This commits introduces a significant redesign of the AX.25 decoding
block. Due to the poor AX.25 sync flag, the decoders exhibited too many
false alarms. To deal with this problem, we introduced the quadrature
demod filter block, that tried to measure the SNR based on the running
variance of the signal. The problem with that was that the user should
have to fine tune two parameters, the one related with the amplitude of
the incoming signal and the second one related with the window that the
calculations should take place. This solution worked until now, but we
can always increase the performance.
The new AX.25 decoder stores the bitstream in a queue and always tries
to exlpoit possible valid frames in the queue. If now sync flags have
been encountered, the queue is flushed. After a valid frame extraction,
bits corresponding to this frame are also deleted from the queue.
This technique requires more memory and CPU, but it increases a lot the
decoding performance.
* Introduce the hysteresis option, in order the CW demodulator to adjust
properly the plateau length based on the WPM and any filtering that can
be used before
* Instead for a frame per word, now the CW decoder waits for 10 long
spaces before it commits a frame. With this way many words are placed on
the same frame telemetry decoding is easier
std::bitset can be used only with compile time known size. Most of the flowgraphs take the shift register size as a parameter through the GRC so it cannot be used. This commit implements a shift register using the std::deque that supports arbitrary number of memory stages
Seems that there is a probleb with general blocks and the history, so
the filter cannot act as valve. However, it produces zeros, in the
presence of noise.
This is an attempt to cut the signal free period after the quadrature
demodulation block. The idea seems that works, but there still an issue
with the samples not passing correctly from the valve.
The CW encoder is a debug block that can be used to check the
performance of the CW decoder of gr-satnogs module under different RF
conditions. It can also serve as a perfect debug tool for sattelite
missions.
CW decoding using match filtering is pretty much useless in LEO.
The information about the tone frequency is very rare and carrier
oscillations during the satellite pass reduce significantly the
performance.
The new next CW decoder is based on the autocorrelation of the received
signal.
* Start Ogg source block
* Add OGG audio source block
The number of output streams for this block should match the number of
audio streams contained inside the ogg file. If there is a mismatch an
appropriate exception is thrown.
* UDP Message source can handle multiple data types
* Add a waterfall sink block
* Fix dependency issues with VOLK
* Add mean and max hold mode to the waterfall sink
* Add mean and max hold mode to the waterfall sink
* Install satnogs_waterfall.gp gnuplot script at
<install_prefix>/share/satnogs/scripts
* Automatically retrieve x and y axis ranges at the satnogs_waterfall.gp
Sebastian
Manolis Surligas
Thanos Gkiolias
Nikos Karamolegkos
George Vardakis
Kostis Triantayllakis
Manolis Surligas