KiwiSDR GNURadio block

A first version of a GNURadio interface gr-kiwisdr for the KiwiSDR is available on GitHub. It consists of a GNURadio source block which connects to a given KiwiSDR and provides a stream of IQ samples.

At this moment gr-kiwisdr is not yet complete but fully working. Missing items include support for

• other modes than IQ mode (not sure if this is really useful)
• user login and non-default AGC settings
• stream tags containing GNSS timestamps

For connecting to the KiwiSDR websocket server boost.beast is used. Because the available boost versions, e.g., on Ubuntu, are fairly old and boost.beast is a recent addition to boost, gr-kiwisdr contains git submodules for boost.asio and boost.beast (both are header-only libraries).

Any feed-back is very much welcome.
As an example, the preamble cross-correlation of a STANAG 4285 signal is shown below. The two secondary cross-correlation peaks are there because the 80-symbol long STANAG 4285 preamble consists of repetitions of a 31-bit long pseudo-random sequence generated by a LFSR.

Real-time preamble cross-correlation for a STANAG4285 signal.

GRC flow-graph for the plot shown above.