Hey guys, this might be the wrong forum to post this question, but here goes.
I’m using a LimeSDR with QSpectrumAnalyzer, which is using soapy_power and I’m trying to set the gains of the LNA, TIA and PGA. This is done in the additional parameters box, which currently looks as follows:
soapy_power: error: argument -G/–specific-gains: not allowed with argument -g/–gain
That’s telling me that I’m setting the gain elsewhere, which is probably QSpectrumAnalyzer doing it, but I’m not sure how to turn that off.
Any help would be appreciated.
One more thing, while I have you. I’m connecting the Lime straight to a dipole inside a cylindrical waveguide, no external LNA (yet). What are sort of gains would you recommend for detecting the Hydrogen line (or at the very least, noticing a drop in radiation as the sun sets)?
It’s coded into qspecreumanalyzer/qspectrumanalyzer/backends/soapy_power.py.
It starts out as “-1” and looks like you don’t get a command line extension unless it is >=0. It seems as if by default it should not have the -g on the command line.
I don’t have the code in front of me but there are two lines that are like ‘if gain >=0 then extend command line with -g …’ that may be commented out and then try the -G option.
I would suggest first to open an issue on Github because the writer of the code knows it best.
Lines 27 and 28 set up the min and max for gain.
Line 53 initializes gain to -1.
Line 65 sets “gain” to gain. This may be where it gets a value other than -1. From the init.py file?
Lines 111 and 112 apply a -g option to the command line if the value is not negative.
You can just throw a # in front of lines 111 and 112, then rebuild and try. Or comment line 65. Or comment out that “gain = 37” at line 18 in the init file and retry. I think the third option would work best.
