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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] always a spike on the FFT at the center frequency


From: Matt Ettus
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] always a spike on the FFT at the center frequency
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:34:30 -0800
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On 12/01/2010 01:16 PM, William Cox wrote:
Whenever I run the userp_fft.py script (USRP1, Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10),
there's almost always a large spike (10-20 db above the noise floor) at
the center frequency. This is the same for all the daughter boards I've
tried (WBX, LFRX, and BasicRX).
Why is this? What am I missing?


This is due to truncation in the USRP. If you add 0.5 to the signal, it should go away.

Matt




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