Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On 08/04/2010 09:17 PM, George Nychis wrote: Thanks for the help, Matt. I never actually knew what DC offset was until now ;) Learning as I go! From what I understand, the USRP2 scales between -1.0 and 1.0. I am trying to boost my transmit power well over the power of the DC offset. I think

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-04 Thread George Nychis
Thanks for the help, Matt. I never actually knew what DC offset was until now ;) Learning as I go! >From what I understand, the USRP2 scales between -1.0 and 1.0. I am trying to boost my transmit power well over the power of the DC offset. I think that if I increase the gain, the DC offset is a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-04 Thread Bob McGwier
That is an awesome amount of LO suppression in an SSB mixer based system (I mean the power 1/33-th of the LO). A more interesting number given this level of LO suppression would be the introduction of a tone (say) above the LO at LO+F and to see what the power is at LO-F (the image). Bob

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Ettus
The WBX can put out about 20dBm at 520 MHz. -55dBm would be 75dB below the desired signal, which is quite a good amount of LO suppression. If you need more, you'll need to actively calibrate the DC offset to null it out. Matt On 08/03/2010 12:55 PM, George Nychis wrote: The power of the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-03 Thread George Nychis
The power of the tone comes in to the spectrum analyzer at -55.6dBm On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > You are seeing uncompensated DC offset. What is the actual power of the > tone? > > Matt > > > On 08/03/2010 10:12 AM, George Nychis wrote: > >> I have a WBX, and I've n

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Ettus
You are seeing uncompensated DC offset. What is the actual power of the tone? Matt On 08/03/2010 10:12 AM, George Nychis wrote: I have a WBX, and I've noticed that no matter what I transmit, the WBX always introduces a very narrow (but full-power) tone at the center of my spectrum. When t