Understanding the rotation of SMOG-P pocket satellite from H/V polarized IQ samples
Courtesy of HA7WEN, Levente Dudás: http://bit.ly/smogp_rotation
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RTL-SDR V3 based basic receiver station for SMOG-P and ATL-1 Nano Satellites
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[…]
Es’hail 2 / Qatar-OSCAR 100 bare LNB vs Parabolic dish reception test
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[…]
INMARSAT STD-C EGC live streaming
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[…]