I appreciate the response. Before you wrote back I wanted to try a fresh install because i wanted to confirm 100% that there were no conflicting packages outside my pybombs environment. After i deleted my main pybombs directory i tried to reinstall pybombs, uhd and gnuradio, but now gnuradio won't even install, so i'm going to have to hold off on fosphor until i can get that issue fixed.
i've reached out to the discussion board in a new thread for help with those issues.
thanks for your help so far