Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Running tunnel.py/benchmark_tx.py (OFDM) with XCVR2450?

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 31/01/12 08:37 AM, Andrew Davis wrote:

>One thing that I noticed was that the --tx-amp=0.8. That's very high for OFDM with it's large PAPR.

I'm thinking that too, there really should be some kind of warning when you drive the DAC to saturation.

It's not the DAC that's typically the problem, it's the final RF amplifier on the daughter-card, and
  that's not precisely predictable from the software side.

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