Doubt about the functionality of Blade RF for purchase: Active center frequency positioning.

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Tangoz
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Doubt about the functionality of Blade RF for purchase: Active center frequency positioning.

Post by Tangoz »

Hello.
I am thinking of buying a bladeRF, as it meets my specifications needed for the application I am looking for.
However, I have a small doubt, which is very important to me.
Is it possible to perform a frequency sweep using GNU Radio commands(to do it automatically by software every 1 second)?
The idea is not to demodulate coherently, but simply to make a 50 Mhz step sweep to be for example 1 second averaging the fft, and then move to the next center frequency.
That way then reassembling the signal I will get a frequency analyzer.

Thank you very much in advance, best regards.
robert.ghilduta
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Re: Doubt about the functionality of Blade RF for purchase: Active center frequency positioning.

Post by robert.ghilduta »

As far as I know it is not possible to programmatically control the center frequency variable to make it change the center frequency in GNURadio. This functionality however is easily achievable by using libbladeRF directly. The frequency tuning functions can be used, https://nuand.com/libbladeRF-doc/v2.5.0 ... i_n_g.html and even schedule at specific times using scheduled tuning functions ( https://nuand.com/libbladeRF-doc/v2.5.0 ... i_n_g.html ).
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