Can I add a custom made demodulator for receiving a specific satellite on my station?

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Hello all,

I was wondering If I there is a way to change the demodulator in use when I my station is doing observation of a specific transmitter passing over ?

My station does not decode automatically some satelllites, however for these, I was able to input the .wav into a custom made one, on GNURadio, and decode some packets. Sometimes, the default demodulator does not decodes any packets, but the custom one is able to decode more than 100 packets.

Thanks !

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Hello,

I don’t know which version of the client you are running, and there are numerous development right now on that side but here are some answers that i can give you, and i will let other contributor more focused on this answering in a more precise way.

In short, yes you can run other applications for decoding in addition to satnogs-client/flowgraph. Lot of us also run gr_sat to handle sats that are not by satnogs-client/flowgraph.

The client let you execute pre (SATNOGS_PRE_OBSERVATION_SCRIPT in the settings) and post (SATNOGS_POST_OBSERVATION_SCRIPT in the settings) custom scripts during an observation, so you can link pretty much what you want to it.

But like i said, there are many dev ongoing on the newer version of the client, i don’t have a clear vision on it right now, other members would give you more details.

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