On 10 September 2016 at 11:40, pen tester <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Hi,
Still playing around and I have a question about the value which
should go in the Polyphase Resampler on the tx side please. Any
advice on the AM rx too would be helpful :-)
Transmit
* Simply trying make the working PSK31 audio tx to tx over HackRF
instead using [1] and updates from Tim's response
* Screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/1dLjHxMAU.png
<http://pasteboard.co/1dLjHxMAU.png>
Receive
* Simply trying to make the working PSK31 audio rx work using a
RTLSDR instead based on [2]
* The first line is an attempt to take in the AM signal and just
pass it on to [2]
* For the AM rx, I used [3] as a guide
* Screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/1dLZWV9mv.png
<http://pasteboard.co/1dLZWV9mv.png>
[1] https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/> (examples/psk31_tx.grc)
[2] https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/> (examples/psk31_rx.grc)
[3] https://www.csun.edu/~skatz/katzpage/sdr_project/sdr/grc_tutorial3.pdf
<https://www.csun.edu/%7Eskatz/katzpage/sdr_project/sdr/grc_tutorial3.pdf>
On 6 September 2016 at 05:49, pen tester <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Tim,
Yes, your graphs are really useful :-) Thank you for
responding in such detail!
Here is what I am up to:
Transmit side:
* I made your changes to your transmit graph [1]
* All the changes were fine but I was confused about the use
of the Polyphase Resampler as I could not get the values to
work without underflows when executing i.e. "UUUU..."
* So instead (this is probably wrong) I tried using a Rational
Resampler with an Interpolation of 1e6 and a Decimation of 48e3.
* Updated version: http://pasteboard.co/hmyGOGTE4.png
<http://pasteboard.co/hmyGOGTE4.png>
* Either way, the tx graph looks healthier - just need some
advice on the resampler perhaps?
Receive side:
* I am using the start of this receive graph [2] as it was
using radio rx already
* and just modifying the demod portion to be more like your rx
graph
* Updated version: http://pasteboard.co/hmzrMBAIi.png
<http://pasteboard.co/hmzrMBAIi.png>
* I also need advice from anyone who could point in the right
direction on the AM rx side please?
[1] https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/> (examples/psk31_tx.grc)
[2] https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples
<https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples> (tutorial/6_psk.grc)
[3] https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/> (examples/psk31_rx.grc)
On 4 September 2016 at 12:33, Tim K <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Hey hey!
Glad to see someone using this. (And that it's apparently
still working! Goodness... I need to clean this up...)
I'm giving advice freehand right now, as I don't have my
radios with me to test this. There are definitely more
elegant ways for this solution, this is just the quickest I
could think of without reverse engineering what I wrote
forever ago.
Since this is AM, I think you'll only need the Real port on
your "Float to Complex" block. You can attach the "Null
Source" to the Imaginary port. Do a quick check to make sure
the real signal's not exceeding +/- 1... you might want to
attenuate it to +/- 0.7 for now, someone else should comment.
As far as the transmit side goes, I'd leave everything up to
the "Multiply" block untouched. Consider that your "audio
input" to the radio. After that...
- Multiply Const (set to 0.7 for safety)
- Polyphase Resampler (float/float) set to (1e6 / 48e3) -
This gets your sample rate up to radio speeds
- Float to Complex (in the Real port, Null Source to the
Imag port) - This makes your signal "complex AM"
- Send the Complex stream into your Osmocom Sink (set to
1e6 sps) - And transmit!
If I remember correctly, some radios don't like working at
non-integer sample rates. (The hackRF may be ok though...)
Play gently with your TX gain until you can see it on
another radio. (IIRC the HackRF is simplex... perhaps an
RTL?) Use AM to demodulate.
I've been meaning to do a write up on this for a while. If I
ever get around to it, I'll make sure to CC you.
- Tim
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:55 PM, pen tester
<address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to get a simple working example of PSk31
working (transmitting with a hackrf and receiving with a
rtlsdr dongle). Here is what I have so far.
Working PSK31 tx and rx with a sound card
==========================================
Transmit: https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/>
(examples/psk31_tx.grc)
Receive: https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/>
(examples/psk31_rx.grc)
These work great for sending a PSK31 message over audio
card and receiving with the audio card.
I just slightly modified them to take input from the
"Audio Source" block instead of a "Wav File Source" to
use the sound card directly:
Transmit Graph:
http://www.megafileupload.com/7sm9/psk31_tx.grc
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7sm9/psk31_tx.grc>
Transmit Image: http://pasteboard.co/giNm3kNzC.png
<http://pasteboard.co/giNm3kNzC.png> or
http://www.megafileupload.com/7smc/psk31_tx-audiocard.png
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7smc/psk31_tx-audiocard.png>
Receive Graph:
http://www.megafileupload.com/7sma/psk31_rx.grc
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7sma/psk31_rx.grc>
Receive Image: http://pasteboard.co/giOlxtWUf.png
<http://pasteboard.co/giOlxtWUf.png> or
http://www.megafileupload.com/7smb/psk31_rx-audiocard.png
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7smb/psk31_rx-audiocard.png>
Turning up the audio a little and tuning to 2003 approx
on the rx graph results in reception of the sent message
"Hello World!"
Reference version for using hackrf instead of sound card
==========================================================
Next, I wanted to modify these to audio versions to work
over Radio using a HackRF and RTLSDR dongle.
These graphs seems very useful but I couldn't get it
working end to end for some reason.
Transmit: https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples
<https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples> (multi_tx.grc)
Receive: https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples
<https://github.com/argilo/sdr-examples>
(tutorial/6_psk.grc)
I made some changes to the freq to be in range for
RTLSDR .e.g changed freq from 441e6 in ref graph,
changed to 841e6.
My merged attempt
=================
The attempt I am currently trying to get working is
based on the audio soundcard flies for the transmit:
Transmit: Using audio tx (psk31_tx_attempt2): where I
just replaced the audio sink with the Osmocom sink (not
sure what else is needed here for transmission over hackrf)
Transmit Graph:
http://www.megafileupload.com/7smi/psk31_tx-attempt2.grc
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7smi/psk31_tx-attempt2.grc>
Transmit Image: http://pasteboard.co/giOMGNqD9.png
<http://pasteboard.co/giOMGNqD9.png> or
http://www.megafileupload.com/7sme/psk31_tx-attempt2.png
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7sme/psk31_tx-attempt2.png>
Receive Graph:
http://www.megafileupload.com/7smh/6_psk-hackrf.grc
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7smh/6_psk-hackrf.grc>
Receive Image: http://pasteboard.co/giPflR4TI.png
<http://pasteboard.co/giPflR4TI.png> or
http://www.megafileupload.com/7smf/6_psk_hackrf.png
<http://www.megafileupload.com/7smf/6_psk_hackrf.png>
For the receive, I just left radio rx part in and
replaced the decoder parts with decoding logic from
https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/
<https://github.com/tkuester/gr-psk31/>
(examples/psk31_rx.grc). I made other minor changes such
as freq and sample rates.
My question
============
So in summary, just looking for a little guidance on my
merged attempt to get psk31 out over a hackrf and
received using a RTLSDR. Any advice for a learner would
be great :-)
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