[Discuss-gnuradio] What is this?

2005-05-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Just installed SUSE 9.3 on a clean drive and am getting this problem. gnuradio-core goes first in the for-all-dirs list with ../buildit and this error is the first in the list of tests. I then tried making and installing the gr-gsm vocoder stuff first and this still results. I have fiddled with

[Discuss-gnuradio] A problem with today's uploads

2005-05-12 Thread Bob McGwier
I got today's updates and a new problem appeared but it was in an area of little (if any?) change. I got an explosion building gnuradio-core in the swig lib I recently installed SWIG-1.3.24. I got an explosion building gnuradio-core in the lib/swig in gnuradio-core. I backed off to SWIG-1.3.23 and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-pager build issue

2010-01-16 Thread Bob McGwier
Whenever this comes up, I need to do sudo make uninstall for whatever reason. Something that is in /usr/local/lib/gnuradio ... etc. gets in the way of the build. It is just too easy to do the uninstall for me to take time to figure it out. Bob On 1/15/2010 8:54 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrot

[Discuss-gnuradio] NO KNOBS, An interesting piece on army web site

2010-01-28 Thread Bob McGwier
http://www.twitpic.com/105rzu I wonder why it disappeared? Maybe coincidence. This was mentioned at the recent SDR Forum technical conference. SDR Forum has become the newest buzz word in town, Wireless Innovation Forum (you have to stay relevant right? You cannot believe how many times

[Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research, Inc purchase by NI

2010-02-06 Thread Bob McGwier
The endeavors of the those I work with has involved applying serious research in SDR with the aid of people at Ettus and other GNURadio developers. We have applied serious funding to Ettus Research, Inc. in particular and GNURadio in general. We have every intention of continuing this and exp

[Discuss-gnuradio] Rohde and Schwarz ridiculous patent app. Sorry Ulrich

2010-02-12 Thread Bob McGwier
This patent must be fought tooth and nail. It is loaded with art which has been done MANY times before. I will be personally taking this on as a battle for my employers but we need all guns blazing at the patent office. Lockheed, General Dynamics, and more have done SDR units with red side/b

[Discuss-gnuradio] Go New Zealand (Slashdot article through bit.ly)

2010-03-31 Thread Bob McGwier
http://bit.ly/bpwfa9 -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. “One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves" -Machiavelli Active: Facebook,Twitter,LinkedIn _

[Discuss-gnuradio] 2nd Edition

2010-07-22 Thread Bob McGwier
The 2nd edition of the REALLY expensive ($29.95) SDR book by friend and colleague, Behrouz Farhang-Beroujeny, has been released from lulu. It contains important additions (OFDM, more filtering, all known errata fixed) and I recommend it highly. http://bit.ly/cTU2cm Enjoy Bob McGwier (ARS

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] complex multiplication question

2010-08-04 Thread Bob McGwier
The SECOND ORDER Costas loop produces foptr(n) and poptr(n) which is the frequency and phase estimate for the carrier. sin(poptr(n)) is the estimated carrier. If S(n)*sin(poptr(n) is the spreading code modulating the estimated carrier, then S(n)*P(n) * complex_conjugate(S(n)*sin(poptr(n)) s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DQPSK bug or incorrect settings?

2010-08-09 Thread Bob McGwier
In a word, NEVER. No self respecting communication systems designer would allow that much excess bandwidth on the air or any realistic transmission medium. Typically 2-3 samples per baud is more than enough. You then use a polyphase filter bank based clock recovery tool to FIND the correct

[Discuss-gnuradio] Jack 1.9 official release

2008-11-14 Thread Bob McGwier
“ Future Jack2 will be based on C++ jackdmp code base. Jack 1.90 is the "renaming" of jackdmp and the result of a lot of developments started after LAC 2008. What is new: - waf based build system : Nedko Arnaudov, Grame for preliminary OSX support - control API, dbus based server control

[Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh

2008-11-18 Thread Bob McGwier
It appears that TI has withdrawn the free offering of a linux version of its compilers that I pointed out earlier (in October) at this link. This is very disappointing. Without free tools it makes no sense

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh

2008-11-18 Thread Bob McGwier
ge- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Brower Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:48 PM To: Bob McGwier Cc: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh Bob- > It appears that TI has withdrawn the free offering of a linux version of

[Discuss-gnuradio] TI open source tools

2008-11-19 Thread Bob McGwier
In the squeaky wheel gets the grease category, I have two things. The story about the removal of the open source Linux tools. It was a mistake and caused by disorganized placement of tools in their directory structure. The second thing is I have been given personal assurances from the people in

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI open source tools

2008-11-19 Thread Bob McGwier
TI open source tools On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Bob McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the squeaky wheel gets the grease category, I have two things. The >> story about the re

[Discuss-gnuradio] FW: [Linrad] Re: Ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-24 Thread Bob McGwier
Thank you Roger for the solution to the problem! Set your Visual Effects to none in Ubuntu 8.10 for efficient operation. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. " Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. ",

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tom Rondeau esquire

2008-12-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Dr. Tom Rondeau, formerly of Va. Tech., Trinity College Dublin, and now the Center for Communications Research has been given the "Best U.S.A. Ph.D. thesis of 2008" by the council of graduate schools in Washington, D.C. at a dinner in his honor yesterday. Tom has been a long time extremely

[Discuss-gnuradio] FW: [Jack-Devel] JACK 0.116.0 released

2008-12-05 Thread Bob McGwier
FYI ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Davis Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:02 PM

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fixing high pass filter design by optfir.py

2008-12-08 Thread Bob McGwier
I haven't looked at that code in a while. I will take the assignment. Maureen Quirk and I are doing a Octave and SciPy replacement for fdatool. Maureen has spent years writing FIR and IIR design code. We are updating it to use C++ as the code was originally Fortran and written for the Cray super

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Upgrade (downgrade?) to a Q6600 CPU

2008-12-10 Thread Bob McGwier
Are you taking full advantage of the multi threading now available? Are you running a 64 bit version of Linux? Have you tried compiling GnuRadio with the following flags? -O3 -msse -msse3 -mfpmath=sse The gain from the multiple cores is that more threads get "two thirds of processor" making t

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Upgrade (downgrade?) to a Q6600 CPU

2008-12-12 Thread Bob McGwier
l Yes", Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: Johnathan Corgan [mailto:jcor...@corganenterprises.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:49 AM To: Marcus D. Leech Cc: Bob McGwier; GNURadio Discussion List Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Upgrade (downgrade?) to a Q6600 CPU On Thu, Dec 1

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Customization of FFT display via C or C++

2008-12-12 Thread Bob McGwier
This is in the trunk now right? Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+rwmcgwier=gmail@gnu.org [mailto:discuss-gnurad

[Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-28 Thread Bob McGwier
I am running GnuRadio, SDRMAX, and PowerSDR on my new Intel ATOM 330 MiniITX motherboard. I had to put a firewire card in the single PCI slot. The integrated intel graphics are nice and spiffy (glxgears is at 800 fps if you turn off the desktop enhancements, no wiggly windows please). At 960

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-29 Thread Bob McGwier
olly Bloom -Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:dar...@dons.net.au] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:12 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Cc: Bob McGwier; hp...@lists.hpsdr.org; q...@yahoogroups.com; flexra...@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is N

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-29 Thread Bob McGwier
quot;, Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:dar...@dons.net.au] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:12 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Cc: Bob McGwier; hp...@lists.hpsdr.org; q...@yahoogroups.com; flexra...@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-29 Thread Bob McGwier
new...@vt.edu] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:05 AM To: Marcus D. Leech; Bob McGwier Cc: hp...@lists.hpsdr.org; q...@yahoogroups.com; flexra...@flex-radio.biz; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org; tim.newman...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE. There are many more ways than jus

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fedora 10 and svn head

2008-12-31 Thread Bob McGwier
I run Fedora 10 on my Quad core and boost 1_37 installed in /opt. I am putting it on one of my dual power PC blades and on one of my dual CBE blades for experimentation with SDK 3.1. I am attempting to work out all of the gotchas with F10 for this work. --with-boost=/opt/boost(directory of your

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thread scheduling for high-sensitivity, high-resolutionFFTs

2009-01-07 Thread Bob McGwier
>From what Eric has described (which should work), you have choices. The choices would be to increase sensitivity by adding the results of the fft's which is the same as producing spectra from long term autocorrelation which will increase sensitivity O(n) because it is coherent averaging or if you

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thread scheduling for high-sensitivity, high-resolutionFFTs

2009-01-07 Thread Bob McGwier
R Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: Marcus D. Leech [mailto:mle...@ripnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:00 PM To: Bob McGwier Cc:

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2009-01-11 Thread Bob McGwier
I did do the install. BEWARE, steps are required. PAY ATTENTION. You need to do a BIOS upgrade to the Dec. 2008 version of the BIOS. I chose to use the ISO to CD ROM and boot from the CD ROM. I tried several times to flash the BIOS and it never succeeded. If I hit F2 after reboot it said th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] checking for boost >= 1.35... no

2009-01-31 Thread Bob McGwier
Markus: In the root directory of the trunk, there is a README file that looks suspiciously like it will be the answer to your question. (as in README.building-boost) Good luck Bob feldmaus wrote: Hi All, i tried to compile gnuradio from trunk(2009.Jan.28) and got Problems with the boost

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 missing Quadrature samples

2009-02-06 Thread Bob McGwier
AHA!! (sheepish grin on face wondering why signals looked real because they are) Bob Leslie Choong wrote: Huzzah! It works! I did have the older Flex 2400 daughtercard so I moved the resistors around and re burned it. It now works great. Thanks to everyone who helped out, especially

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Filterbank stuff

2009-02-12 Thread Bob McGwier
Marcus D. Leech wrote: I'm toying with some insane ideas for EME (Moonbounce) for a friend of mine. I'm toying with taking a modulated baseband from a QAM16 modulator, and replicating it across several spectral pickets over a wide band, then on reception doing "something" with these redundant

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Filterbank stuff

2009-02-12 Thread Bob McGwier
WSJT uses portaudio directly and that can talk to jack through its portaudio host if jack has been compiled with that support in it. Bob Frank Brickle wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Marcus D. Leech > wrote: I'm looking into this for a friend who wants

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie need help with installing gnuradio 3.1.3

2009-02-15 Thread Bob McGwier
http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/BuildGuide When you have followed the instructions for your OS to the letter. Come back. Bob Chris Stankevitz wrote: Pete, How did you solve this problem: While running ./bootstrap, I am getting the following error: [r...@fodora gnuradio-3.1.3]# ./bootstrap

[Discuss-gnuradio] Intel ATOM WHOOAAAAA Nellie

2009-02-19 Thread Bob McGwier
Many of us have and love the Intel ATOM 330 boards we have. I have 3 of them! I want to ask those who do not see an immediate need for them but are thinking about getting one for SDR purposes, I want to tell you that "better things are arriving" as always. The Nvidia ION will address almost

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] audio_alsa_sink problem

2009-03-01 Thread Bob McGwier
What is needed IMHO is not extra documentation about GRC but to NOT USE plughw or require it when it is not needed. For those of us with sound cards like Delta or other many channeled things, this causes unnecessary burden on the complexity. Bob Josh Blum wrote: I will add a note to the d

[Discuss-gnuradio] Now wait just a minute

2009-03-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Competition is a great thing. Intel starts down the road towards attacking the mobile market and TI/ARM fire back. https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ This has an OMAP processor in it. $299 for tablet, $399 for notebook. Bob ___ Discus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct method for "compressing" a power spectrum

2009-03-09 Thread Bob McGwier
I suggest that the best algorithm for this would be the rank order mean alternated with the max so long as you are going to insert "heuristic grass". So it would be max, ROM, max, ROM, . Let [B1, B2, B3, B4, ... BN] be powers of five adjacent bins. Put them in rank order [R1, R2, R3,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct method for "compressing" a power spectrum

2009-03-09 Thread Bob McGwier
ook nice. Bob Marcus D. Leech wrote: Bob McGwier wrote: I suggest that the best algorithm for this would be the rank order mean alternated with the max so long as you are going to insert "heuristic grass". So it would be max, ROM, max, ROM, . Let [B1, B2, B3, B4, ... BN] be pow

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio 1.3.1 and SMP

2009-03-14 Thread Bob McGwier
Hew How Chee wrote: Hi, Quite some time ago, there are multi core scheduler testing branch for GNU Radio. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2008-07/msg00159.html Can I do the same with GNU Radio release 3.1.3 and follow the same instructions mentioned in that mail ? I have a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pls help me out

2009-03-14 Thread Bob McGwier
gnu client wrote: Hi all, I want to make a GNU radio by using USRP , pls help me out. Regards, Basha. So many new options, so little time. Windows Live Messenger.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Call for talks

2009-03-21 Thread Bob Mcgwier
think this is likely to be the last year as through the efforts of individuals, groups, and companies, we are entering mainstream territory. Let me hear from you if you are interested. I will pursue invited talks separately. Bob McGwier ARS N4hy___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_wxapt_rcv.py

2009-03-26 Thread Bob McGwier
I am the author. The bandwidth of the signal transmitted from the APT satellites (NOAA) is 30 kHz but this does not allow for doppler. The basic RX is almost wholly inappropriate for NOAA APT and for anything band pass sampling application without appropriate filtering. Operating a 60-ism

[Discuss-gnuradio] Earth Venus Earth communications at

2009-03-28 Thread Bob McGwier
ne can see the SDR-IQ and Spectrum Lab. Congrats to RFSPACE (http://rfspace.com/Home.html) and Wolfgang DL4YHF (http://freenet-homepage.de/dl4yhf/spectra1.html). I hope everyone joins in congratulating this team on their multiple year effort and outstanding achievement. Bob McGwier

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] using gnuradio for GPS

2009-04-14 Thread Bob McGwier
The person has not been maintainingthe web site for a while. It had been hacked and hacked. Its wiki was so hacked that it was unusable. Every now and again, I would go and set the wiki pages back to the date before the hacking occurred but the hackers would just come and wipe it out again.

[Discuss-gnuradio] GPS SDR

2009-04-14 Thread Bob McGwier
It appears Heckler has repaired his site and in fact the git repository has seen activity since the beginning of the year. It is good that the hacked wiki, etc. has been recovered. This would be a PERFECT candidate to go into cgran (open source, not assigned to FSF). HINT Bob -- (Co)Auth

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MIMO and USRP

2009-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
. Matt sells hardware. Users write the code. If you cannot do that and you simply want a code monkey to do your work, I suggest you contact Jonathan Coulton or hire a contractor or work on it yourself QUIETLY. Bob McGwier john boon wrote: hi all, i haven't had any reply till n

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Is Now Available

2009-05-29 Thread Bob McGwier
Congratulations Matt! Matt Ettus wrote: John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Are there any significant hardware differences between the beta and production units? If so, can the betas be reworked to production status? Most of the small list of changes were in layout and are not user visible. T

[Discuss-gnuradio] Frank and Sandy

2009-06-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Frank Brickle (AB2KT) is married to a well known psychologist, Sandra Leiblum. If you do not follow Frank's facebook, linked in, etc. social networking you may not know some news. They were vacationing recently and Sandy suffered a horrific biking accident. She has had serious surgery but i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Mulitply PN sequence to real and convert output to complex - Question

2009-06-15 Thread Bob McGwier
Sir: Welcome to GnuRadio and happy to have a newcomer. Let me spend some time on netiquette here. Asking the same question, many times in many different ways is a sure fired way to get LESS help and for it to be delayed by an irritation factor. To convert a complex signal to real, it depe

[Discuss-gnuradio] CQ WW contest has a new category, XTREME

2009-06-19 Thread Bob McGwier
his class but please contact me OFF LIST, direct email. Here is the official announcement. Please, take this and send it everywhere you can think of where we might gather some interest. Bob McGwier N4HY -- This year at Dayton, the new CQWW Xtreme categori

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Audio Sample rate problem

2009-07-08 Thread Bob McGwier
In gnuradio-examples/python/audio there is a completely worked out example block to do EXACTLY what was requested, go to and from 32000 and 48000. It is good practice to look in the examples directory because with very high probability, the developers who check stuff in have faced the kinds o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why not use matched filter in GMSK demodulator

2009-08-01 Thread Bob McGwier
This is NOT optimal. CPM and FM detector is a noncoherent detection of MSK/GMSK. The near optimal receiver for MSK and GMSK does two things: 1) it does a coherent detection of the received symbols and 2) it does something like a trellis/viterbi decode for the correct phase path through the sy

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tracking a Carrier Frequency

2009-08-06 Thread Bob McGwier
The FFT divides the frequency range into bins. While you can do some computation based on the window function you use and how much power is in adjacent bins based on this knowledge and get a refined offset, from your proposal that sounds like it might be a step or two down the road for you ra

[Discuss-gnuradio] OT: WARNING! My trouble maker gene is firing

2009-10-27 Thread Bob McGwier
I am wondering if anyone in receipt of this note is friends with or knows the name of a good high level contact at the ACLU. I have a first amendment case I would like to discuss with them. Please contact me OFF LIST. Bob McGwier -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member

[Discuss-gnuradio] Linux Journal covers amateur radio

2009-12-11 Thread Bob McGwier
ARRL Website refers to Linux Journal: http://bit.ly/4Xce6q 73's Bob N4HY ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] git

2009-12-28 Thread Bob McGwier
The web site server serves git. We are all down. Andreas Fink wrote: can someone give me the exact command to check out gnuradio via git? as the website is down, I'm stuck. ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gn

[Discuss-gnuradio] Cygwin major upgrade

2010-01-03 Thread Bob McGwier
There is now available a major upgrade to cygwin, so much so that it issues a warning when you try and upgrade to read the documentation. One of the most significant changes seems to be the swapover to gcc4 and some other significant changes to libcygwin, cygserver, etc. I am not an expert, b

[Discuss-gnuradio] Jackd

2006-07-25 Thread Bob McGwier
With the latest jackd (svn) and a temporary file system (ram based) I have seen but one xrun in the last hour and that was while I was running thunderbird, vncviewer, and making a purchase at best buy with firefox.Otherwise, it is glitch free audio running my FM Stereo receiver from GnuRad

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using DSP for precise zero crossing, measurement?

2006-09-18 Thread Bob McGwier
John, Achilleas implies how to compute the "score" for the parameters A1, A2, t1, and t2 and that the problem is to minimize the distance between r and s, but he does not say how to reestimate or compute the best set of parameters. That is all the meat to the problem (the minimization o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using DSP for precise zero crossing, measurement?

2006-09-19 Thread Bob McGwier
Lee: The marginal distributions for the parameters never contain as much information as the joint probability distributions except those conditions where the underlying problem is truly separable. It is almost always better from an information theoretic and probabilistic point of view to use

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AGC loop

2006-09-19 Thread Bob McGwier
Tom: A good agc has at least two time constants. One for attack and one for decay. Your attack is much too slow. tmp = (reference - sqrt(real(y)^2 + imag(y)^2)); rate = rate1; if tmp > gainrate = rate2; gain += tmp*rate; rate2 is decay (where gain needs to be increased) and rate1 is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AGC loop

2006-09-21 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:36:55PM -0400, Robert W McGwier wrote: Tom: A good agc has at least two time constants. One for attack and one for decay. Your attack is much too slow. tmp = (reference - sqrt(real(y)^2 + imag(y)^2)); rate = rate1; if tmp > gainrate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFTW Problems

2006-09-22 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:51:31PM -0500, Ron Shaffer wrote: I'm trying to build with the latest svn source as of this past weekend in FC 4. below is a snip of my configure and make outputs ... Can someone help me with this please - I'm getting unresolved externals on F

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFTW Problems

2006-09-22 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:51:31PM -0500, Ron Shaffer wrote: I'm trying to build with the latest svn source as of this past weekend in FC 4. below is a snip of my configure and make outputs ... Can someone help me with this please - I'm getting unresolved externals on F

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] AGC loop and digital mods

2006-09-27 Thread Bob McGwier
The feedforward AGC system in DttSP is more complex in that it is two track (fast and "user set"). I believe I already mentioned this so I won't go over it again. But let me reiterate one important feature of our work. One of the things that was important to its success as a feedforward ag

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gnuradio trellis

2006-09-28 Thread Bob McGwier
Achilleas: You and I essentially agree. I personally believe that maximum likelihood sequence estimation is suboptimal in comparison to a more completely Bayesian approaching built upon computationally feasible implementations of the EM algorithm. Since we can and should take a non-causal ap

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gnuradio trellis

2006-09-28 Thread Bob McGwier
Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote: Bob, Let's make sure we are talking about the same thing before we declare that we agree: Problem 1: KNOWN CHANNEL. In this case everything is quite straightforward, and all related problems have been solved 20 years ago. A) The receiver that minimizes SEQUENCE

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Software GPS receivers.

2006-10-30 Thread Bob McGwier
Trond Danielsen wrote: Hi everyone! This is my first post to this list, so please correct me if I do something wrong. I have been watching the GnuRadio project for a while, and I must say that it is an impressive piece of work. I am currently doing a pre-study for my master thesis on building s

[Discuss-gnuradio] Congratulations to Tom Rondeau

2006-12-22 Thread Bob McGwier
I wish to pass along my congratulations to a GnuRadio contributor. Tom Rondeau of Virginia Tech, a graduate student just about to do his doctoral thesis defense, has written a paper with Jeffrey Reed, Bin Le, and Bostian on A/D converter technlogies: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build errors

2007-01-16 Thread Bob McGwier
Those machines I described, all running Ubuntu 6.1 32bit, exhibit the problem. This is 3 independent machines. I svn fresh copies of the source and did ./bootstrap;./configure --enable-doxygen;make and the make fails on all three machines. HP laptop, Mini-ITX P4-HT, and old dual Athlo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

2007-01-16 Thread Bob McGwier
I understand the need and/or desire to do this natively but we really want to be doing cross platform for this target. 256 MB is not enough for these large compiles. DO NOT get on Terra's Yellow Dog pre-installed PS3 list if you have not already done so. They have taken the $100 with no g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

2007-01-22 Thread Bob McGwier
Mine arrives on Wednesday unless I am mistaken. Has anyone installed Fedora Core and the boot-game-os app and had it work? I know it does under YDL. I have both distro's in iso form. My wife forced me to buy Tiger Woods golf so she insists that gaming not be disabled. ;-). This is defini

[Discuss-gnuradio] qa_*.py

2007-02-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Without exception, on the ps3 under FC5-PPC, python qa_???.py generates a segment fault so make check fails of course in run_tests.sh.There is no other information provided at the segment fault. Bob -- Robert W. McGwier, Ph.D. Center for Communications Research 805 Bunn Drive Prince

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [dttsp-linux] Re: Feisty Fawn updates

2007-04-23 Thread Bob McGwier
I have run into my first Feisty Fawn Ubuntu update issue. usbview works perfectly and reveals the USRP 2 as connected to my computer. But running my favorite application that wishes to talk to the USRP seems to have changed behavior with python 2.5. It claims it cannot find "USRP #0". Has a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [dttsp-linux] Re: Feisty Fawn updates

2007-04-23 Thread Bob McGwier
I will profess complete ignorance. What udev rule? ;-). Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:15:40AM -0400, Robert W McGwier wrote: I have run into my first Feisty Fawn Ubuntu update issue. usbview works perfectly and reveals the USRP 2 as connected to my computer. But

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-qtgui configuring?

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric Blossom wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:25:38PM -0400, Michael Dickens wrote: My bad ... RTF Readme file that goes along with gr-qtgui! Requires qwt >= 5.0.0 ! Ububtu Edgy can install QWT 4.2, but no greater ... doh! Can we check for this in the m4 file somehow (the QT version is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] End-to-end delay question

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Steve: I want to make sure you have a very late wxgtk installed. Versions earlier than very recent indeed have a really ugly memory leak. Eventually this memory leak really puts the hurt on the entire system. I am pretty sure this is your problem. Bob Steve Bunch wrote: I was liste

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 and gnuradio

2007-07-11 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric might still be on vacation in South America or Europe! Eric is running triple boot, FC5, FC6, and YDL. I run FC6 and GnuRadio compiles just fine but does not run. I have asked here if there is ANYONE who has GnuRadio compiling and running on ANY kind of power PC running FC6 and receive

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Regarding OFDM implementation

2007-07-16 Thread Bob McGwier
The LTS at U. Md. has implemented (in GnuRadio) general QAM constellation mapping for modulate and demodulate.This was done by interns working for Charles Clancy. I will work with them to add the slicer and then check that stuff in but it might be the first of September before I can do thi

PS3 audio solution (wasRe: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 and gnuradio)

2007-07-16 Thread Bob McGwier
High Performance SDR ( http://hpsdr.org ) has been working on a high end audio interface for SDR (up to 192 kHz bandwidth at baseband, I/Q delivery over USB 2.0). It has a PWM modulator, and even a microphone hookup and codec for microphone and speakers. The set of boards required is Atlas

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] License updated to GPL version 3 or later

2007-07-23 Thread Bob McGwier
I have noticed that the code seems lighter and the electrons seems happier this morning! Welcome back from vacation. Bob Eric Blossom wrote: FYI, I've just updated the license on GNU Radio from GPL version 2 or later to GPL version 3 or later. -- snip -- Eric -- Robert W. McGwi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Exploring Gnu Radio

2007-08-17 Thread Bob McGwier
The png's in the docs/exploring gnu radio directory are corrupted. I cannot read them with gimp or any other other tool. File run on them says they are PNG corrupted files. I loaded the eps files, they appear to be okay but any png I tried to generate from them in a few seconds of trying,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SWIG/C++ Template Expansion Info

2007-08-30 Thread Bob McGwier
Johnathan Corgan wrote: Michael Dickens wrote: I'll post the code for demo_sig_source instead once it compiles and works, most likely later today (for me, now, since I'm up way too late). < http://www.nd.edu/~mdickens/GNURadio/demo_sig_source/ > This is clearly a better approa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cell in a laptop...

2008-01-11 Thread Bob McGwier
It is EXTREMELY difficult to see how the fine grained control of transactional memory that is available with the full cell will be available with this "spe's hung on a Core 2". The first article even got it wrong, calling this a core 2 quad (from the remarks that followed right after calling i

[Discuss-gnuradio] Recommended Book

2008-01-14 Thread Bob McGwier
I would like to recommend this SDR book. It is technical and mathematical but well done by an acquaintance of mine at the Univ. of Utah. http://www.ece.utah.edu/~farhang/ You may follow his link to lulu and for $13.00, download a pdf version of his book. He is an extremely bright professor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnu Radio Companion (GRC) 0.69 experience

2008-01-17 Thread Bob McGwier
Frank Brickle used GRC for our SDR class design lab. It was a success. I cannot comment on the crash. Bob Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote: I would like to thank again Josh for the wonderfull job on GRC: I am now using it regularly for my classroom demonstrations on analog/digital communic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need info for paper.

2008-01-18 Thread Bob McGwier
I have two of the Lyrtech boards and with the develpment tools for DSP chip and FPGA. Using Matlab simulink, and code generation, etc. for rapid prototyping this is just about ohh, one hundred grand.. The Matlab is shared license at work as is the DSP and FPGA development tools but this is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fedora 8 on PS3

2008-01-29 Thread Bob McGwier
expat from FC7 is used by the SDK 3.0 install. The magic kboot command IS the secret sauce. There is a nash update but I have not exercised it. After you get the text install done, if anyone is goofy enough to try and gnome in the thimble full of memory left ;-), they can change inittab.

[Discuss-gnuradio] AMSAT programming help needed

2008-02-05 Thread Bob McGwier
AMSAT (the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) is working with its partners on a Cubesat (4 inch cube satellite) to be launched in the next few months. We need experienced help programming an MPS-430 (TI Microcontroller). If you are a U.S. citizen (sorry, ITAR and out of my hands) and are i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Planning for the future

2008-02-13 Thread Bob McGwier
Or have them all be LWP administered by something design with concurrency in mind. ;-). Bob Eric Blossom wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:37:16PM -0500, Philip Balister wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 11:15 AM, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I expect to start on the "thread-per-b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulating APCO P25 signals

2008-02-19 Thread Bob McGwier
Tom Rondeau wrote: stevie.glass wrote: Your oscope signal of the baseband looks like good, clean QPSK, though, so you're on the right track. The table you've posted is definitely pi/4 DQPSK. What this does is shift the constellation by 45 degrees every symbol, which means that what used to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Qt and QWT

2008-02-24 Thread Bob McGwier
Patrick Strasser wrote: Hello! I've seen some messages reagrding Qt and GNU Radio, and some code in the repository. I'd like to use Qt and QWT. QWT simply looks great and very useful, and I hope to get better performance with Qt compared to Wx. AFICS the graphical sinks need some way to get

[Discuss-gnuradio] AB2KT and the opera

2008-03-06 Thread Bob McGwier
On Saturday evening, Frank Brickle (AB2KT), will have his opera performed by the Cygnus ensemble in the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in NYC. For those nearby, there are tickets available, but they are going fast. http://cygnusensemble.com/cms/2007-2008-season/index.php 73's Bob N4HY -- AMSA

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: AB2KT and the opera

2008-03-10 Thread Bob McGwier
f ceremonies for the program even delivered my characterization of Frank as a polymath (with my full support) in the program. I was pleasantly surprised to say the least. Shann and I really enjoyed the entire experience immensely. Congratulations Frank! Bob/Shann N4HY/N2HPE Bob McGwier wrote:

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [hpsdr] AB2KT and the opera

2008-03-11 Thread Bob McGwier
Frank Brickle wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Bob McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Well I apologize for sending that note out inviting everyone to come to a sold out performance. I hope no one was inconvenienced... For th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] new 802.11b receiver

2008-03-25 Thread Bob McGwier
bandwidth. I am looking forward to visit your department at some time in the next few months. I hope to be able to meet you. Thank your for doing this work! Bob McGwier Mohammad Hamed Firooz wrote: Quoting George Nychis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Brian Padalino wrote: On Mon, Mar 24

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Updates

2008-03-31 Thread Bob McGwier
I wonder if you are told several more times that it is already released in an svn branch if you will finally look to see how to get it? http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/trondeau/ofdm That took me less than 2 minutes to find. It will take you less than two minutes

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