Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with audio extraction in NTSC

2005-02-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Blossom wrote: Qt is *not* free for either OS/X or Windows. As far as I know there is not a well developed set of bindings for use from Python. It was reported recently that the upcoming version of QT will be dual licensed (GPL/proprietary) under Windows as it is for Linux, so that problem w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF Analysis

2005-05-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I suspect the original poster was looking for something a little more sophisticated, but since Richard mentioned using a c program an visa, I'll mention the linux-gpib project which provides drivers and a more-or-less NI compatible library to talk to GPIB cards from several vendors. I've writt

[Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-24 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Well, it didn't take long for me to think of a use for the USRP I acquired from Matt at the Dayton Hamvention. About six months from now, there will be a ham radio frequency measuring test where the challenge will be to measure, as accurately as possible, the frequency of a signal broadcast in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-24 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Larry Doolittle wrote: [ snip ] In principle, you could dedicate a second channel to recording the GPS band, and extract near perfect frequency calibration from that. Unfortunately for your time-frame, GPS reception in itself is a serious project that has not been fully solved by the GNU Radio c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Bob -- Yup, using a 64MHz Reflock II is exactly what I was planning to do. It'll be driven by one of the house Cs or Rb standards that's compared against GPS. One of my questions -- whether a frequency-stabilized 64MHz clock would remove all sources of frequency error, or whether there wa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm confused by the need to insert a reference signal and resample from that. I was thinking of just programming the four DACs (through two Basic RX boards) to each look at a, say, 10kHz wide chunk of spectrum around the nominal frequency, and then do a deep FFT of each of those streams. I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Larry Doolittle wrote: I think the FFT-based analysis is less than ideal. You really want to track the phase, count cycles, and measure the phase difference over a defined time. delta(phase)/delta(time) is the average frequency. Your phase error could be as small as a few milliradians, and you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An interesting application for my new USRP... some input requested

2005-05-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
n4hy wrote: HF sucks. It is full of very large signals that will typically hurt this kind of system (12 bit front end). You have to scale to handle the largest signal and the weaker ones go off the bottom, even after processing gain through the DDC. If you build filters and preamplifiers,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Debian packages

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm trying to install via debian packages. I've added the gnuradio repository to my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and have been able to install several of the packages. However, I'm getting a dependency problem. python-wxgui seems to require libwxgtk2.5.3-python, but that isn't available for insta

[Discuss-gnuradio] CVS build problem

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
While stalled on the Debian install (see my other message), I decided to bite the bullet and do a CVS download and build. I'm having some problems on this Debian unstable system. When I do "./for-all-dirs ../buildit" I get a bunch of macro-related errors early on, and the bujild crashes due to "

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CVS build problem

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Blossom wrote: >On to your problem... > >Are the versions of automake, autoconf and libtool that you have >installed at least at the versions that are called for in the README? > >Are you able to build any other programs that uses the autotools? > >Eric > > Automake is probably the culprit

[Discuss-gnuradio] Build problems resolved, now trying to run programs...

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks to Eric's tips, and Ramakrishnan's pointer to the wxpython debs, I have a successful build and my laptop seems to be talking to the USRP. I'm now running into what I hope is a simple error: any attempt to run the examples in the gnuradio-examples/usrp directory results in: flob:/home/jra/g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Build problems resolved, now trying to run programs...

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Got the problem below resolved by removing the old wxpython stuff (the new version from Ramakrishnan has a different package name, and doesn't remove the old version). Now doing a complete rebuild in the hope that all the underlying bits are in place... John ---- John Ackermann N8UR

[Discuss-gnuradio] Success!

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm now listening to some awful music from an awful local station -- but a strong one -- through the USRP Basic RX port. So, things are working! Just one problem -- when I try to use the TVRx board, I get an error that apparently springs from tvrx.h and a failure to define global name "u". The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Success!

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Still the same problem, Matt. John Matt Ettus wrote: >Do a CVS update and reinstall in gr-usrp > >Matt > >John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > > >>I'm now listening to some awful music from an awful local station -- but >>a strong one -- through the USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Success!

2005-05-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
firm the same problem after just updating via CVS. >> >>On Mon, 30 May 2005, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Still the same problem, Matt. >>> >>>John >>> >>> > > >_

[Discuss-gnuradio] Stupid Soundcard Sample Tricks

2005-06-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- After successfully getting gnuradio and the USRP to run on my laptop (Thinkpad R40), I decided it was time to install it on my main hamshack computer. Using the lessons I learned the first time, the code built just fine and I can talk to the USRP. However, I'm having trouble getting audio

[Discuss-gnuradio] tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui.py problem -- "module profile not found"

2005-06-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Subject line says it all -- it appears the waterfall sink is calling a profile module that's not there. Any suggestions how to resolve this? Thanks, John ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui.py problem -- "module profile not found"

2005-06-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
r testing out the code. If you look down in the > code, the place where it was being used is already commented out, I > presume they just forgot to do likewise to the import. > > -jamie > > > > > John Ackermann N8UR wrote:gr-wxgui/src/python$ l > > > >> Subj

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui.py problem -- "module profile not found"

2005-06-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Blossom wrote: FYI, I updated waterfallsink.py to remove the "import profile" line. Eric Thanks! With that and the plughw trick to solve my sample rate problem, I should be set to go. John ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnur

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with CVS

2005-06-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I think there may be a problem with the upload Eric did earlier. After doing a CVS update and for-all-dirs make clean and make install, I'm getting this set of errors in gr-audio-alsa: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jra/gnuradio/gr-build/gr-audio-alsa' /usr/bin/swig -c++ -c++ -python -I/usr/in

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning <50kHz steps with TVRX?

2005-06-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I made some real progress today and have both WFM and NBFM working on my primary computer. In looking at the tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui program, there's a note that the smallest tuning step is 50kHz; I presume this is a limitation of the tuner module. I'm sure there must be a way to get smaller tuning ste

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP at Ham Field Day

2005-06-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I took my USRP out to my radio club's Field Day site this weekend (an annual ham radio event where we set up and operate under emergency conditions from portable locations) and decided to play around. I loaded Chuck's hfexplorer_9a program and hooked the BasicRX port to a 40/20 meter dipole antenn

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: USRP at Ham Field Day

2005-06-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > The experience has made me curious to see just what the sensitivity of > the system is with no filtering or preamp, so I'll hook a signal > generator up to see what it can hear in the lab. But from the field > experience, I'm guessing that it

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: USRP at Ham Field Day

2005-06-26 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Good job on the hfexplorer software, Chuck! Just a couple of > suggestions: (a) trying to tune in broadcast stations on AM resulted in > horrible distortion -- sounds like extreme overload and clipping; I just tried putting an AM signal into the USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bandswitch and rf gain added to HF Explorer

2005-06-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks, Chuck -- sounds like useful new features. I will download and play. I meant to mention earlier in reference to the filter and the tradeoff between skirts and CPU usage -- have you looked at the filtering scheme used in the Flex-Radio SDR-1000 software? I don't recall the exact details ri

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP I and Q channels

2005-07-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Before I go off to lay out some HF front-end boards for the USRP, can someone verify whether the I and Q inputs can be treated independently (for decimation, DDC, etc.) or whether they are slaved together. My plan is to make a simple board that has two front-ends (just bandpass filters and pre

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio and GCC 4?

2005-07-09 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I just updated from CVS and am doing buildit across the system. I'm getting lots of reports about "unknown compiler version" from gcc.hpp. So far it's just been warnings and the build process continues without error, but it's not finished yet... A check shows that Debian unstable is now using gc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio and GCC 4?

2005-07-09 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Followup... the gcc 4 build did fail, with a segfault in one of the first tests it ran. I changed over to gcc-3.3 and g++-3.3 and it completed successfully. John John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >I just updated from CVS and am doing buildit across the system. I'm >getting lots of re

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Daughterboard Mechanical Outline?

2005-08-17 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
David Bengtson wrote: Matt: Is there a PDF somewhere of the board outline for the USRP daughterboards? I need to generate a board outline in Eagle, and I'd like to get the relative location of the board to board connector and the standoff holes. I'm planning to do a daughterboard design in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] external clock

2005-08-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Bdale Garbee wrote: >Looking at options for locking all the clocks that are part of the EME >station I'm building to my HP 58503A GPS-synced clock. Searching the >list archives, I found this note from Matt regarding the external clock >input on the USRP: > >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] external clock

2005-08-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Bdale Garbee wrote: >Aye, that's the rub. Bob's point about phase noise in the on-chip PLL >being a potential source of problem is a good one. Without digging in >to that, it suggests to me that this might be a better approach and thus >a suitable choice of VCXO is the problem we really need to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cypress/USRP/USB query (quick one!)

2005-08-30 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Kalen Watermeyer wrote: Has anybody had any experience with using the FX2 under Windows? More specifically, has anybody used the Cypress drivers for Windows? It may well be that my hardware is faulty, but I am unsure how 'automatic' the initialising process is with regards the FX2 so am at a d

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Windows Version

2005-08-31 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Blossom wrote: [There are lots of Debian users out there using GNU Radio, but based on the list traffic, I would say that it requires a greater level of sysadmin experience than that required for Mandriva.] As much as I love Debian, I have to say Eric is correct on this. There's nothin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DCC this Week!

2005-09-19 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Stuart Brorson wrote: The 24th Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference September 23-25, 2005 Santa Ana, California http://www.tapr.org/dcc [. . . .] Introductory Sessions -- - Intro to Eagle CAD by Dan Welch, W6DFW Eagle is nice, but unless you

[Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

2006-01-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I rebuilt my laptop with Kubuntu and am now trying to get GnuRadio built (I succeeded with it before when I was running Debian). I think I have most of the dependencies met, but I am being bit by a version problem with the make tools; I had the same issue when I built under Debian; once I foun

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

2006-01-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Michael Dickens wrote: On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:33 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: In the meantime, anyone know what version of automake (and other make tools) is required? Last time I checked, automake version 1.8.6 or newer was required for "USRP", and an older version for the ot

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

2006-01-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jonathan Jacky wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I looked on the wiki but couldn't find anything that listed the version dependencies. That would be a useful thing to add if/when someone has a chance. It's in gnuradio-core/README: autoconf 2.57

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

2006-01-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Eric Blossom said the following on 01/06/2006 07:26 PM: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:33:33AM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >>I looked on the wiki but couldn't find anything that listed the version >>dependencies. That would be a useful thing to add if/when som

[Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault in tests

2006-01-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Just did a "./for-all-dirs ../buildit" and got this error in the gnuradio-core "make check-TESTS" stage: " >>> gr_fir_fff: using SSE ../run_tests: line 15: 25247 Segmentation fault $file " After searching the archive, it seems that stack size may cause some problems. My ulimit -s i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio build dependencies

2006-01-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Larry Doolittle said the following on 01/06/2006 10:23 PM: > John et al. - > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > >>BTW -- one of the challenges with Debian is that the automake version >>that's installed by default is 1.4. I do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault in tests

2006-01-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan said the following on 01/07/2006 04:44 AM: > On 1/7/06, John Ackermann N8UR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>After searching the archive, it seems that stack size may cause some >>problems. My ulimit -s is 8192. I don't know if that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segfault in tests

2006-01-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR said the following on 01/07/2006 08:59 AM: > > > Thanks for the feedback, Ramakrishnan. I'm not sure what's going on. > Bsaed on another tip, I'm building cppunit from scratch to see if that > makes a difference. That and a fresh Gnur

[Discuss-gnuradio] Still struggling... now with Debian packages

2006-01-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I've temporarily given up on building from source on my Kubuntu system. I downloaded Ramakrishnan's .deb packages and forced them to install (dependency issues around library versions, which I *think* are not critical). But things don't work... here's the output from a simple run with python, as

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Still struggling... now with Debian packages

2006-01-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR said the following on 01/11/2006 04:40 PM: > But things don't work... here's the output from a simple run with > python, as suggested by the README: [ snip ] It apparently was contamination between stuff installed in /usr/local and the files installed by the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Still struggling... now with Debian packages

2006-01-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR said the following on 01/11/2006 05:34 PM: > Now the basic stuff is working. I'm getting an error in the usrp > examples where "from gnuradio import usrp" thinks the usrp module > doesn't exist, but that should be solvable. Sorry to pollute the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Still struggling... now with Debian packages

2006-01-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
marcel maatkamp wrote: Should you fail, give me an email. I have an almost perfect install-script for ubuntu which builds from source, which I can mail friday-evening. I will add it to the wiki if I have some time this weekend. Regardless of whether I get the debian install working, I ultimat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Still struggling... now with Debian packages

2006-01-13 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
marcel maatkamp said the following on 01/12/2006 04:17 AM: > Should you fail, give me an email. I have an almost perfect install-script > for ubuntu which builds from source, which I can mail friday-evening. > > I will add it to the wiki if I have some time this weekend. Hi Marcel -- I'm still

[Discuss-gnuradio] Update on Ubuntu Installation

2006-01-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Well, *after* the presentation today, I was able to make some progress with building from CVS under Ubuntu. (Actually, despite having no demo, the presentation went very well today -- a crowd of about 50 and there was significantly more interest than when I've spoken about SDR to this group in pas

[Discuss-gnuradio] Powermate not found?

2006-01-22 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi -- I'm running a CVS snapshot that's about a week old on my Debian system, and for some reason the Powermate knob isn't being detected. I am using kernel 2.6.15 and lsmod shows the powermate module installed, and the little blue LED is glowing happily. Yet apps report: "FYI: No Powermate or C

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Powermate not found?

2006-01-22 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm running a CVS snapshot that's about a week old on my Debian system, > and for some reason the Powermate knob isn't being detected. I am using > kernel 2.6.15 and lsmod shows the powermate module installed, and the > l

[Discuss-gnuradio] Big GRC flowgraphs

2016-06-09 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm working on a flowgraph that has a lot of blocks (sets of identical blocks for 16+ channels). What's the best way to manage this on-screen in GRC? Can GRC handle multiple sheets, or is there a way to group a bunch of blocks into a "superblock" that shows in the flowgraph as a single block?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
#x27;t allow that choice. John On 05/23/2017 02:51 PM, Kevin Reid wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:31 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I'm continuing to work on a multi-channel NBFM receiver using the polyphase filter. I have the basic system workin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
se, using a higher sampling rate might make >the problem more manageable. If you'd share the first half of your flow >graph, we could discuss options for that! > >Best regards, > >Marcus > >[1] http://gnuradio.org/blog/buffers > > >On 23.05.2017 22:04, John Ack

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mixing multiple streams to audio

2017-05-24 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
at did you use as argument for firdes.lowpass()?) Best regards, Marcus On 05/24/2017 04:38 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Here's the whole flowgraph. Once I get the code functioning, I'm planning to clean this up, maybe add a few more channels, and make it easier to customize -- so

[Discuss-gnuradio] "LED" GUI widget?

2017-05-25 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'd like to have an indicator in the GUI (just a small circle is fine) light up when a Power Squelch block opens -- basically, an "in use" signal. Is there a Qt widget that can do that, and is there a way to probe the Power Squelch for its state? (I'd like to do this within GRC if possible.)

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer mapping

2017-06-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Is there a basic rule for how to assign channel numbers to the PFB channelizer output? I seem to be too dense to figure it out from the docs. I just want to pull the channels out in order of their RF frequency, low to high. I currently have a 7 channel channelizer which seems to work properl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer mapping

2017-06-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
is 0, the lowest channel is nchannels/2 + 1 or so... I think your mapping could have 4 on the end to get the whole sequence. On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:25 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: Is there a basic rule for how to assign channel numbers to the PFB channelizer

[Discuss-gnuradio] Bus ports problem -- issue from 2016?

2017-06-03 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I've started experimenting with the bus port capability, using 3.7.11.1. The QT GUI Frequency Sink creates a bus with one more port than the number required (possibly a hidden message port). This was reported as a bug last year, and still seems to be a problem. Is a fix for this on the horiz

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I don't have a view whether an audio synchronizer (is that the right term?) is appropriate for GSoC, but it's a problem that's biting me right now. I'm doing a multi-channel nbfm receiver with a polyphase channelizer that feeds a bunch of power squelch/nbfm demod blocks, with the audio streams

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Benny -- As I mentioned in another message, I'm struggling with the RF-audio interface now. Do you have any example code for your suggestion that I might play with (in my mind, the idea would be an "audio synchronizer" block that would take input at the nominal audio rate and output at the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
owever, you're asking about resampling: Well, resamplers do exist :) ! We've got a totally different problem, though: To resample properly, you'd need to know (or better: estimate) the clock error. On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:47 AM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote:

[Discuss-gnuradio] OP25

2017-06-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I spent some time fiddling with the OP25 P25 trunking scanner software, and with a lot of help from the guys on the op25-dev mailing list got it working pretty well. The "how to get it to do something useful" part isn't too well documented, so I thought I would document the config steps and fi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Error building gr-osmocom in recent pull

2017-06-16 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I just did "build-gnuradio" on a new machine and am getting a failure in the rtl_build function that wasn't present previously. In rtl_source_c.cc, line 224, the build fails with: error: 'rtlsdr_set_bias_tee' was not declared in this scope ret = rtlsdr_set_bias_tee(_dev, bias_tee); Any sugg

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
For at least the last couple of days, the build-gnuradio script has been failing almost immediately after it starts fetching, claiming that it "could not find gnuradio/gnuradio-[core,runtime] after GIT checkout." I changed the URL in the script from git.gnuradio.org to github.org and that work

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Should have done this first, but I went to git.gnuradio.org with my browser and got a "bad certificate" error. The cert is valid for a number of gnuradio.org sites, but not git.gnuradio.org. John On 06/23/2017 05:29 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: For at least the last coup

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with Gnuradio git?

2017-06-27 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
. Leech wrote: That change has been made to the build-gnuradio git repo Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2017, at 5:29 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: For at least the last couple of days, the build-gnuradio script has been failing almost immediately after it starts fetching, claiming that it "

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOK modulation naming

2015-04-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Why not make the ratio 1:3 and then you could call it Morse PWM. :-) On 4/2/2015 2:16 PM, Michael Ossmann wrote: A friend recently showed me an OOK modulation that I had never seen before, and I'm wondering if anyone knows a name for this scheme. It is PWM where both the on periods and off peri

[Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio uhd build failure

2015-04-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm trying to put gnuradio on a fresh installation of Linux Mint 17.1, 64 bit. The build-gnuradio script was downloaded from SBRAC last night. I get throught the prerequisites and git fetch OK, but when the "Building UHD..." step begins, it immediately exits with "UHD build apparently failed.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio uhd build failure

2015-05-04 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
or SDR systems being demo'd at our Hamvention booth (the convention center is pretty much a Faraday cage). Tests suggest it's going to work really well. John > On May 4, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:18 AM, John Ackermann N

[Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I have a flowgraph that includes a couple of sliders and a frequency display below. On a fairly low-res screen (1280x1024), I'm seeing that the flowchart GUI is fitting itself to the size of the screen, but the individual components don't all fit without a vertical scroll bar. I'd like to el

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
id in which you can place the GUI elements, and specify how many rows and columns the individual elements span [1]? Best regards, Marcus [1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioCompanion#Example On 05/18/2015 07:40 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I have a flowgraph that inclu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT object sizing

2015-05-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
> This is on the developers radar, I know because I've had discussions about it > with them in the past. They need more Gui programming help however. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 18, 2015, at 11:16 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >> >> Hi Marcus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks much for this, Chris! I look forward to playing with it, but... When I load the flowgraph on my GRC 3.7.6.1 system, I get a "Missing Block" error for each of lpf_taps and pbf_taps, triggering errors in the xfft and channelizer blocks. I also had an error in the "Multiply Const" block

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
band_width / 2, noaa_chan_width, firdes.WIN_HAMMING, 6.76) On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Thanks much for this, Chris! I look forward to playing with it, but... When I load the flowgraph on my GRC 3.7.6.1 system, I get a "Missing Block" error for each of l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
n Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:18 PM, John Ackermann N8UR mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: Hi Chris -- Using the variables, I now have the program working in general. The channel mapping gave me some nightmares, though. I finally decided that you need two maps -- one for the channe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] isolate channels from wideband

2015-08-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks! On 08/02/2015 03:11 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote: That's because of the first LPF - I made it kind of tight. If you change it from noaa_band_width to oversampled_width, that droop goes away. On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:06 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: One more thing -- it appears tha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT plot unit

2015-08-03 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
It might be helpful to clarify that since this is a voltage ratio, it's 20log rather than the 10log used for power (e.g., doubling voltage is 6dB, doubling power is 3dB), so the scaling will look different than a typical spectrum analyzer. (It would be nice if the instrumentation blocks could

[Discuss-gnuradio] "D" errors after flowgraph runs for some time

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am playing with a slightly modified version of Chris Kuethe's channelizer example for NOAA radio stations (my version attached). I'm using 3.7.6.1. The program runs just fine for the first 20-30 minutes on my I7-4710HQ laptop. System monitor shows typically one core running at about 50% w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "D" errors after flowgraph runs for some time

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
cleaned things up. Revised .grc file attached. John On 08/08/2015 02:56 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I am playing with a slightly modified version of Chris Kuethe's channelizer example for NOAA radio stations (my version attached). I'm using 3.7.6.1. The program runs just fi

[Discuss-gnuradio] Channelizer demonstration

2015-08-08 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I've put a short video of my tweaked version of Chris' NOAA radio channelizer demo on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/mTUSVNdCxa4 The screen capture didn't get the drop-down box when I changed channels, but if you look at the upper-left corner you'll see the channel change every few seconds. I

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gradual loss of amplitude as flowgraph runs

2015-08-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Still working with the polyphase channelizer program. While everything "works", there is something very strange: the output amplitude slowly drops the longer the program runs. As near I can tell, this happens in or following the frequency translating FFT block. To test, I stripped the flowgr

[Discuss-gnuradio] QT Freqency Sink vs. Log Power FFT values

2017-08-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm doing a simple flowgraph to determine the peak value (dBFS) within an FFT. The Log Power FFT sends vectors to a Max block which outputs the result -- it seems to be working reasonably well. I also have a QT Frequency Sink as eye candy, and notice that its display is about 6dB different th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Freqency Sink vs. Log Power FFT values

2017-08-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
wrote: On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 1:57 PM, John Ackermann N8UR <mailto:j...@febo.com>> wrote: I also have a QT Frequency Sink as eye candy, and notice that its display is about 6dB different than the Log Power FFT output. I can think of a number of reasons why that could be, but my

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio and Solar Eclipse

2017-08-31 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
As part of the HamSci (http://hamsci.org) solar eclipse experiment I recorded a bunch of IQ data from HF radio during the eclipse, using Gnuradio (plus the gr-hpsdr and gr-digital_rf modules) for all signal processing. A Red Pitaya running at 2.5 Msamples/sec recorded the entire AM broadcast

[Discuss-gnuradio] Averaging in QT Waterfall

2017-09-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am working with a large and long (8 hour) data set. My goal is to show changes in propagation over time -- in particular, further analysis of my solar eclipse RF captures. I want to show the whole 8 hours on a the waterfall without scrolling, which means I need to write a line to the displa

[Discuss-gnuradio] "Frame Rate" in log_power_fft (and other blocks)

2017-09-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I am trying to figure out the "frame rate" as used in log_power_fft and "update period" used in the QT GUI sinks. I'm trying to generate one output from both QT waterfall and log_power_fft every 60 seconds. I've tried setting the "frame rate" in log_power_fft to both 60 and the reciprocal 0.0

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-osmocom make failing

2017-09-23 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
For what it's worth -- This isn't a brand-new problem. I reported it here and on the osmocom-sdr list[1] back in June. There were responses on the osmocom list, none that resolved the problem, and I never was able to fix it myself. I suspect it's related to the addition of the seemingly-inn

[Discuss-gnuradio] Change filter parameters in running flowgraph?

2017-11-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm getting ready to do a Gnuradio tutorial for a local group, and want to show the impact of decimation and filtering. I created a QT Gui Range parameter that sets the ID "decimation". In the low pass filter block I the decimation value is set to "decimation." That seems to work and I can s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Change filter parameters in running flowgraph?

2017-11-02 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
OK, bummer but thanks for the clarification. On 11/02/2017 01:58 PM, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: For the most part, decimation cannot be changed at runtime, due to the way the scheduler does static allocation and buffer management. On 2017-11-02 13:05, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm ge

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio clock coherence?

2017-11-14 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
What is the clock source for a Gnuradio "internal" source such as the Signal Source block? If there is no hardware device connected, is the block ultimately driven by the PC clock? Then, if there is a hardware source (SDR) as well as an internal source, does the hardware source provide the ma

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio clock coherence?

2017-11-15 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 11/14/2017 02:20 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: My real question is whether it's safe to assume that a flowgraph is entirely clocked by the samples from its hardware source, and consequently that processing within the flowgraph (e.g., oscillator and mixer for tuning) does not introduce potentia

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-11-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
0 0 0 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] through a length=117*8 IFFT, and push the result (after a vector-to- stream) through your channelizer. You should see single tones in all your channels. (The different amplitudes might help telling them apart). Do they end up in the center of your bins? Best re

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-11-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
And the resampler did the trick.  Carriers are now nicely aligned.  Thanks again! On Nov 29, 2017, 4:48 PM, at 4:48 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >Hi Marcus -- > >First, thanks for catching the typo in the channel map. There was no >plan to skip any channels; the goal is to get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rounding errors in PFB channelizer?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
On 11/30/2017 02:08 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: [ snip ] You can do that (obviously, it works!), but I'd recommend you just use a channelizer with N=125 instead of 117! Your channel map can be used to ignore the channels you don't need (which seem to be the 4 upper and lower "edge" ones),

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try to set a size of 16384 -- but will accept 16383. In some cases, I'd like to match FFT size to sample rate. For example, with a 100 sample/second rate, I'd like to use a 100 bin FFT to (hopefu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks! The mailing list seems to have been clogged up overnight, so after posting I did some experiments and found that an FFT of 100 bins to match 100 samples/second worked just fine and gives me exactly what I want -- nicely spaced results at 1 second intervals. On 12/01/2017 11:19 AM, Syl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
error does GNU Radio throw (that's the critical piece of info!).. There's no restriction of FFT sizes. Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:28 -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT size constraints?

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks, Sylvain! On 12/01/2017 11:19 AM, Sylvain Munaut wrote: By convention, FFT sizes seem to be powers of 2. And Gnu Radio Companion throws an error if you try to set a size of 16384 -- but will accept 16383. Probably related to the size of the buffers or something like that. Is using a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Capturing channel power at desired rate

2017-12-01 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
My current project is analyzing the strength of signals in each channel of the AM broadcast band from a recording made during the recent solar eclipse. The goal is to see if the eclipse caused propagation changes leading to additional stations "popping up" out of the noise. Thanks to help fro

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