Re: Question regarding transmission of a tone using QPSK

Hi Jeff Long,

Thank you so much for your reply.

I understand the plot of the signal source now. I have the mpsk_stage6.grc running properly from the tutorial, and was able to compare the transmitting and receiving bit streams. I attached the grc file to this email. Additionally, could you please elaborate more on the byte output of the signal source? Are they packed? Unpacked?

Moreover, as you stated that i should encode an analog signal to data before transmission, so does that mean I also have to use codecs in order to transmit a tone?

My last question would be: if I were to transmit an mp3 file, which is already encoded, will i be able to recover the audio using audio decoders?

Thanks again for your help!

Lannan Jiang

ps: I apologize for my many questions as they may seem very basic. I am an engineering student and I am greatly thankful for your advice.

From: Discuss-gnuradio <discuss-gnuradio-bounces+jln925=live.com@gnu.org> on behalf of Jeff Long <willcode4@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question regarding transmission of a tone using QPSK

A better explanation of why that plot is correct: if you sample a tone twice per cycle, you see [-1,1,-1,1,...]. Four times per cycle, looks like [-1,0,1,0,...]. Even though it looks discontinuous, it will sound like a tone when played through your sound card due to filtering in the audio software and/or hardware.

That tutorial goes through the low level portions of the digital chain, including timing recovery. Framing, error correction and (optionally) an audio codec would all be in addition to the blocks shown in the tutorial.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 9:03 PM Jeff Long <willcode4@gmail.com> wrote:

Depending on your sample rate and tone frequency, that plot would be correct.

The analog signal needs to be encoded somehow as data before transmission. While you could feed an audio file 2 bits at a time into a QPSK modulator, it's pretty unlikely that you will be able to recover the audio. If you're thinking of "transmitting audio", look into audio codecs. If you're thinking of sending a wav file, you're really just sending packets. Either way, you will need a complete chain that includes error correction, clock recovery, etc.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:58 PM lannan jiang <jln925@live.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I have been following the PSK guided tutorial https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Guided_Tutorial_PSK_Demodulation . I am on the mpsk_stage6.grc, but I want to transmit a simple tone instead of a random source, so I added a signal source which generates a sine wave. However, here are my questions:

1. I select the output of the signal source as bytes, and the time plot of it is attached. As you can see, the plot looks like bursts. But if I add an audio sink after signal source directly, I hear a constant tone. This does not make sense to me, as I thought I should hear discontinuous sound as the plot shows, could someone explain this?

2. With the first question being said, I am using a constellation modulator (QPSK) that takes 2 bits/symbol.

How can I feed the output of signal source ( a 16-bit audio file later on) to the constellation modulator properly?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Lannan Jiang

From:	lannan jiang
Subject:	Re: Question regarding transmission of a tone using QPSK
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:49:06 +0000