First, for generalities related to the question, I'd recommend the article of Bushnell and Henniart, " Generalized Whittaker Models and the Bernstein Center," in Amer. J. of Math., Vol. 125, No. 3, Jun. 2003, pp.513-547. Starting in Section 8, you can find a nice and explicit survey and expansion on the results of Bernstein. Some of the "what do I know" facts you mention can be found in this paper of Bushnell-Henniart (see Example 8.6). ------------------------- I started to write a complete answer here and accidentally hit the "Post" button. It seems more difficult than I thought to cook up an example. I'll try to think more about it, and I'll post at a later time/date.