I’m attempting and failing to use a USRP2 w/RFX1800 to transmit a known
good L1 GPS signal sample to a COTS receiver for some repeatable
hardware
testing work. The code transmits without error messages however the
receiver doesn’t “track†any satellites from a cold start with a sample
of
sufficient length and I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing incorrectly so
I’ll document what I’ve done so far in hopes that someone will point out
something obvious to persons with more DSP background than myself.
Input Sample (simple amplitude IF @ 5Msamples/sec and a IF frequency of
1.25Mhz)
I convert this to a complex sample file using some C code setting Q to 0
for
all samples and scaling I from a signed char (-127:128) to a float
between
(-1:1).
I then build a basic flow in python from the sample file to a USRP2 sink
setting the center frequency CF to 1.57542G, and a interpolation of 20
to
convert the 5Msamp/sec to 100Msamp/sec. The waveform transmits for the
expected 60 sec.
Do I need to offset the CF to compensate for the IF being @ 1.25Mhz
rather
than baseband? Any other areas of gotchas, filters etc that a DSP noob
is
missing?
Thank you in advance.