Sunday, February 26, 2012

[Discuss-gnuradio] FM receiver with RDS

Here's a teaser screen shot of what I've been working on.

I'm not happy with the bit synchronization in the decoder function, so
I'm not releasing this yet. But here's a screenshot.

(And no, I'm not a fan of Country, but that station has a strong RDS
signal, so it lets me do more testing :-) ).

The other station on the *same* tower has a signal that's about 12dB
lower, and the RDS carrier is quite weak--according to the
registration data, they're both putting out 100kW, but the weaker
station is 100ft lower on the tower. Propagation, how it work? :-) :-)

Both stations I use are just over 100km away from me, and I'm using a TVRX2.


--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org

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