Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-30 Thread Kevin Reid
On Nov 30, 2013, at 8:22, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: >>/* don't divide by zero! */ >>if((y_abs < 1.5E-5) && (x_abs < 1.5E-5)) >> return 0.0; >> >> Since the preceding multiply_conjugate should square the magnitude, this >> choice of ep

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-30 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: > On Nov 30, 2013, at 2:09, Alexandru Csete wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: >>> >>> If the amplitude of the input to quadrature_demod_cf is less than about >>> 10^(-2.23), then the output samples are zero instead o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-30 Thread Kevin Reid
On Nov 30, 2013, at 2:09, Alexandru Csete wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: >> >> If the amplitude of the input to quadrature_demod_cf is less than about >> 10^(-2.23), then the output samples are zero instead of the demodulated >> signal. > > I tried your grc file a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-30 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Alexandru Csete wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: >> >> This seems like a bug, but I want to check first that I'm not having >> unreasonable expectations. I'm using GNU Radio 3.7.2. >> >> If the amplitude of the input to quadrature_demod

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-30 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kevin Reid wrote: > > This seems like a bug, but I want to check first that I'm not having > unreasonable expectations. I'm using GNU Radio 3.7.2. > > If the amplitude of the input to quadrature_demod_cf is less than about > 10^(-2.23), then the output samples ar

[Discuss-gnuradio] quadrature_demod losing weak signals

2013-11-29 Thread Kevin Reid
This seems like a bug, but I want to check first that I'm not having unreasonable expectations. I'm using GNU Radio 3.7.2. If the amplitude of the input to quadrature_demod_cf is less than about 10^(-2.23), then the output samples are zero instead of the demodulated signal. Since such an expone