Fwd: OTA Encoding/Decoding with Ettus SDR & GNURadio

[Roman A Sandler]

Here is a cleaner updated flowchart from my previous question: https://imgur.com/1uuqT9J

(I removed lines running behind blocks - Thanks Marcus for the tip)

-Roman

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From: Roman A Sandler <rsandler00@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:31 AM
Subject: OTA Encoding/Decoding with Ettus SDR & GNURadio
To: <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
Cc: <sholloway@intellisenseinc.com>

Hi, I am trying to do over-the-air (OTA) encoding and decoding using GNURadio and an Ettus SDR. I used a basic flowgraph (shown at https://imgur.com/a/P846OSe) which I know can correctly decode the encoded signal w/ 0 BER in simulation (w/o/ the SDR blocks). However, using the SDR sink/source blocks, I can no longer recover the correct bits. Here is how the visualized recovered data looks like: https://imgur.com/a/Z5JfvjS. As you can see I am unable to recover the original encoded bits. 

So my questions are:

1) What am I doing wrong?

2) Are there any articles/tutorials which discuss how to encode/decode w/ GNURadio & Ettus SDR?

Thanks,

Roman