Dreamcatcher hardware for a station

SatNOGS Hardware
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I noticed that Othernet (formally Outernet) are having a sale on hardware:


how feasible would this be to add fixed KU band operations to a station ?
Would it save much or improve performance any more than using an rtf and an LNB?

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I’ve tested this before, the single core processor is not enough to really run our gnuradio scripts, which is a shame because I do like the all-in-one platform. (Dreamcatcher has a single Cortex-A8, vs a raspi3 with quad core cortex-A53)

that said, I’m sure there are ways in which our decoders could be optimized for this platform… its just not going to work out of the box.

cheers!

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I ordered one a few days ago, and while there is a shipping label confirmation, it still hasn’t shipped. I’ve heard that a previous hardware release by then Outernet left a bunch of people out money with no hardware in hand - I hope that’s not the case with this release.

–Roy
K3RLD

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I wonder if you could stream the Samples into the GNU Radio scripts running in a better platform?

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Sure, but why add the complexity? The only benefit here would be saving $11 off the cost of a raspi3 + rtlsdr.

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