Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why not use matched filter in GMSK demodulator

[Achilleas Anastasopoulos]

There is no reason why you should not use a matched filter.
However make sure you understand that a symbol-spaced MF
generates sufficient statistics only for detection,
ie, not for (epoch) synchronization.
Also note that in the case of GMSK (CPM in general) a bank of MFs will 
generate colored noise.
Another appropriate implementation of a front end projects the entire 
oversampled signal to a set of orthonormal basis functions which has the 
advantage of generating white noise samples for (simpler) further 
processing.

Take a look at how a generic receiver for an arbitrary CPM
is developed in

http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk/gr-trellis/src/examples/test_cpm.py

There, the signal is first projected to its basis functions (which is 
calculated by a helper python application in "fsm_utils.py")
to generate a sufficient statistic which is then used in conjunction 
with trellis decoding to do soft-decision sequence detection.
What is missing though is epoch and phase syncronization (to do at some 
point...)

Achilleas