[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio and Solar Eclipse

[John Ackermann N8UR]

As part of the HamSci (http://hamsci.org) solar eclipse experiment I 
recorded a bunch of IQ data from HF radio during the eclipse, using 
Gnuradio (plus the gr-hpsdr and gr-digital_rf modules) for all signal 
processing.

A Red Pitaya running at 2.5 Msamples/sec recorded the entire AM 
broadcast band, and an HPSDR Hermes recorded four virtual channels, each 
at 384 ksamples/sec, covering the 80M, 40M, 30M, and 20M ham bands.  The 
data totals just under 1 TB for the 8 hours of recording.

Initial analysis is in the form of time-lapse movies of each band that 
compress 8 hours of data (displayed in FFT form) into about 3 minutes. 
This provides a quick way to see if anything happened, and a clue where 
to zoom in for more detailed analysis.

Rather than making this a long email with lots of boring detail and 
links, my blog at http://blog.febo.com has links to the movies on 
YouTube, as well as the Gnuradio scripts, background details, etc.

I'm going to be talking about the eclipse experiment, as will Dr. 
Nathaniel Frissell (W2NAF), professor at New Jersey Institute of 
Technology and head of the HamSCI project, at the upcoming ARRL/TAPR 
Digital Communications Conference in St. Louis on Sep. 15-17.  Most 
Gnuradio types will find lots of interesting content at the conference, 
so if you can get to St. Louis, please join us!  Details at 
http://tapr.org/dcc.

John