Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-10 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > On 07/10/2014 05:33 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote: > > I think 'Magnitude' is better than counts, which is just confusing. > > There's a difference: 'Counts' implies the digital nature of the signal, > and 'Magnitude' cannot be negative. 'Amplitud

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-10 Thread Martin Braun
On 07/10/2014 05:33 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote: > I think 'Magnitude' is better than counts, which is just confusing. There's a difference: 'Counts' implies the digital nature of the signal, and 'Magnitude' cannot be negative. 'Amplitude' would work, but again, that doesn't imply amplitude-discrete

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-09 Thread Vanush Vaswani
I think 'Magnitude' is better than counts, which is just confusing. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:09 AM, jsam45 wrote: >> The vertical axis in Scope Plot is labelled as Counts. What does it mean? How >> is it related to the ph

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-09 Thread Sylvain Munaut
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:09 AM, jsam45 wrote: > The vertical axis in Scope Plot is labelled as Counts. What does it mean? How > is it related to the physical parameters of the signal like amplitude/power? It's dependent on your hardware. Basically 'count' is just the raw value and what that val

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-09 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Joseph (hope that's the right name, if not, please correct me ;) ), well, GNU Radio is software defined radio; the data it processes are simply numbers, so its unit is 1. If your signal comes from an ADC, then it *might be* proportional to Volts at the receiver; however, you usually do a lot of

[Discuss-gnuradio] 'Counts' in WX Scope Plot

2014-07-09 Thread jsam45
The vertical axis in Scope Plot is labelled as Counts. What does it mean? How is it related to the physical parameters of the signal like amplitude/power? -- View this message in context: http://gnuradio.4.n7.nabble.com/Counts-in-WX-Scope-Plot-tp49248.html Sent from the GnuRadio mailing list ar