Receiving Signals

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2011EE10487
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Receiving Signals

Post by 2011EE10487 »

Hey,
I've been working on BladeRF and I'm able to generate signals from it using gnuradio flowgraph (osmocom sink). But I'm not been able to receive signals using osmocom source. The osmocom_fft example was not working either. Can anyone help me with this. I just had a wild idea that would there be need of using external power (adapter) to receive signals properly.

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bpadalino
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Re: Receiving Signals

Post by bpadalino »

Can you be a little more specific on what is not happening?

Is you run with osmocom_fft, what do you see? Do you see anything? Are there errors on the console?

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2011EE10487
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Re: Receiving Signals

Post by 2011EE10487 »

No I didn't got any errors. The output I'm getting is in this video. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5ZnEve ... t0dGM/edit. I am trying to receive a sine signal transferred from my USRP. The other way i.e., transmitting it from BladeRf and receiving it from USRP works fine.
When I run osmocom_fft in XY mode the output is like this. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5ZnEve ... ZiTFU/edit.

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jynik
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Re: Receiving Signals

Post by jynik »

On the bladeRF receive side, could you try bringing that VGA1 gain down -- 33 dB is quite a lot. I too, have seen some instability when the gains are set way too high -- I believe this is currently being investigated. Try just a few dB, rather than 33.
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