Thursday, July 25, 2019

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Units of data saved by filesink

On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 13:24 -0400, Ellie White wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> Good to know. So how would you recommend I should convert these values to, say, watts?

I described exactly that in my other email.

> (I guess perhaps it would be watts squared due to the mag to mag squared block).

No. Amplitudes are proportional to voltage, squared amplitudes to
power. Physics!

> I assume I would first have to determine what the SDR considers full scale -- do you have any suggestions on how to do that?
>

Calibration with a known power source.

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