Introduction In the last two posts I looked at hardware for receiving CubeSats as well as software for decoding the signals (Ref.1/2). In this post I will put this all together for real time CubeSat signal captures. Compared to receiving NOAA15/18/19, I find CubeSat reception quite difficult. First the frequency is higher so there is… Continue reading RTL-SDR for 433MHz/70cm CubeSats Signal Captures
Author: Jeremy Clark
Jeremy Clark is a Senior Telecommunications Engineer and Advanced Amateur Radio Operator VE3PKC. He is the author of E-Books on Telecommunications, Navigation & Electronics.
RTL-SDR for 433MHz/70cm CubeSats on GNURadio
Introduction In the previous post I examined receiving Amateur Radio/University CubeSats on the 433MHz/70cm band (Ref.1). In this post I look at how to decode CubeSat transmissions using the gr_satellites out of tree module on GNURadio. gr_satellites was developed by Daniel Estevez EA4GPZ. I will test several library signal captures to demonstrate how to use… Continue reading RTL-SDR for 433MHz/70cm CubeSats on GNURadio
RTL-SDR for 433MHz/70cm CubeSats
Introduction Recently I read a book about new rocket and satellite advancements by Ashlee Vance: “When the Heavens Went on Sale” (Ref.1). This got me very excited and I decided to see if I could receive current Amateur Radio or University Cube Satellites. Equipment Setup Figure 1 shows the equipment setup. I decided to copy… Continue reading RTL-SDR for 433MHz/70cm CubeSats
GNSS Spring Fix
Introduction In recent posts I have been looking at using my new GNSS receiver on various maps such as OpenStreetMap, OpenCPN and operating systems such as Windows & RaspberryPi (Ref.1/6). Since the icebergs and polar bears have left Toronto Harbour, I thought it would be fun to do a spring fix with GNSS and AIScatcher.… Continue reading GNSS Spring Fix
ICM20948 9DOF IMU on RaspberryPi4B
Introduction In the previous post I looked at using the ICM20948 9DOF IMU with Arduino Uno (Ref.1). In this post I examine the IMU with RaspberryPi4B using Python. In order to test the IMU, I am using a protoboard with on board voltage regulator (Ref.2). The ICM20948 contains two dies on a 3x3mm package: an… Continue reading ICM20948 9DOF IMU on RaspberryPi4B