I am so excited that I got to work on my shielding testing ideas a
   little bit more!
   The gnuradio qt block "time raster" is really inspiring.  Given a
   packetlength it aligns the data along that length, so it can be used
   for visualising unknown packet signals like clocked refresh emissions.
   I dunno where I'm supposed to learn that but I didn't know about this
   block for years and years.
   Of course I am using it for developing "noiscillate" which is my
   personal project for measuring shielding effectiveness without a high
   quality radio.
   Long ago, before schizophrenia, I could complete something like this
   within a few weeks, so it is very confusing to me for it be taking
   years and years, and I'm not sure that I'm making the right decisions
   around it.
   One high quality radio my father gave me long ago I don't know where
   is, the other one is a N210 I got to test the new wideband scanning
   research people were linking back and forth a bit ago.  Unfortunately I
   don't have a daughterboard for my N210 yet, and it doesn't look like
   something I should try to figure out how to afford until next month.
   Still, it's cool you can purchase the radio in parts like that.
   It seems ridiculous to me, as a lifelong hobby algorithm researcher, to
   require an expensive radio with an fpga, to implement a sample
   algorithm, when computers have massive gpus nowadays and common math
   libraries to use them.  I'm sad the researchers implemented their
   algorithm on an fpga, making it harder for people to use.  But I
   imagine it is how they were trained, from before using gpus for math
   was common.  Probably makes it much easier to work with massively high
   sample rates, which the N210 nicely provides.
   I'm currently rebuilding gnuradio.  Somehow my "debug" build folder got
   reconfigured for "release" before I last installed it.  I'm now getting
   a crash in the library whenever I run some graph containing a receiver
   block, and there are no symbols to debug it with.
   The form of noiscillate is simple and I've mentioned it before on the
   list, but it's very hard for me to physically reach my work and
   cognitively go through the motions of continuing it.  I appreciate the
   stability offered by gnuradio blocks, where if I clean my block up
   enough I could share it with the gnuradio tree, giving future people
   something to stumble upon if I fail to continue my small work.