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Johann T. johann.tzt at gmail.com
Fri May 1 15:25:37 UTC 2020


Hi Sylvain,

Thank you for your quick reply. Much appreciated!

I will try your suggestions and come back to you when I have more results.

Best regards,
Johann



On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:53 PM Sylvain Munaut <246tnt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Johann,
>
> So, first wrt to different formula, the spec is definitely right ...
> (I mean it's the spec ...).
> However they are narrow channels and if your B210 is not GPS
> disciplined, its oscillator could be out quite a bit. It's default
> xtal is only rated to +- 20ppm and that's a 30 kHz error at 1.5 GHz
> ... so you can be off by a full channel just with that.
>
> Second, the frequency you give to gmr1_rx_sdr.py is where to tune. In
> reality you want to tune not to the channel directly but a bit to the
> side so that the DC offset and 1/f noise at the center of the capture
> don't mess up the data. The script will automatically filter and
> recenter the proper frequency depending on the -a argument you passed
> to it.
>
> Finally that python script only does the sample and channelization,
> and saves to a cfile in /tmp it doesn't do any of the decoding at all.
> For that you need to also run gmr1_rx binary ( or gmr1_rx_live , see
> the live branch ) on the recording. And it's that one that will take
> the raw samples do all the demod and decoding of the channels and send
> the data to wireshark.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Sylvain
>
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