You will need:2x USRP2's. http://www.ettus.com
2x USRP Daughterboards. Frequency of your choice (I use two RFX2400's).
2x Antennas to match your DBoard frequency (log periodics seem to work pretty well).
2x Beefy Laptops with GbE. I use Dell M6400's.
A GNURadio installation. http://gnuradio.org
Optionally, Octave or MATLAB, for data analysis.
The Ettus USRP2 has ADC's running at 100MHz. However, the GbE interface limits you to 25 megasamples per second, so this cuts your effective bandwidth to 25MHz. This is true on both transmit and receive.
***UPDATE***
Project code is now hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/its-sounder/.
Although this is not as cool as Xanga, "e-props" on the new blog! -Maness
ReplyDeleteHello Jordan,
ReplyDeleteI'm a student at the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. I'm working on my thesis project, making an implementation of a software-based channel sounder with USRP2.
I downloaded the project code (its-sounder) code from SourceForge but I could not install it. I find it interesting their work to include in my research. It has some material or how-to that permits a correct installation of the program?
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Camilo Díaz.
I have already installed gnu-radio without problems, but do not know how to add the 'its-sounder' project.
ReplyDeletePlease Help!