Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX 900 200mW

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Ettus
Vincenzo Pellegrini wrote: Hi everybody, just a simple question: does the RFX900 provide 200mW just out of the box? Do I have to take care of something in particular in order to obtain them? Actually, what are the appropriate gain values that I should pass to subdev.set_gain() n order to max

[Discuss-gnuradio] New Book on GNU Radio

2008-07-29 Thread Rakesh Peter
Just came across this while surfing around... http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071498834 ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] BBN 802.11 bbn_80211b_rx.py

2008-07-29 Thread Clark Pope
> "The problem we are overcoming is the USB data rate bottleneck, which is > limited to 32 MBps. Although this bit rate is high enough for many > applications of gnuradio, for an 802.11b receiver it is not sufficient, > because of the signal's bandwidth. The RF bandwidth of an 802.11b signal is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flipping problem

2008-07-29 Thread isaacgerg
If this is true, why is it that the residual carrier is reported as zero? Are you suggesting that this value is not correct? Isaac Matt Ettus wrote: > > isaacgerg wrote: >> I am sending a known sequence of samples from one USRP to another using >> the >> Basix RX/TX d'boards setting the freq

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flipping problem

2008-07-29 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:42 AM, isaacgerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is true, why is it that the residual carrier is reported as zero? > Are you suggesting that this value is not correct? I think all Matt is saying is that the two receivers are working off of different local oscillato

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flipping problem

2008-07-29 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, isaacgerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is true, why is it that the residual carrier is reported as zero? > Are you suggesting that this value is not correct? What GRC is reporting as "residual carrier" is not what you seem to think it is. It refers to how

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic RX. - usrp_wfm_rcv.py

2008-07-29 Thread rita pfc
Hello, I've started again from the begining. I have installed Ubuntu 7.1, not in a virtual machine. In a Pentium IV, 3 GHz, with 2 GBytes of RAM. I have done all this steps - http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/DebianPackages - . I run the dial_tone.py and it sounds ok, so I suppose that GNU Radio is ins

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic RX. - usrp_wfm_rcv.py

2008-07-29 Thread Brian Padalino
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, rita pfc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've started again from the begining. I have installed Ubuntu 7.1, not in a > virtual machine. In a Pentium IV, 3 GHz, with 2 GBytes of RAM. I have done > all this steps - http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/DebianPackages -

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Flipping problem

2008-07-29 Thread Bob McGwier
I agree with this analysis unless Isaac tells us he has a carrier and baud synchronizer in his system. If he is looking at raw output from the USRP, indeed the two oscillators (as they would in any real system) shift frequency over time and drift in and out of any phase relationship. Bob ARRL S

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channel measurements?

2008-07-29 Thread Nikhil
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mohammad Hamed Firooz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > That is not always true, actually it depends on when and where you are > going to measure a channel, For example in a office during a day, channel > could change several times in a second. > That's correct Ham

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX 900 200mW

2008-07-29 Thread Vincenzo
Thanks Matt! really precious answer.. actually, transmitting an 8 MHz wide signal at 820MHz without bypassing the ISM filter.. what kind of attenuation should I expect? ..I mean.. just a rough estimate of its magnitude.. thanks vincenzo On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:06 -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: > Vin

[Discuss-gnuradio] Question on OFDM

2008-07-29 Thread Brook Lin
Hi All, I am trying to do a multi-carrier transmission. I went through the benchmark_ofdm_tx.py and benchmark_ofdm_rx.py files. How can I set the specific subcarrier? Say, -d 32 --fft-length=512 --occupied-tones=200. What I understand is that a 2M bandwidth is divided into 512 subcarriers, and 20

[Discuss-gnuradio] modelsim help using megacells

2008-07-29 Thread George Nychis
Hi all, I am having trouble running a testbench in ModelSim which uses megacells. I added megacells such as fifo_4kx16_dc.v and fifo_1kx16.v, but when trying to simulate I get errors such as: Error: (vsim-3033) Z:/gnychis/fpga/usrp/fpga/megacells/fifo_4kx16_dc.v(89): Instantiation of 'dcfi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] modelsim help using megacells

2008-07-29 Thread George Nychis
George Nychis wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble running a testbench in ModelSim which uses megacells. I added megacells such as fifo_4kx16_dc.v and fifo_1kx16.v, but when trying to simulate I get errors such as: Error: (vsim-3033) Z:/gnychis/fpga/usrp/fpga/megacells/fifo_4kx16_dc.v(89):

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Basic RX. - usrp_wfm_rcv.py

2008-07-29 Thread Patrick Strasser
Brian Padalino wrote am 2008-07-29 17:07: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, rita pfc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've started again from the begining. I have installed Ubuntu 7.1, not in a virtual machine. In a Pentium IV, 3 GHz, with 2 GBytes of RAM. Much better, we do not support VMwar

[Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread yyzhuang
Hello, In the BBN 802.11 package, I see the scripts for receiver, and some lines of code for packet handling as well. == def rx_callback(ok, payload): size = struct.calcsize("@qHBB"); packet_data = payload[size:]; hdr = struct.unpac

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread masond
Inlined responses: Quoting yyzhuang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, Hi, In the BBN 802.11 package, I see the scripts for receiver, and some lines of code for packet handling as well. == def rx_callback(ok, payload): size = struct.calcsize

[Discuss-gnuradio] What's wrong with this constellation?

2008-07-29 Thread masond
Howdy list, My partner and I have been working on getting a QAM demodulator working on the gnuradio; the current patch, with lots of debugging spew still present, is located at http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~masond/gr-qam-patch-rev7.diff . The current problem: When the constellation 'loc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Sumorok
At 04:33 PM 7/29/2008, yyzhuang wrote: And what exactly the "time" is? As I see in the script, is it in ticks? means the time instance, or the inter-arrival time? "time" is a packet arrival timestamp, in microseconds, relative to the time the receiver is started. It is calculated by counting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread masond
Quoting "Y. Zhuang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks very much for help. So "@qHBB" and "@qHbB" actually mean the format that we should unpack this string, right? What is the differences between "@qHBB" and "@qHbB" then? and "@BB"? Thank you Yes. Basically, to summarize the python doc I l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread yyzhuang
Thanks. I think it should be something from the 802.11 frame over the wireless link. Since I see the time and other stuff are got from the packet, could you tell me how is the packet received from usrp (by sampling in the usrp?), what is its format? and for how we can actually do with it, is unpa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread yyzhuang
That's the point. But to unpack a packet, we have to know exactly its format. Hope someone can tell what format of the packet is. And what information can we get from the packets. Thanks everybody =^D Mason-29 wrote: > > Quoting "Y. Zhuang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Thanks very much for help.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_rx.py: how is the received packet handled please?

2008-07-29 Thread Dan Halperin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:14 PM, yyzhuang wrote: That's the point. But to unpack a packet, we have to know exactly its format. Hope someone can tell what format of the packet is. And what information can we get from the packets. The 802.11 packe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RFX 900 200mW

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Ettus
Vincenzo wrote: Thanks Matt! really precious answer.. actually, transmitting an 8 MHz wide signal at 820MHz without bypassing the ISM filter.. what kind of attenuation should I expect? ..I mean.. just a rough estimate of its magnitude.. What I meant was that if you are working WITHIN the IS

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What's wrong with this constellation?

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Monta
Hi Mason, ... The amplitude of the receiver output seems to spray out pretty widely from the constellation point intended. It could be an AGC issue---is the AGC time constant long compared with a symbol? Is the distribution of constellation points uniform (each is picked with equal probabil

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] decimate by less than 8 in standard FPGA of USRP

2008-07-29 Thread Firas A.
Hi, 1) Just use USRP FPGA file (firmware) that contains no halfband filter as in the following example: decim = 4 set_fpga_filename="std_4rx_0tx.rbf" # This FPGA firmware contains 4 Rx paths without halfbands and 0 tx paths. u = usrp.source_c(0, decim_rate=decim, fpga_filename=set_fpga_filename