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[Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!
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Marcus D. Leech |
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap! |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:50:48 -0500 |
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Spent some time yesterday evening building up a stereo FM receiver in
GRC. I know there are already a few of these for broadcast FM,
but for personal education reasons, I thought I'd build something up.
Attached is my result.
It seems to work reasonably well (better than the existing example WFM
stereo receiver on the same signals).
But something I've discovered is that about 30% of the program material
coming out of my fave radio station doesn't even have
any L-R signal present. I mean, I can understand during
announcements, commercials, etc. But a lot of the musical material
doesn't have any L-R, even modern material.
But I never really knew the gory details of FM Multiplex before--didn't
know the L-R channel was DSB-SC, for example. Never had cause
to think deeply about it. I knew there was a 19kHz pilot tone, and
that it was doubled to 38kHz (usually with a PLL), but I always thought
it was used as a switching signal of some sort.
If I get keen, I'll extend this to include RDS decoding.
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org
simple_fm_rcv.grc
Description: application/gnuradio-grc
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!, Tim Pozar, 2012/02/19