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> Once you start playing around in GNU Radio and decoding more exotic stuff Do you have any tips or resources on how to get to a competency level where you get
by looklookatme 6y ago
> Once you start playing around in GNU Radio and decoding more exotic stuff
Do you have any tips or resources on how to get to a competency level where you get to decode arbitrary digital signals you find from a scan?
I've read through all the GNU Radio documentation, along with the examples on their wiki and have even written my own blocks but keep finding that opening a grc file that someone else authored, there will be a critical block I've never seen before (and likely, never see again) which hampers experimentation. As soon as I attempt to decode a real-life signal, it feels like I dove in too fast -- there's too many unknowns, since the end result is [presumably] not going to be a nice, human-readable string. However, occasionally, I find challenges like [1] which are great, since you have the expectation that the signal _can_ be decoded; it's just that I've found examples like these to be quite rare.
[1] https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/2018-02-21-gnu-radio-challenge-21-feb-2018/ https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/2018-02-21-gnu-radio-challenge...
- jcims 6y agoNot the person you asked but once gnuradio flowgraphs started to function materially outside of basic flowgraph blocks stitched together, or worse, wrapped by some python script, I would have to tap out. It's one thing to demodulate some manchester encoded OOK/FSK signal from some ISM-band hardware monitor vs. 64-QAM or GMSK. At some point it, to me, becomes indistinguishable from magic. Fluency in DSP is, IMHO, mandatory to be broadly effective with GNU Radio.