On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:41:19AM -0700, Karthik Vijayraghavan wrote:
> I am trying to use the LFRX daughterboard to record very low frequency
> signals in the range of ~DC to about 10Hz. To test this I hooked up a
> function generator to the USRP with an output impedance of 50 ohm. Since I
> wanted to get 4 channels simultaneously I loaded the "std_4rx_0tx.rbf" image
> and looked at the signals after recording to a file. The daughterboard seems
> to be having a DC blocking behaviour where the amplitude of received signals
> decreases with lower frequencies. My rx gain is set to 0 and Vin = 1Vpp with
> 0 DC offset. At 10Hz I get an amplitude of 400 from the ADC. At 1 Hz it
> drops to 40 and I get nothing at DC. I have tried fiddling around with the
> gain, but it doesn't help much.
>
> This seems to be weird behaviour since the LFRX is supposed to work upto DC.
> Am I missing something? I have read all the previous posts on this issue and
> they weren't helpful for my problem. Any hints/directions would be greatly
> appreciated. I have spent quite a bit of time on this can't figure out the
> problem.
>
> Karthik
Karthik,