Hi all,
The latest Chaosradio Express (CRE) episode has just been released,
and it is about trunked radio, TETRA, security aspects and the Osmocom
TETRA project.
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre183.html
(and yes, it's German, like all CRE episodes...)
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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Hi!
I've borrowed a Funcube Dongle Pro and tried to use it with
osmocom-tetra. I've manually tuned it to a tetra carrier using the
Qt-GUI, and it I can see the carrier very clearly in the spectrum/fft.
However, I'm getting many more bit errors than with a USRP2+WBX board.
Also, I have the feeling that the WBX has a much higher sensitivity,
even with the FCDP input LNA at 30dB maxed out.
Can anyone confirm these findings?
I'll do some more investigation and report back here.
Regards,
Harald
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Hi,
I've modified the usrp2 script to use the UHD gnuradio driver for new USRP
(UHD-only) hardware.
It seems to work with my N200+WBX setup, but gnuradio is pretty new to me, so
there might be some bugs.
Since I'm using the WBX my antenna port is 'TX/RX'.
I'm not sure if this is a good default value, it's configurable though.
Clemens Hopfer
Hi!
For those interested, I've taken apart the case and did some
investigation how the FCDP hardware architecture looks like.
The results are available at
http://tetra.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/Funcube_Dongle
It seems the silicon tuner actually is intended for DVB-T, thus the
bandwidth it can down-convert is _much_ higher. However, the audio
codec that they use can only do 96kHz.
That's actually really sad. I wish they had used something with higher
ADC rate. But it seems like even high-end audio codecs never get you
beyond 196/216 kHz - still insufficient for e.g. GSM.
Regards,
Harald
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