# Re: Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), anybody running gr-dab?

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**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [August 28, 2015, 8:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-digital-audio-broadcast-dab-anybody-running-gr-dab/243164 "2015-08-28T08:49:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 8:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-digital-audio-broadcast-dab-anybody-running-gr-dab/243164/1 "2015-08-28T08:49:37Z")

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Hi Ruben and all,

thank you for your response. I am not sure if my last response found  
it’s way to you and the list. Nevertheless it contained a typo error. To  
keep it short:

I could just test it again and indeed the -c switch (fine frequency  
correction) did the trick. Both USRP N210 and an rtl-sdr dongle work  
perfectly.

Am Mittwoch, 26. August 2015 18:01 CEST, Ruben U.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) schrieb:

> (…)  
> Extending the code to support audio reception will be happily appreciated. I was  
> intending to do that, but I was a bit overwhelmed back them, and didn’t get time  
> for it. It should not be very hard according to Andreas.
> 
> I’m not aware of any other GNU Radio code that supports audio reception. Anyone  
> else?

Before receiving audio I think a few additions have to be made to the  
fib\_sink\_vb\_impl class.  
The process\_fig method needs to be extended to support more FIG types  
and their extensions.  
I tried to do that on my own yesterday, but it is quite exhausting –  
you really need some time to read the standard and implement the code.  
Nevertheless the project is really well-prepared and it’s pretty nice to  
already work on bits instead of symbols as the signal processing,  
demodulation and channel decoding is already done.

There is another nice DAB project at [1], but as far as I have seen it  
is not based on gnuradio. Nevertheless USRPs are supported via UHD (not  
sure if yet available as not displayed in the GUI) and several other  
hardware. Though I haven’t compiled it because of lack of dependencies  
on my Linux Mint. In my Win7 VM I have trouble to get the rtl-sdr driver  
issues resolved. In /src/backend you find their fib\_processor. An MSC  
handler is implemented as well (for DAB/MP2, DAB+/MP4).

Cheers  
Matthias

[1] [Software defined radio](http://www.sdr-j.tk/index.html)
