Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-users] USRP2/Gnuradio - satellite application

[Marcus Müller]

Dear Abs,

you've asked this question on discuss-gnuradio and already got two answers.
In case you've missed those, and to avoid that people tell you what you already know:

Sylvain wrote that, due to a large number of factors contributing to what you see as digital amplitude, you will need to calibrate yourself, using exactly the system you want to use to measure power:

You mean you want the signal power as a dBm value ?

Just won't happen ... Too many things in the chain, you'd have to
calibrate it for a specific freq / board / gain / temp / phase of the
moon / ...

And I explained that if you have a mathematical representation of how your estimator works, you might be able to write a custom estimator block for both of your values of interest:

I assume you already have definite formulas that define the estimator for these two numbers.
Unless you can directly "click together" that estimator in GRC, you will most likely have to implement it.
In many cases, doing this in Python is rather easy (especially if you come from a python or matlab background),
so I'd recommend reading at least the first 3 chapters of
https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Guided_Tutorials

If these answers didn't help you out, I think it would be wise to explain what these answers are lacking, instead of just re-posting the same question.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 06/01/2015 06:17 AM, Abdeslam Bourkane via USRP-users wrote:

Good evening,

I will appreciate  your help and guidance. since 3 weeks I'm trying to implement  an application 

 to derive the sky noise and attenuation from a beacon satellite signal. Using gnuardio and USRP2 (Ettus N210) I'm able to receive the and see the beacon signal at a defined frequency (FFT plot). What I need is write an application in python or C++ that allow to me to retrieve and plot the skynoise and attenuation values. 

The problem I have is when using the blocks in gnuradio how to retrieve the signal power so then I can use a math formulas to derive both attenuation and skynoise and then plot them again in new graph to show them?

I would appreciate any help from your side.

Thank you and best regards

Abs

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