5–9 Sept 2023
ASU Memorial Union (2nd Floor)
US/Arizona timezone
GRCon23 will be running from Tuesday Sept 5 to Saturday Sept 9 this year.

Introductory Tutorial for SDR and GNU Radio Beginners

5 Sept 2023, 13:00
4h
La Paz (ASU Memorial Union 2nd Floor)

La Paz

ASU Memorial Union 2nd Floor

Workshop New Users Workshop

Speaker

Murat Sever (TOBB ETU)

Description

Tutorial aims to introduce fundamental DSP concepts and GNU Radio to new users. It consists of the following lab modules that are all based on Jupyter Notebooks.

  • Lab DSP: GNU Radio will be introduced. It will be leveraged to generate mono/stereo sound, make filtering on generated sound. Sound card will be utilized to learn fundamental DSP concepts like sampling rate, aliasing, filtering (FIR, cutoff frequency, transient range, taps), decimation.
  • Lab SDR: SDR hardware used throughout the labs is introduced: RTL-SDR. General purpose SDR application (SDR# or gqrx) is explored to receive samples from RTL-SDR. Spectrum monitoring (live and waterfall), demodulation is illustrated with it.
  • Lab WBFM: WBFM signal may contain more than one signal: mono, stereo, sub-channels, HD, and a data channel. Flow-graphs are created to demodulate WBFM signals in GNU Radio. Mono/stereo sound, single/multi channel, real-time demodulation examples will be presented. User will also apply Python coding to demodulate WBFM signals.
Talk Length N/A
Link to Open Source Code https://github.com/ARDC-TOBB-ETU/GRCon23Tutorial

Primary author

Murat Sever (TOBB ETU)

Presentation materials