Software for the QO-100 groundstation of EA4GPZ
This repository contains software that I use in my QO-100 (Eshail-2) groundstation. The groundstation constists of a BeagleBone Black driving a LimeSDR mini which is connected to a Ku-band LNB for the downlink and a large 2.4GHz PA for the uplink. More information about the groundstation can be seen here.
My main software solution for the narrowband transponder uses an external computer running Linrad for RX and GNU Radio for TX. See this blog post for more information.
To run this software you must:
- Start the Linrad Python server
linrad_server.py - Start the socat server that will listen to GNU Radio using
start_gnuradio_socat - Start the LimeSDR streamer using
start_eshail_limesdr
In another PC you can use eshail_300k.grc to stream TX samples using GNU Radio
and Linrad using the network protocol (16bit RAW samples IP 239.255.0.0) to
receive the downlink.