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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of s


From: Matt Ettus
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] improper WBX transmission of tone in center of spectrum
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:55:57 -0700
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The WBX can put out about 20dBm at 520 MHz. -55dBm would be 75dB below the desired signal, which is quite a good amount of LO suppression. If you need more, you'll need to actively calibrate the DC offset to null it out.

Matt


On 08/03/2010 12:55 PM, George Nychis wrote:
The power of the tone comes in to the spectrum analyzer at -55.6dBm


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Matt Ettus <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:



    You are seeing uncompensated DC offset.  What is the actual power of
    the tone?

    Matt


    On 08/03/2010 10:12 AM, George Nychis wrote:

        I have a WBX, and I've noticed that no matter what I transmit,
        the WBX
        always introduces a very narrow (but full-power) tone at the
        center of
        my spectrum.  When the transmitter is disabled, the tone is not
        present.

        This can be seen below, where I'm transmitting a stream of
        complex(0,0),
        yet it still transmits this tone in at the center (520MHz):
        spectrum.jpg

        Has anyone experienced this before with the WBX board?  I've
        confirmed
        it's only my WBX board by using the same USRP2 board and trying my
        RFX2400 and XCVR2450 with the same transmit script and sample
        stream and
        neither see this problem.

        I am using the latest USRP2 firmware that includes the WBX
        support, and
        the newest GR git.  It's possible that the board is defective in
        some
        way... but I thought I'd punt it to the list to see if anyone
        else has
        seen the issue.

        - George



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