Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Suggestions for newbies?

[Robert Roberts]

Hello,


I'm currently writing a set of laboratory exercises utilizing 
MATLAB/Simulink and GNURadio/USRP that will introduce various 
communications and digital signal processing concepts. I hope to 
release them once I am finished so they should provide a walk through 
of the system for newbies.


Cheers,
~Chris Roberts~
MS Systems & Control Engr
Case Western Reserve University

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Blossom <address@hidden>
Date: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:30 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Suggestions for newbies?
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:40:39PM -0500, James Longstreet wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I recently started reading about Gnu Radio, and I think it would 
> make  
> > a great project for my university's ACM chapter.  My EE/radio  
> > experience is pretty much limited to RadioShack kits and 
> building a  
> > shortwave receiver, but I have lots of programming experience.  
> I'm  
> > confident that I can wrap my head around the concepts at least 
> enough  
> > to make things work.
> 
> Good.  I don't think you'll find it overly challenging.
> 
> > From everything I've read, it seems that the USRP is the way to 
> go  
> > for hardware - relatively inexpensive, designed to work with Gnu 
> 
> > Radio, and general enough to allow for just about anything.  
> What can  
> > I hope to accomplish with a USRP - AM/FM radio? TV? HDTV?
> 
> If you get a USRP with the "TV Rx" daughterboard, FM will work out of
> the box.
> 
> > Also, what kind of timeframe would be reasonable for playing 
> around  
> > with this?  Should I expect to be able to receive FM radio the 
> day I  
> > take my USRP out of the box,
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > or will I have to fiddle with things for a few weeks/months?  I
> > don't mind spending time with it, but I'd like to know what I'm
> > getting myself into before I spend $700 on it.
> 
> > What reading should I do to get up to speed on concepts I'm 
> going to  
> > be running into?  I understand radio at a conceptual level, but 
> DSP  
> > and things like that are foreign to me.
> 
> Check out http://comsec.com/wiki?SuggestedReading for pointers to 
good
> info.  If you're interested in getting up to speed on DSP, Richard
> Lyons' book is a good place to start.
> 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > James Longstreet
> > System Administrator
> > Association for Computing Machinery
> > University of Illinois at Chicago
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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