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OTA Capture

Below are several OTA captures that should be useful for software development and working with the USRP library.  You can demodulate and listen to most of the signals below without USRP hardware.  Each of the samples below can be demodulated using samples provided on the software page.

The format of each sample file is Intel endian, 32-bit floating point values in I, Q, I, Q, I, Q, order...
 
Link Date Data Rate Format Source Description OTA Frequency
Trunked Radio / Sample 1 of 2
Trunked Radio / Sample 2 of 2
12 Sep 2005 256ksps / complex Data / NBFM Trunked Radio10 Public Service Band 860.2625 MHz
LF Capture 12 Sep 2005 256ksps / complex Multiple LF9 WWVB / Loran-C 0.125 MHz
GPS Snapshot 12 Sep 2005 4msps / complex DSSS Baseband GPS8 GPS Snapshot (60 seconds) 1575.42 MHz
HD AM Radio 12 Sep 2005 256ksps / complex AM Baseband AM Broadcast Band7 Broadcast Station KFYI 0.520 MHz
WBFM Broadcast 24 Apr 2005 512ksps / complex WBFM Baseband FM Broadcast Band6 Broadcast Station KMPX 96.9 MHz
WBFM Broadcast 24 Apr 2005 512ksps / complex WBFM Baseband FM Broadcast Band6 Broadcast Station KEZ 99.9 MHz
WBFM Broadcast 24 Apr 2005 512ksps / complex WBFM Baseband FM Broadcast Band6 Broadcast Station KNIX 102.5 MHz
NTSC SMPTE Color Bars 24 Apr 2005 8msps / complex NTSC Signal Generator4 SMPTE Color Bars 69.750 MHz
GPS Snapshot 20 Apr 2005 4msps / complex DSSS Baseband GPS5 GPS Snapshot (500 mS) 1575.42 MHz
SSB-LSB / Data 25 Mar 2005 512ksps / complex SSB - LSB / Data Amateur Band3 Wide Band Width HF reception 14.200 MHz
GPS Snapshot 25 Mar 2005 4msps / complex DSSS Baseband GPS2 GPS Snapshot (500 mS) 1575.42 MHz
AM Broadcast Band 25 Mar 2005 256ksps / complex Multiple AM stations AM Broadcast Band Blah-Blah Talk Radio AM 0.600 MHz
AM / SSB 25 Mar 2005 256ksps / complex AM / SSB - LSB Amateur Band HF reception 7.200 MHz
HF - 10.000MHz -WWV 25 Mar 2005 256ksps / complex AM Baseband SW / WWV1 HF reception 10.000 MHz
SSB - LSB 24 Jan 2005 256ksps / complex SSB - LSB TS-2000X SSB demonstration 50.300 MHz
SSB - USB 24 Jan 2005 256ksps / complex SSB - USB TS-2000X SSB demonstration 50.300 MHz
AM Baseband 18 Jan 2005 256ksps / complex AM Baseband FFZ - ATIS Single AM station at baseband 118.250 MHz
FM Voice 18 Jan 2005 256ksps / complex NBFM NWS Four (4) FM voice stations 162.475 MHz


10 
Motorola 3600 bps Trunked Radio control channel.  NBFM traffic heard -25KHz lower.  Control channel indicated talk group was active and to switch to frequency.  Two 30 second samples of control channel with traffic.

LF (Low Frequency), almost so low you can "hear" it, that contains a wide variety of stations including WWVB at 60KHz and Loran-C at 100KHz.  Tune AM demod -25KHz to hear Loran-C and CW demod -65KHz to WWVB at 1 BPS.  Yes, one bit per second.

60 second capture.  Snapshot contains at least one set of ephemeris data.  A complete position fix is now possible.

Station that is broadcasting HD audio Ibiquity Digital.  HD audio in the AM band provides near FM station quality.  Basically the signal contains the standard AM program as well as an OFDM (64-QAM) upper and lower side band.  I wonder how good the linearity of the transmitter has to be for that?  The following is one of many Ibiquity Digital White Papers that describes the signal.

Full band-width FM broadcast signal.  Stations contain SCA (Subsidiary Communications Authorization) and RBDS (Radio Broadcast Data System).  The RBDS system provides song title, artist, station callsign, and other basic information that is displayed on common automotive receivers.  The RBDS signal is a 57KHz (3 x 19KHz pilot tone) sub carrier that is BPSK modulated at 1187.5 bps.  The full standard is contained in the US RBDS Standard dated April 9, 1998.

GPS snapshot taken at 0522 UTC on 21 Apr 2005.  SV 3, 8, 13, 16, 19, 20, 23, 27 and WAAS 35 and 47 were visible.  Additional details given in foot note 2 (two) below.

4  NTSC Video Carrier at -2.50MHz, Audio Carrier at +2.0MHz (1KHz modulation)

Amateur Radio contest in progress.  Large number of stations across the band.  60 second recording of band.

GPS snapshot taken at 0008 UTC on 26 Mar 2005.  SV 1, 3, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 25 and WAAS 47 were visible as reported by Garmin GPSmap 296 with v3.20 firmware.  Strong signal, open sky antenna used with down converter.  Sampled at 4msps, which is faster than required.  However, the CIC filters in the USRP don't give the full capture band width and roll off and fold back.  To capture the full band width of the GPS signal, over sampling was used.

Radio Station WWV uses a set of special tones for frequency calibration and time dissemination.  These tones can be decoded with the USRP to provide accurate time information.

 

 

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