A few weeks ago I started learning my way around gnuradio and am making
progress, but could use advice from experienced users.
I’ve been making something of an online lab notebook recording my
efforts in gnuradio at:
Gnuradio Mini Projects
At the very bottom of that page is a section named “Morse Code Decoder”
where I show a flowgraph I’ve come up with. I can’t figure out how to
take it farther than that, however. I believe I need to learn how to
write an out of tree demodulator. If I’m wrong, maybe someone can give
me a push in the right direction regarding how to use existing blocks.
If I’m correct, what would be the best modulator to study - BPSK?
(“Best,” meaning easiest for someone new to gnuradio to understand.)
Thanks very much,
Mike M.
On 06/03/15 19:19, Mike M. wrote:
take it farther than that, however. I believe I need to learn how to
write an out of tree demodulator. If I’m wrong, maybe someone can give
me a push in the right direction regarding how to use existing blocks.
If I’m correct, what would be the best modulator to study - BPSK?
(“Best,” meaning easiest for someone new to gnuradio to understand.)
I would pass this through a threshold block, followed by a float to
char, then out to a file (pipe) or UDP socket.
Then write your own code to take in the stream of 1’s and 0’s, and
decode the morse that way.
I essentially do this with my SDR radio clocks, but then I’m just
looking for a pulse of 100, 200, or 500msec, but the concept and the
theory are the same. I just used getc() and stdin.
For my purposes I dropped it down to a 1kHz stream of 1’s and 0’s
(actually by use of a Goertzel filter as I was tuning slightly off for
debug and able to hear it purposes!), but a Rational Re-sampler would
do just as well.
Auto detecting speed can be done - I actually wrote a prototype for use
with the CW ID of the Russian BETA Time Stations, that essentially
took a number of pulse’s and gaps, worked out the differences, then
decoded the next set of dits and dahs. To be honest it was pretty
awful, but then I just needed to decode two numbers…
Iain
On 03/06/2015 03:30 PM, Martin B. wrote:
Mike,
have you gone through our beginner’s tutorials? […]
Martin, I will revisit them. At this early stage, at each iteration I
absorb some more. Your note implies my answer is there, so off I go…
On 03/06/2015 04:08 PM, Iain Young, G7III wrote:
I would pass this through a threshold block, followed by a float to
char, then out to a file (pipe) or UDP socket.
Then write your own code to take in the stream of 1’s and 0’s, and
decode the morse that way. […]
Thanks, Iain, I hadn’t thought of passing the info to another program.
I hope to keep it self-contained in gnuradio, but if that fails I’ll use
your idea. It would certainly be easy to timestamp each incoming sample
that way!
Thanks very much, guys,
Mike