Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-08 Thread Samith Abeywickrama
Thank you very much Luca. I understood it very well. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Luca Pascale wrote: > Hi Samith, > I suppose as noise source you can use something like > http://www.noisecom.com/products/components/nc520-low- > voltage-surface-mount-noise-source-200-khz-to-5-ghz > or similar

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-07 Thread Marcus Müller
Well, since the phases are everything that contains any direction information, I sure hope they are not "approximately equal" for every point somewhere in the room, otherwise you couldn't do MUSIC or any other DOA estimator! On 09/07/2016 12:37 PM, Samith Abeywickrama wrote: > Thank you Marcus. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-07 Thread Samith Abeywickrama
Thank you Marcus. If I have a point source somewhere in the room, the channel gains (both magnitudes and phases) from the point source to 4 antennas should be approximately equal. Otherwise, we are not correcting actual phase differences of two USRP B210s. Isn't it? On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:21 PM

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-07 Thread Marcus Müller
Both, wired and separate transmitter, are viable solutions. If you use wired, you'd have to calibrate your cabling first, though, then calibrate the cabling used when attaching antennas against that. So, in the general case, you're probably better off if you just have a "point source" somewhere in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-07 Thread Samith Abeywickrama
Hi Luca, Thank you very much for your in detail explanation and it was really helpful for me. The question now I have is, how can I feed calibration signal? Is it a separate transmitter or some kind of wired link to usrp rx inputs? Thank you. Samith On Sep 7, 2016 5:11 PM, "Luca Pascale" wrote:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two USRP B210s with Octoclock-G (Samith Abeywickrama)

2016-09-07 Thread Luca Pascale
Hi Samith, to calibrate phase offset you can use a "calibration signal". Using a (phase) balanced power divider you can feed the 4 rf input with this calibration signal and use it to estimate differential phasors between the 4 channels taking one of them as reference (i.e. the first). You will hav