GPRS, EDGE support

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Holger Hans Peter Freyther holger at freyther.de
Mon Jan 27 12:49:43 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 06:29:00PM -0500, Tom Tsou wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther
> <holger at freyther.de> wrote:
> > SDRs provide the greatest flexibility but unless you have specific
> > RF filters in your frontend you will not pass the harmonized norms
> > of the European Union for GSM.
> 
> I think this statement is quite dated.

Ah cool. Can you point me to papers/text showing how the n-th harmonic
is being removed from the spectrum?

> A calibrated USRP N200 running osmo-trx passes RF spectrum and
> modulation accuracy requirements of 3GPP 05.05 by very large margins
> and is competitive with commercial GSM equipment in this regard. Other
> SDR devices are also capable to varying degrees.

The policy of FCC vs. European Union is quite different. There are more
norms that apply in Europe.




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