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Looking ahead, might be nice to have an open-source ground station that could be made from available circuitry, a downloadable instructable (think pdf) and hobb

Looking ahead, might be nice to have an open-source ground station that could be made from available circuitry, a downloadable instructable (think pdf) and hobbyist level electric skills. This experience might encourage Starlink engineers to build in some public-safety/emergency service protocols. Some folks are looking at the receiving end with software radio: https://hackaday.com/2021/11/26/analyzing-starlink-satellite-downlink-communications-with-software-defined-radio/ https://hackaday.com/2021/11/26/analyzing-starlink-satellite... Could help in lots of places!

BenjiWiebe 5y ago
That's going to be pretty complex, and either it'll need to be a very very advanced hobbyist, or else it will have to feature prebuilt stuff that you just plug together. A high-bandwidth low-latency ground station that can talk to multiple satellites at once is not going to be easy.
- pmayrgundter 5y ago
  Came across this reading back comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515418