On 03/28/2011 06:41 PM, Yan Nie wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I'm using LFRX to detect a -120dBm signal. According to my measurement, the lowest power of signal that LFRX is able to detect is -90dBm. I tried deploy a preamplifier to amplify the received signal by certain dB in order to reach the -90dBm, but this turned out that noise is amplified as well and the signal still merges in noise, undetectable. I also tried to set proper bandwidth for the lowpass filter in order to eliminate noise and avoid the signal distortion to the largest extend, but this still cannot allow this weak signal be detected.
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> The flow-graph of my receiver is:
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> usrp_source_c --> Blackman lowpass filter --> file_sink(gr.sizeof_gr_complex)
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> The signal that I wish to detect is a 13-bit Barker code with 40 us chip rate. The samples frequency at receiver side is 250kHz which gives the decimation rate 256. Regarding with the Blackman lowpass filter, the sampling frequency for this filter is 35kHz, and the cutoff frequency is 17kHz, transition_width is 0.1kHz.
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> Really appreciate any of your help!
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What's the carrier frequency?
At -120dBm, you do need a low-noise amplifier with sufficient gain to
overcome the noise of the ADC.
Higher-noise amplifiers might indeed have the effect you're seeing.
I've used the ERA-3 series from
Mini-Circuits sucessfully for low-noise HF reception at around 38MHz
on a BASIC_RX.
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