Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread Marcus Leech
David I. Emery wrote: OK, you confused me (awfully easy to do these days as I sink into senility) because I think of radar related events on a microsecond and not a second scale. Obviously more or less the only thing happening on a second scale is antenna rotation. And I believe when

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread David I. Emery
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:05:56AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > >>There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between > >>the main pulse > >>and the sub-pulse. The other 1350Mhz radar is much further away from > >>me, but > >>perhaps the "sub pulses" I'm seeing are coming from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread Bob Vincent
I have also used microdem with success. http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdem.htm At 10:22 PM 9/12/2006, Adam Porr wrote: >   I might also add that unless propagation is strictly line of sight > one needs more sophisticated path models to determine expected signal power.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-13 Thread Marcus Leech
David I. Emery wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:01:51AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: David I. Emery wrote: The transponders are 1090/1030 mhz and not 1350. 1350 is just radar. There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between the main pulse and the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-12 Thread David I. Emery
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:01:51AM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote: > David I. Emery wrote: > > > > The transponders are 1090/1030 mhz and not 1350. 1350 is just > >radar. > > > There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between > the main pulse > and the sub-pulse. The othe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-12 Thread Adam Porr
> I might also add that unless propagation is strictly line of sight > one needs more sophisticated path models to determine expected signal power. > -11 dbm sounds rather loud. If your current path loss calculator doesn't accomodate for terrain, you might give SPLAT! (http://www.qsl.net/k

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-12 Thread Marcus Leech
David I. Emery wrote: The transponders are 1090/1030 mhz and not 1350. 1350 is just radar. There are double pulses that I'm seeing, with variable timing between the main pulse and the sub-pulse. The other 1350Mhz radar is much further away from me, but perhaps the "sub pulses"

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Rick Parrish wrote: > *giggle* > > Marcus ... that's an aircraft transponder. Except for some vintage > 1930's aircraft that don't have an electrical system - every plane / > helicopter has one. Hit Google or Yahoo! for "Mode-C" and "Mode-S" > transpond

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread Rick Parrish
Here's a link on Mode A & C transponders (does not include newer mode-S) http://www.airsport-corp.com/modec.htm -rick ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread Rick Parrish
*giggle* Marcus ... that's an aircraft transponder. Except for some vintage 1930's aircraft that don't have an electrical system - every plane / helicopter has one. Hit Google or Yahoo! for "Mode-C" and "Mode-S" transponder. The ground radar "pings" the aircraft's transponder (interrogation)

[Discuss-gnuradio] Homing in on the mystery of Pulsy McGrooder

2006-09-11 Thread Marcus Leech
A little while ago, I posted a message talking about some "mysterious" pulse-like interference I've been receiving with my Gnu Radio/USRP/DBS_RX setup, using my radio-astronomy receiver software. I affectionately dubbed this signal "Pulsy McGrooder". Ok, so I'm a bit strange. Tonight, I di