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Re:Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software d... by jcims on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:48PM (#23471811)
Not the person you asked but once gnuradio flowgraphs started to function materially outside of basic flowgraph blocks stitched together, or worse, wrapped by some python script, I would have to tap out.

It's one thing to demodulate some manchester encoded OOK/FSK signal from some ISM-band hardware monitor vs. 64-QAM or GMSK. At some point it, to me, becomes indistinguishable from magic. Fluency in DSP is, IMHO, mandatory to be broadly effective with GNU Radio.

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Re:Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software d... by timeinput on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:18PM (#23472841)
I'm fairly fluent in both DSP and software, and find GNU radio indecipherable.

A plain C/C++ implementation is often so much clearer than a flow graph built in python.

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Re:Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software d... by jcims on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:56PM (#23473073)
Copy that. By far the most informative bit of dsp code for me was the core libraries in SDRSharp.
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