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What are the technical and geographical requirements to do two-way communitcation with low-orbiting satelites? A directional antenna, an SDR-card and a decent a
by AnnoyingSwede 9y ago
What are the technical and geographical requirements to do two-way communitcation with low-orbiting satelites? A directional antenna, an SDR-card and a decent amplifier i assume, but what about geography? Would i be able to pull this off in a European capital with surrounding electromagnetic/radio-wave pollution one can expect in a capital?
- fyfy18 9y agoTo transmit you’d also need an amateur radio license, although the requirements usually aren’t that difficult.
- brians 9y agoYes, absolutely. The trick is to use a very directional antenna—it listens to what you point it at and blocks out noise from the sides. The canonical tool for this is a handheld Yagi, either home made for a few dollars in tubing and screws or ordered from Arrow Antenna. What replaces the expensive satellite tracking system? A top notch neural network with high endurance myelin-actuated 6-dof arm. You.
- UncleEntity 9y agoEvery so often I wonder what kind of shenanigans I could get up to with the "complementary" satTV dish that came with my apartment if I rigged up some sort of tracking system and messed with the feed head for different frequencies. Those things are everywhere, a real untapped resource.