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Decoding AMICal Sat in-orbit images
Back in March, I was helping Julien Nicolas F4HVX to test the S-band image transmitter of AMICal Sat before launch. In my post back then, I explained that AMICal Sat uses a Nordic Semiconductor...
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Decoding the NEXUS π/4-DQPSK signal
NEXUS, also called FO-99, is a Japanese Amateur satellite built by Nihon University and JAMSAT. It was launched on January 2019, and one of its interesting features is a π/4-DQPSK high-speed...
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Decoding IDEASSat
One of the interesting Amateur cubesats in yesterday’s SpaceX Transporter-1 launch from Cape Canaveral is IDEASSat, a 3U cubesat from the National Central University of the Republic of China (Taiwan)...
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32APSK narrowband modem for QO-100
Some time ago I did a few experiments about pushing 2kbaud 8PSK and differential 8PSK through the QO-100 NB transponder. I didn’t develop these experiments further into a complete modem, but in part...
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LDPC code design for my QO-100 narrowband modem
A couple months ago I presented my work-in-progress design for a data modem intended to be used through the QO-100 NB transponder. The main design goal for this modem is to give the maximum data rate...
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Decoding the QO-100 multimedia beacon with GNU Radio
Last weekend, AMSAT-DL started some test transmissions of a high-speed multimedia beacon through the QO-100 NB transponder. The beacon uses the high-speed modem by Kurt Moraw DJ0ABR. It is called...
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Decoding the QO-100 multimedia beacon with GNU Radio: part II
In my previous post I showed a GNU Radio demodulator for the QO-100 multimedia beacon, which AMSAT-DL has recently started to broadcast through the QO-100 NB transponder, using a downlink frequency of...
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An erasure FEC for SSDV
SSDV is an amateur radio protocol that is used to transmit images in packets, in a way that is tolerant to packet loss. It is based on JPEG, but unlike a regular JPEG file, where losing even a small...
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Back in May I proposed an erasure FEC scheme for SSDV. The SSDV protocol is used in amateur radio to transmit JPEG files split in packets, in such a way that losing some packets only cases the loss of...
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Testing gr4-packet-modem through a GEO transponder
During the last few months, I have been working on gr4-packet-modem. This is a packet-based QPSK modem that I’m writing from scratch using the GNU Radio 4.0 runtime. The gr4-packet-modem project is...
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