Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

[Martin Braun (CEL)]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:47:49AM -0400, Vikas N Kumar wrote:
> - I was hoping to find out if anyone here knows about or has resources
> where GNU radio is being used for doing such things. If yes, what
> algorithms are possibly used to scramble the content ? Do the
> algorithms depend on the hardware or since this is SDR it doesn't
> matter ?

That's a bit unspecific.

> - i have used GNU radio successfully to receive FM waves and listen to
> music. however, while trying to transmit I am not having much success
> and have not found much documentation on that. Does anyone
> successfully transmit using GNU radio or are they using separate
> software ?

Transmission is fine, works just as good as receiving. We couldn't
transmit data between USRPs otherwise.

> - can we transmit and receive at the same time in the same application
> using the same hardware ?

This question has a *lot* of caveats. I'll assume you know what you're
doing (and what you can realistically expect), and then the answer is
yes, GNU Radio can do that.

MB

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