Hi Tim,
If you need help with gnuradio, the gnuradio mailing list is probably
a better place to ask. For the gqrx end I can tell you that the sample
format is 1 channel, signed 16 bit integer, little endian. It is what
corresponds to "short" in the gnuradio companion (assuming that that
is what you use).
So, set the UDP source to deliver "shorts" and convert it to float,
see the attached flow graph.
Alex