On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:52 AM, guelord ingala
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Hi,
I've got 2 units of USRP1 and DBSRX dboards. The two USRP are synchronized for master and slave. the uhd_fft.py is responding correctly. Now I want to use a signal generator to provide 900 MHz. signal level is -20 dBm. From the gnuradio-companion, I created a flow graph using UHD-USRP Source connected to WX-GUI-FFT Sink. The setup are as follow:
For USRP source: ID: uhd_usrp_source_0 Device Addr: fpga=usrp1_fpga_4rx.rbf Sync: Don'y sink
Clock rate: default Num Mboards:1 Mbo Clock source: default Mbo Time source:default Mbo Subdevice Spec: Num Channel: 1 Sample rate (sps): 32K Cho Center freq: 900M
Cho Gain:30 dB Cho Antenna: RXA Cho Bandwidth:10M
For FFT Sink: Sample rate:32k Baseband freq:900M
With this setup, only noise is plotted in the FFT. I don't see the signal at 900MHz. And even if I remove the daughterboard from the usrp, the result
is unchanged: Noise only. Can you please tell me what is wrong with the setup, and what to do if I want to use the side B. Also which USRP must I use: the master, the slave or both. Please help.
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I think your sample rate is way too low for the USRP. When you run the program, you should see a warning being printed that you tried to set the sample rate to 32 kHz but the actual sample rate was something else. This could cause some confusion in your setup.
Also, make sure that you are going into the right antenna port on the USRP.
Finally, a -20 dBm signal and 30 dB of gain in the USRP is a really loud signal. You might be swamping your front end. I'd put the input signal down to -50 dBm to start with and lower the gain. Up the gain slowly as necessary.
Tom