSink & VrFileSource, on which I have no idea. I searched the whole package directory without finding their codes. Is there anything wron

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Any fast algorithm for computing square root?

2006-10-18 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan (VU3RDD)
On Thu, October 19, 2006 1:21 am, Dawei Shen said: > Hey guys > > A question not quite related to GNU Radio. Does there exist any fast > algorithm for computing the square root of a float number? In my > algorithm, > I need to compute the square root of a float number which ranges between 0 > and 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Debian packages???

2006-10-15 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 10/15/06, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > > libgnuradio-core0c2a > libgnuradio-core0c2a-dbg > libgnuradio-core0-dev > usrp > usrp-firmware > libusrp0-dev > libusrp0c2a > libusrp0c2a-dbg > python-gnuradio > python-usrp

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Embedded systems with gnuradio

2006-05-31 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 5/31/06, Philip Balister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am the maintainer for the usrp bb file in OE. It includes a patch that makes it work for USB1.1 interfaces. This patch may be a problem if you have access to machine with a USB2.0 controller. I should have time to update the version to a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Debian packages for 2.7 release..

2006-04-09 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I uploaded 2.7 -core and gr-audio{alsa, oss, jack}, -examples and -wxgui this morning into Debian Unstable. You can expect -portaudio packages to hit unstable archives soon. If you track Debian Unstable, this is the time to update. I also hope amd64 users will have no problem this time with these

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Plotting doubt

2006-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:10:31 -0800 || Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eb> It currently plots by drawing lines between data points. eb> You'd need to change it one of a couple of ways: eb> * draw vertical lines from the bottom horizontal axis to the right Y value. eb> * cha

[Discuss-gnuradio] Plotting doubt

2006-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I was looking at the fftsink.py and the plot.py that it uses. Is there a simple way to plot a graph with everything down under the points also filled with a colour ? I am trying to see if plot.py has a way to do that. -- Ramakrishnan ___ Discu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] multi_tone.py

2006-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 3/13/06, Berndt Josef Wulf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > multi_tone.py is now broken as it requires audio_portaudio and audio_jack > modules. > > barossa: {11} ./multi_tone.py -O /dev/audio > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./multi_tone.py", line 25, in ? > from gnuradio import a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gr-audio-jack - mono only?

2006-03-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi Stephane, || On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:15:56 +0100 || Stephane Fillod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: f8cfe> I hope you won't mind if I Cc:'d this message to the discuss-gnuradio f8cfe> list. Not at all. I should have sent the original email to the list in the first place. Sorry about that.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault in tests

2006-01-07 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 1/7/06, John Ackermann N8UR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After searching the archive, it seems that stack size may cause some > problems. My ulimit -s is 8192. I don't know if that's an issue in > this case or not. My ulimit -s is 8192 too. I am running Debian unstable on x86-64 running in

[Discuss-gnuradio] Debian packages of GnuRadio 2.6

2005-12-31 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
The 2.6 packages are in the unstable. I corrected a major mistake that I did in the past (naming wxgui binary as python-wxgui), it is now being called gr-wxgui. This was because of my misinterpretation of the debian python policy. -- Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD __

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GMSK at 768kb/sec and other good stuff

2005-12-02 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Fri, December 2, 2005 7:39 am, Dawei Shen said: > However, I could only understand the general framework so far. Could you > please provide more details? Especially which book or paper did you refer Dawei, Heinrich Meyer, et al "Digital Communication Receivers" has a lot of these details. Warn

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AM receiver front end

2005-11-06 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On 11/7/05, Gituma Nturibi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info on the softrock board by Michael sonds like something > that I can afford on my student budget- But the board is specified for > 7-12Mhz. does this mean that it can receive SW broadcast or is it just for > the amatuer bands

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK31 samples?

2005-10-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Wed, October 26, 2005 11:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There is a 60 second sample at 20 meters during a contest. Look for > PSK-31 down low along with RTTY. > > http://www.kd7lmo.net/ground_gnuradio_ota.html Thanks. -- Ramakrishnan ___ Dis

[Discuss-gnuradio] PSK31 samples?

2005-10-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Is there PSK31 sample captures available somewhere or can be made available somewhere? -- Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamically changing the flowgraph

2005-10-24 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:09:58 -0700 || Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eb> I think you're on the right track. Does the code below work OK? eb> That is, if you drop the reference to waterfall_block, does it work eb> OK. You mean the code I attached in the first post? No, it does

[Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamically changing the flowgraph

2005-10-23 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Folks, I am trying to implement a GUI frontend for the little Softrock40 board from amqrp. I have a very primitive but usable radio up and running. This is what I am trying to do. On the click of a button, the user should be able to switch from a FFT view to waterfall view. To do this, I stoppe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] alsa refusing to give requested sampling rate!

2005-10-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Mon, October 17, 2005 7:48 am, Eric Blossom said: > > Your audio card probably doesn't handle 48000 natively. > Try specifying plughw:0,0 as the audio device. I clearly remember using it at 48khz before. Anyway, I have one more soundcard with me, will try with that. Thanks. -- Ramakrishnan

[Discuss-gnuradio] alsa refusing to give requested sampling rate!

2005-10-15 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I am noticing that when I give a sampling rate of say 8 khz using audio.source or audio.sink, alsa always gives a sampling rate of 44.1khz. This is the message it gives out: audio_alsa_sink[hw:0,0]: unable to support sampling rate 48000 card requested 44100 instead. I am running the last rel

[Discuss-gnuradio] Vanu on GNU Radio

2005-10-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
An interview with Dr Vanu Bose. http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/04inter.htm -- Ramakrishnan ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Windows Version

2005-08-31 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:44:28 -0700 || Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eb> On the Linux side, there are *many* people who build the whole system eb> without problems. For ease of installation, I strongly suggest that eb> you stay away from Debian and try building on Mandriva (nee

[Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio 2.5 built with g++ 4.x in debian

2005-08-22 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Folks, I just uploaded the 2.5 version of gnuradio-core and all the other packages (wxgui, gr-audio-*, examples) into Debian Unstable. These are built with the new g++ 4.x package. Another good news is that wxgtk 2.6 is now in Debian unstable. So those of you who were waiting for it (after the a

[Discuss-gnuradio] wx multiple version

2005-08-21 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
It looks like something like this is possible in newer wx releases. I haven't tested it yet, though... import wxversion wxversion.select('2.6') -- Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org/ Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding!

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio-core make check fails

2005-06-28 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, June 28, 2005 10:30 am, Ges said: > Hi, > I am a newbie trying to build gnuradio...i was > following the instructions at > http://www.kd7lmo.net/ground_gnuradio_baseline.html. > > Well, after installing all the required base software, > i checked out the latest code from CVS... > > but make

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NTSC Demo

2005-06-21 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Wed, June 22, 2005 9:04 am, Prateek Dayal said: > Yeah .. this seems like a good idea because for individuals like > me purchasing a webspace is not a very feasible option and also > every contribution gets scattered that way. With something along the > lines of Matlab Central http://

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NTSC Demo

2005-06-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
For those looking into analog TV, there is another report and Matlab code from Stanford at: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee392j/Winter2002/projects/zimet_report.pdf -- Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Query about gr.float_to_complex

2005-06-16 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Thu, June 16, 2005 5:49 pm, shweta vishwakarma said: > > Hi all, > Please tell me what does this gr.float_to complex does ? Is it somewhat > related to I and Q phases? From: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/doc/gr__float__to__complex_8h.html "Convert 1 or 2 streams of float to a stream o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Install gnuradio error help request

2005-06-14 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
All the gnuradio related stuff is in the Debian archive, so with proper lines in the apt sources.list, you can install all of them. Also if you pull the sources from debian archive, you can look at the build-dependencies and also the configure commandline. -- 73 - Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___

[Discuss-gnuradio] TI's DRM solution

2005-06-02 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Lengthy URL... http://focus.ti.com/docs/general/splashdsp.jhtml?&path=templatedata/cm/splashdsp/data/dri300_350 -- Ramakrishnan ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] digests

2005-06-01 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Thu, June 2, 2005 9:38 am, Ravichandran_Shivakumar said: > Hi Eric, > Thanks for your reply.As you said I have gone through the > document which you have told and created my own class.Now I need to put > this on USRP board.We need to know where exactly we must put these codes > into to the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Debian packages

2005-05-30 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:44:10 -0400 || John Ackermann N8UR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jra> I'm trying to install via debian packages. I've added the gnuradio jra> repository to my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and have been able to jra> install several of the packages. However, I'm getting

[Discuss-gnuradio] Prof. Moglen's speech at linux.conf.au

2005-04-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
There is an article (only for paid readers at the moment) on Prof Moglen's speech at linux.conf.au. Here is a quote on SDR situation in Japan. I hope quoting a small portion of the article is "fair use". In response to a question about software-controlled radios: that is a global problem, not jus

[Discuss-gnuradio] More Samples..

2005-04-21 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Found these signal sample files on the web. http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/ -- 73 - Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] [OT] Alsa docs

2005-03-24 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Someone asked about ALSA docs a while back. I found a really nice site today about ALSA and thought of sharing with the list. http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundALSA.html -- 73 - Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] max_streams problem in own module

2005-03-03 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:34:15 -0500 (EST) || Charles Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clancy> Cool, that seems to work. Is there a derivative block? Something clancy> that takes float f(x) and returns float f'(x)? A filter with taps [1, 0, -1] works "satisfactorily" as a differentiator.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Hilbert Transform tutorial

2005-03-03 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
For those who do not read the excellent newsgroup comp.dsp, here is a link to a tutorial on hilbert transform that was posted today: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/p/h/physics/hilberttransforms.pdf -- Ramakrishnan ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] latest swig debian package source?

2005-03-03 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
It's in unstable, there were some experimental packages at pkg-swig.alioth.debian.org -- Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org Join FSF as an Associate Member at: http://member.fsf.org/join?referrer=255> ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing li

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: max_streams problem in own module

2005-03-02 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:32:33 -0500 (EST), Charles Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from gnuradio import gr > > from gnuradio import mypkg Just do import mypkg instead of importing it from gnuradio -- Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org Join FSF as an Associate Member at

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: ssb phasing demod revisited

2005-02-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:04:12 -0500 || Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cswiger> with one gr.freq_xlating_fir_filter() like I use in the weaver SSB cswiger> demod. I guess you can Chuck: Thanks. I had it initially, but while debugging the script, I replaced all with individual bl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB Phasing - working at last.

2005-02-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:34:31 -0800 || Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eb> Thanks. eb> Any reason you're not using the gr.hilbert_fc block? eb> I combines the hilbert transformer and the delay in one block. Eric, Here, the data to delay and data to hilbert filter are entirely di

[Discuss-gnuradio] SSB Phasing - working at last.

2005-02-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
ht (c) 2005, FSF under the GNU GPL v2 or later # Author: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Phasing SSB receiver based on block diagram from the article # "High Performance, Single-Signal Direct Conversion Receivers" # by Rick Campbell, KK7B, QST Jan 1993 # Progr

[Discuss-gnuradio] scope too slow?

2005-02-22 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
http://www.hackGNU.org/ Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding! #!/usr/bin/python # copyright (c) 2005, FSF under the GNU GPL v2 or later # Author: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # from gnuradio import gr from gnuradio import audio from gnuradio.wxg

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB Phasing

2005-02-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
I plotted the hilbert transform freq response, it seem to be fine. The earlier overflow error was because the filter response contained 0's and it was trying to take a log10 of 0.. -- Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org/ Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB Phasing

2005-02-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Followup of the previous email, I tried plotting the hilbert transform frequency response using the gnuplot_freqz script, but am getting math overflow error while doing the Numeric.log10 (). I will try plotting by other means like octave in meantime. Thanks -- Ramakrishnan

[Discuss-gnuradio] SSB Phasing

2005-02-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
onous detection # Donald ducking is due to difference in freq b/n carrier and LO. # copyright (c) 2005, FSF under the GNU GPL v2 or later # Author: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Phasing SSB receiver based on block diagram from the article # "High Performance, Sing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Weaver vs. Hilbert

2005-02-14 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, February 15, 2005 11:19 am, Thomas Traber said: > In hardware a Weaver modulator avoids > the need for the phase shifting baseband > filters. > What is the reason for using a Weaver > modulator See the thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2004-11/msg00119.html I am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bandpass filter aborting...

2005-02-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
|| On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:14:05 +1030 || Berndt Josef Wulf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wulf> try changing the value for the HI transition band to <=4000. Thanks. I do not get any exception, is there something else I need to turn on to see the exception messages? I just get the "aborting" mes

[Discuss-gnuradio] bandpass filter aborting...

2005-02-13 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi, I am trying to implement a bandpass filter. I have gnuradio 2.4 installed on my system. >From python cli, if I execute >>> from gnuradio import gr >>> input_rate = 8000 >>> coeffs = gr.firdes.band_pass ( ... 1.0,# gain ... input_rate, ... 1200, # ce