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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio
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ikjtel |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio |
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Sat, 1 Jan 2011 06:12:55 -0800 (PST) |
> Anybody else had any success in tapping the IQ in a receiver
> and feeding that into GNURadio?
Yes - haven't gotten into the 9-10 MHz range IF's, but I have built converters
for 455 KHz IF's - overall they work quite well although there are some slight
compromises in the overall system; for example I've found that the AGC action
in the host receiver may interfere somewhat with some types of signals although
it's not usually a severe problem.
After building several I/Q converters it was discovered that (for our
application) it wasn't necessary to perform quadrature sampling in hardware -
that is, it was sufficient simply to downconvert the signal to the center of
the soundcard range and sample that conventionally using a single soundcard
input channel. The signal is then "converted" to the complex format entirely
in software (setting the real components to the input values and stuffing zeros
into the imaginary (Q) components). This has the advantages of simplifying the
hardware and of freeing up one of the two soundcard input channels.
It would no doubt be straightforward to extend these ideas to the 9-10 MHz
IF's. One thing though is that there's perhaps 50-60 dB more signal available
to work with after the 455 KHz IF amp chain has done its work. So if you tap
into the 9-10 MHz IF you may be looking at building up a relatively significant
amount of RF gain yourself...
Here are links to a couple of my pages containing schematic and other diagrams,
and application notes:
http://www.lightlink.com/mhp/lsm/
http://www.lightlink.com/mhp/iq/
Good luck
Max
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