Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Probable pulsar observing success at CCERA

2016-12-01 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Marcus, Brilliant. I am in the middle of assembling my own radio telescope, but had not thought Pulsar reception would be possible. I have a couple of questions on the RF Hardware. I see from some other updates, that the antenna is essentially sets of a 4 bay HDTV antenna. How are you phasin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Block for Doppler shift correction

2015-08-01 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Wolfgang, You Wrote: On 01/08/15 09:17, Wolfgang Nagele wrote: Hi, I've recently needed to correct some satellite signals for Doppler shift. I found that there was no easy way to do this yet - so I've Interesting. The way I did it was the following (using predict, rather than gpredict):

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding Morse code

2015-03-06 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 06/03/15 19:19, Mike Markowski wrote: A few weeks ago I started learning my way around gnuradio and am making progress, but could use advice from experienced users. I've been making something of an online lab notebook recording my efforts in gnuradio at: http://udel.edu/~mm/gr/ At the v

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] BER over air

2014-12-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 28/12/14 19:08, Mostafa Alizadeh wrote: Again I think we need to remove fading channel before SNR estimation. Is it true? To answer this specific point (and Marcus is far more better versed than I in this science): More fading equals less signal, more noise at particular times, thus wor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] BER over air

2014-12-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 28/12/14 16:41, Marcus Müller wrote: I have to stress this: SNR is *signal* to noise ratio. Signal is what your application defines to be signal! _THIS_ The Signal is what you want to hear. Whether that be a nice square wave from MSF, DCF, WWV, or where ever at a nice 1bps, or 802.11 PSK,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Affinity vs Hier Blocks

2014-11-11 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Tom, On 10/11/14 19:39, You wrote: No, right now, when the hier_block affinity value is set, it forces all blocks within it to that value for the processor affinity. The individual settings on blocks do not supersede this setting. Part of the reason is how this stuff is managed inside of the

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM and FEC

2014-11-11 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, I am attempting to get some FEC working with my GRC OFDM Transmitter and Receiver, which I created by modifying the example versions. You can see the flowgraphs at: http://hal.g7iii.net/GRC/OFDM/ofdm_rx_fcd.grc - GRC FCD RX Flowgraph http://hal.g7iii.net/GRC/OFDM/ofdm_rx_fcd.grc.png -

[Discuss-gnuradio] CPU Affinity vs Hier Blocks

2014-10-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, A quick question on CPU affinity when using hier blocks. I can set the affinity in each of the blocks that makes up the heir block, but I can also set it once I instantiate my hier block in my main flowgraph. Anyone know the behaviour in this case ? If I leave all the blocks within the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK demodulator and Doppler

2014-09-03 Thread Iain Young, G7III
I use predict, the xmlrpc server, and it bit of glue code for twiddling the FIR filter's offset for my Funcube and NOAA receivers to account for doppler. Allows me to have tighter BPFs (well LPF's really), although does mean I need to remember to update the TLE's from time to time! Biggest probl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New GR Tutorials Posted

2014-08-12 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 12/08/14 12:41, jmfriedt wrote: I am completing a summary of this summer's experiments including * decoding weather satellite and the opportunity to introduce channelized decoding (Frequency Xlating FIR Filter) I guess you mean the NOAA POES Fleet, transmitting APT on around 137MHz ? Or are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wxPython 3.0 breaks wxGUI

2014-06-15 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, Sorry to be late with my two penneth, but I am still in catch up mode from vacation. On 13/06/14 03:52, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 06/12/2014 10:43 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: In one sense, this is a low priority because we are moving away from using the wx sinks in favor of the qt sinks

[Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding TDF's Phase Modulated Time Signal

2014-05-22 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, I am continuing with developing my SDR radio clocks. TDF uses Phase Modulation (Details Here[1] and Here [2]), and I'm coming up against my limits of understanding, so am after some pointers or at least confirmation that I'm doing it wrong or am on the right path from those better ver

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MSF/DCF/RBU Time Station Receiver Implementation

2014-05-16 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Lou, You Wrote: On 15/05/14 23:28, madengr wrote: Iain Young, G7III wrote I lashed up a quick Goertzel filter at 250Hz, and re-tuned so I was 250Hz off from MSF. Hacked up some code to actually decode the output of GRC to the timecode bits for MSF. It decodes perfectly, even without

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MSF/DCF/RBU Time Station Receiver Implementation

2014-05-15 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 15/05/14 20:30, Marcus Leech wrote: I worked on a WWVB receiver a few years back. Then realized that I'm in an apparent "null" in the WWVB transmit pattern. Even my commercial WWVB clocks cannot receive it. Sigh. Ah, that's unfortunate, to say the least. And now they've gone and comp

[Discuss-gnuradio] MSF/DCF/RBU Time Station Receiver Implementation

2014-05-15 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Everyone, In recent days I had the idea to plug my LF preamp and antenna into my 192k Soundcard. Even with Nyquist being his usual pain, that still gives me DC to 96kHz. Perfect for certain time stations :) I lashed up a linear receiver, put it on 59kHz, and what do I hear ? "pip pip pip" fro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Streaming Funcube Dongle Pro+ over UDP

2013-08-09 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 08/08/13 17:52, Vanush Vaswani wrote: > So the receiver begins with a sample rate of 48 KHz? So how is it > possible to FM demodulation this case? No, that's my transmit chain (assuming you are referring to my GUI_TRX_JACK flowgraph) The (Simplified) FM RX chain in the same flowgraph goes th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Streaming Funcube Dongle Pro+ over UDP

2013-08-08 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 09/08/13 00:22, Vanush Vaswani wrote: Hi, If i add a rational resampler to match the audio rate before the UDP sink, I can get a continuous output, but it's of terrible quality due to the loss of information. You are always going to have to throw information away. You have 192k that you are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Xlate FIR filter broken in gr 3.7

2013-08-08 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 08/08/13 21:14, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On 08/08/2013 01:01 PM, Andrew Davis wrote: It's not just you, I noticed this too. This change broke gr-atsc ( but I fixed that ). The problem is on line 80 of gr-filter/lib/freq_xlating_fir_filter_XXX_impl.cc.t: the 2 was not negative in 3.6 but is no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Streaming Funcube Dongle Pro+ over UDP

2013-08-08 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Different parts of the flow graph can have different sample rates. You need to use the rational resampler so it's output matches what your soundcard expects. You may also need a complex to real somewhere. There are plenty of examples for a FM receiver on the web. Best Regards Iain On 08/08/1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] linking Gnuradio and Gpredict ?

2013-07-22 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 22/07/13 12:31, M Dammer wrote: Is it possible to link Gnuradio and Gpredict ? I want to use Gpredict as tracker controlling the antenna position and to pass doppler corrected frequency data to Gnuradio. In a word, yes. Can be very simple. I did it by using an XML Server in the flow graph,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Meetup in London?

2013-06-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Tom, I'm up for that. The Tuesday or Thursday are both good for me, just let me know where and when, and I'll sort out how to get there (I live approx 1 hour by train from London) Iain On 21/06/13 15:10, Tom Rondeau wrote: Hi everyone, I'll be in London the week of July 8 for a few lectur

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WX GUI Chooser

2013-05-16 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 16/05/13 22:56, Mark McCarron wrote: Can't find this info anywhere, does anyone know the format for the 'labels' section of this control? They are strings. Something like: ["LABEL-1","LABEL-B","LABEL-3"] Iain ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list D

[Discuss-gnuradio] Attempts at Receiving and Decoding MSF

2013-05-05 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, I have been spent the last couple of days working on agnuradio flowgraph to receive the MSF Time Signal here in the UK on 60kHz, using it as a learning experience. I'm hoping that I can eventually use similar code to receive DCF and also RBU, and the compare the results from my hardwa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Source block for the funcube pro plus

2013-04-01 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 31/03/13 23:29, Alexandru Csete wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Volker Schroer wrote: Just for your information: In imitation of the gr-fcd source I set up a gnuradio source for the funcube pro+ ( linux only) . To avoid the crashes depending on libusb I used the hidraw driver. Th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Source block for the funcube pro plus

2013-04-01 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Volker, You Wrote: I tested against 3.6.4, gentoo 64 bit. I'm not very familiar with cmake, so perhaps the cmake code may be improved. Can you send me the error message ? I think it was just my set of multiple/semi broken trees of various 3.6.x branches, precog etc that was confusing cmake

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Source block for the funcube pro plus

2013-03-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Volker You Wrote: In imitation of the gr-fcd source I set up a gnuradio source for the funcube pro+ ( linux only) . To avoid the crashes depending on libusb I used the hidraw driver. The source and an example can be found on Great, thanks for this, what version of gnuradio is it based of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Raspberry Pi Activity?

2013-01-17 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 17/01/13 14:53, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: The rPI CPU is so anemic, that running a GR stack on it doesn't make much sense. Perhaps just a data-gathering part, connected to some hardware, forwarding samples to somewhere else. I tested that using a TCP/UDP source/sink for bigger iron to conne

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PMR446 Receiver in GNU Radio Companion

2012-12-20 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 20/12/12 17:52, Sajjad Safdar wrote: I have build an PMR446 Receiver in GNU Radio Companion. I can detect the channel and also demodulate it, but the quality of the receiver is not that much good. I want to amplify my received signal, Anyone have suggestion how to do it. If I read your flow

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Introduction to Pre-Cog

2012-10-08 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi John, You Wrote: Looking for thoughts, feedback, and ideas. [and of course, bug reports] I just very quickly installed gr-precog under gnuradio-3.6.2. Installed fine, but when starting grc, I noticed the following: It seems that after installation, quite a lot of the sinks and sources are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-extras: tuntap : How to use ?

2012-10-04 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 03/10/12 18:57, Josh Blum wrote: On 10/03/2012 10:21 AM, Iain Young, G7III wrote: I found the tuntap block, and noticed that it had an input and output. I was expecting my flowgraph to take the userspace end of the network interface, with the other end being the network device. I found

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-extras: tuntap : How to use ?

2012-10-03 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, Finally getting around to playing with some of the stuff in gr-extras. Having compiled 3.6.2, and the extras, I found the tuntap block, and was hoping to use it to implement some RF Networking with the GMSK modules. I found the tuntap block, and noticed that it had an input and output

[Discuss-gnuradio] Initial Raspberry Pi Experiments

2012-08-05 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, Following on from the posts over the last few days on compiling GNURadio for the Raspberry Pi, and having just taken delivery of mine, I thought I would give it a go. Having installed Raspian, I managed to get UHD and GNURadio compiled and installed. This took the better part of 24 hou

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ESTCube-1 satellite receiver with AX.25 decoder

2012-08-04 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hey Martin, You Wrote: Posted ESTCube-1 satellite receiver on CGRAN. The code should compile and work on the 3.6.1 GNU Radio version. This includes standard AX.25 decoder block. Thanks for that. Managed to get it installed and running. Should be very useful - If I can ever work out what I nee

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power amplifier

2012-05-02 Thread g7iii
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Luca Pascale wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone suggest me a power amplifier to use with usrp+wbx on the > 434 MHz band ? (I need a small output power...from 2 to 5 W). I had exactly the same need as you, although I did want a bit more power, but couldn't f

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-22 Thread g7iii
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:46:51PM -0800, Josh Blum wrote: > > On 02/21/2012 03:30 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > > > Yup, the precipitating characteristic appears to be that both TX and RX > > facilities are in use on the same USRP1. > > > > I was able to reproduce here with a trivial flow-graph

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 21/02/12 23:04, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Sure can. Graph is as follows: [Null Source] ---> [UHD SINK] [UHD Source] ---> [Null Sink] Results are as follows: Options Block/Generate Options set to QT-GUI : Runs Fine Options Block/Generate Options set to WX-GUI : SEGV Options Block/Generate Opt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 21/02/12 22:20, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Hmmm, I had a simultaneous send/receive app on USRP1 a few weeks ago that SEGVed. I didn't have time to investigate. But perhaps this is the same issue? Could you reduce it to UHD+"stuff"+innocuous sink -- does that work? Sure can. Graph is as follows

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the pointers, You Wrote: I'm willing to bet that your segfault comes from our friend OpenGL: Try this before you start your application: export "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" Tried it, no improvement. Also try updating to latest master for Gnu Radio and UHD. If you're on

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Source -and- Sink In Same GRC Flowgraph ?

2012-02-21 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, I'm having some fun and games with gnuradio, a USRP1, and trying to transmit and receive at the same time, using gnuradio-companion. A Simple [UHD SOURCE] > [UHD SINK] works perfectly, but when I start to try to do other things, I get a Segmentation Fault from somewhere. Even some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Audiio source/sink ( Was Like writing DSP code? Hate editing makefiles?)

2012-01-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
On 28/01/12 12:19, Alexandru Csete wrote: I think you misunderstand. The jack audio block is intended to be a backend, as are all other audio subsystems. They are all accessed via one unified API, which is already available as python and GRC block (audio sink/source). The application doesn't kno

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Like writing DSP code? Hate editing makefiles?

2012-01-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Martin, You Wrote: Example: you want to create a new module called 'mydsp' and add two blocks 'mydsp_algorithm1_ff' and 'mydsp_algorithm2_cc'. The first one is a sync block, the second a hier block. Also, you'd like bindings for GRC. This is what it might look like: I must confess I am no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC squelch block with separate control signal?

2012-01-27 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi John et al, First, my apologies for waking up this very old thread. Only the other night I had one of those "lightbulb" moments, as I have been trying to implement something similiar for a while myself. On 07/09/11 12:58, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Tom Rondeau said the following on 09/0

[Discuss-gnuradio] UHD, USRP1, and Twin WBX's

2012-01-24 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Guys, I have a USRP1, with a two WBX boards installed. I'm trying to use the UHD source to get a stream from both WBX boards at the same time in grc. Do I need two UHD sources in my flow graph ? Or is there a way to get a single UHD Source to give me two outputs in the way I want ? Any one kn

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr-audio selecting jack automatically over ALSA ?

2011-08-07 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Folks, Finally got around to compiling the latest git version of gnuradio, (well from August 4th), so I can try out my new FunCube dongle. Got it all compiled and configured to my satisfaction. Was surprised to see it try and start jackd when I fired up Alex's FCD sample application. I was ab

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Multiplexing modulators

2011-06-28 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hey John, On 24/06/11 15:06, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Marcus D. Leech said the following on 06/21/2011 07:54 PM: > >> I have an example, in GRC, attached. >> >> It uses an audio source, which is common to all three modulators, this >> goes to a fractional interpolator to interpolate up to the

Fwd: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new feature work: qtgui support in grc

2011-03-20 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Rsending, since my original email seemed to have gone into the black hole... Original Message Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new feature work: qtgui support in grc Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:32:57 + From: Iain Young, G7III To: Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Hey Josh On 02/03

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new feature work: qtgui support in grc

2011-03-19 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hey Josh On 02/03/11 01:52, You wrote: I have been working on supporting PyQt widgets and the qtgui sinks in the Gnuradio Companion. Get the code on my wip/qtgui/grc branch on jblum.git http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/log/?h=wip/qtgui/grc I finally got some time to take a look, but it look

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problems creating my own GRC blocks

2011-01-23 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hey Josh, First, Thanks for the reply. You Wrote: On 23/01/11 19:46, Josh Blum wrote: Predict Doppler get_doppler Misc from predict get_doppler it has to validate block.dtd, the... should be after... I just tried that, no change unfortunately. Is that all I've m

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problems creating my own GRC blocks

2011-01-23 Thread Iain Young, G7III
Hi Guys, I am trying to add my own block to GRC for Doppler correction. To be honest, the code itself is a very simple python UDP Client that talks to predict. The code itself works fine, and talks to predict. So I decided to create a block for GRC. This is the XML for the block: Predict