LimeSDR FM transceiver GnuRadio

Hello everyone,

I am afraid this is a dumb question but, I am trying to transmit a sound file using GnuRadio and all i can ear (on Rx side of the same limeSDR) is noise. This is my Gnuradio file:

Can someone spot anything wrong with my configurations?

Btw, i have two antennas connected to RX1_H and TX2_1

Thank you in advance.

André Martins.

On the transmit side - the decimation should be 48k

On the receive side - If you want to tune the frequency received, use the “Frequency Xlating FIR Filter”.

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Thank you for your answer but still doesn’t work, can’t listen anything but noise.

Here is a narrow band fm receiver for 2 meters from the gnu website -

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/NBFM_Receive

perhaps you could use that as a starting point.

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Hi @andremartins4,

For LimeSDR source block, I found calibration bandwidth to set 0 significantly improves the sound quality.

This is my fm-receiver block in gnuradio 3.8:

here is the properties for limesdr source block that works for me for both commercial FM channels and my own fm transmission test

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another important thing to note is the sample rate, which I decreased from 2MHz (on limesource) to 48KHz (audio sink) gradually in each block operation.

Hope this help…

cheers!!!

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Hello @phoenix awesome tip, in the mean time I’ve managed to put it to work properly aswell, had the antenna on tx2_1 and it wasn’t transmitting anything. Thank you!

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