Author: Zoltan

RTL-SDR V3 based basic receiver station for SMOG-P and ATL-1 Nano Satellites

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SMOG-P is currently the world’s smallest _operating_ satellite as far as I know. These wonderful tiny pocket satellites are designed in Hungary by the professors and students of Budapest University of Technology and Economics: “Apart from the units ensuring its basic operations, the payload of SMOG-P is a spectrum analyzer, measuring man-made electromagnetic pollution in Read more about RTL-SDR V3 based basic receiver station for SMOG-P and ATL-1 Nano Satellites[…]

Modifying EDUP EP-AB007 4W bi-directional Wifi amplifier for OA-100 Es’hail satellite operation, non-stop TX mode

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4 and 8 Watt WiFi bi-directional amplifiers are designed for about 10-20 dBm input power. They listening in their input for a relatively strong signal to decide whether turn over to TX state from RX state (and changing over RF switches). Doing this simply rectifying the inrush RF power and leading that into an amplifier Read more about Modifying EDUP EP-AB007 4W bi-directional Wifi amplifier for OA-100 Es’hail satellite operation, non-stop TX mode[…]

Celebrating successful Es’hail 2 / QO-100 GEO HAM satellite WSPR transmission using only 4 milliwatts

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Setup:– WSPR transmitter: QRP Labs U3S kit at 2m mode WSPR, using GPS calibration (later might trying OCXO option)– 2m BPF– Morfeus converter – a Minicircuits ZX60-43-S+ RF amplifier block (single stage) – 2.4 GHz BPF– 5 turn LHCP helical and 1m parabolic dish– Virtual Audio Cable SW tool for routing web sdr audio to Read more about Celebrating successful Es’hail 2 / QO-100 GEO HAM satellite WSPR transmission using only 4 milliwatts[…]

Es’hail 2 / Qatar-OSCAR 100 bare LNB vs Parabolic dish reception test

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Have seen an example of “bare LNB” reception of QO-100 GEO ham satellite from Andreas Preuss, DL5APR. That was quite shocking… So tried to reproduce that experiment using my own receiver setup. Looks like its works fine for stronger signals! I can imagine adding some tricks to the LNB’s horn antenna to improve it’s gain Read more about Es’hail 2 / Qatar-OSCAR 100 bare LNB vs Parabolic dish reception test[…]

Es’hail-2 narrow band transponder live streaming

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The new GEO stationary ham satellite transponder is it’s in final phase of testing. Now the narrow band channel is actively tested with noise. Some strange CW transmissions occurs too which is not clear if part of the testing or pirate events, from the Amsat-DL forum: https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/81-es2hail-beacon-is-alive/&postID=1148#post1148 Here is the recorded CW transmission: Here is Read more about Es’hail-2 narrow band transponder live streaming[…]

INMARSAT STD-C EGC live streaming

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You will find more details for decoding in this article:  This is an educational purpose audio stream. You can use this audio stream to experiment with narrow band satellite reception without physical ground station (SDR, LNA and antenna hardware) having fun and learning SDR technologies without experience (and investment) in RF Hardware. Simply open in Read more about INMARSAT STD-C EGC live streaming[…]

RPITX V2 measurement plots

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Hi, As may many of you seen on RTL-SDR blog the RPITX V2 is out there We made several measurements booth on 434 MHz and 144 MHz and looks like the first still has difficulties while the second (144 MHz) is exceptionally clean, even with PA (1W) and almost no filtering. 434 MHz strange spuriouses Read more about RPITX V2 measurement plots[…]