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This is the main utility you might need to set up your own ground station. If you need software for an automated satellite ground station, you are in the right place.
Education, commercial satellite reception, or just for having fun with satellites.
No. Once you configure it, the core is fully autonomous. If the internet connection drops, the ground station will operate.
The satellites that are operating in FM, BPSK, or FSK (GMSK, GFSK, AFSK) modulations. Overall, potentially more than 250+ satellites are supported thanks to the gr-satellites library.
All common controllers are supported. The list is below:
Rot # Mfg Model Version Status Macro
1 Hamlib Dummy 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_DUMMY
2 Hamlib NET rotctl 20200528.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_NETROTCTL
201 Hamlib EasycommI 20191206.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_EASYCOMM1
202 Hamlib EasycommII 20191206.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_EASYCOMM2
204 Hamlib EasycommIII 20201203.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_EASYCOMM3
301 XQ2FOD Fodtrack 20200107.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_FODTRACK
401 Idiom Press Rotor-EZ 20100214.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_ROTOREZ
402 Idiom Press RotorCard 20100214.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_ROTORCARD
403 Hy-Gain DCU-1/DCU-1X 20100823.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_DCU
404 DF9GR ERC 20100823.2 Alpha ROT_MODEL_ERC
405 Green Heron RT-21 20140914.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_RT21
501 SARtek SARtek-1 20061007.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_SARTEK1
601 Yaesu GS-232A 20201203.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_GS232A
602 Various GS-232 Generic 20200424.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_GS232_GENERIC
603 Yaesu GS-232B 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_GS232B
604 F1TE GS232/F1TE Tracker 20200424.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_F1TETRACKER
605 Yaesu/Kenpro GS-23 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_GS23
606 Yaesu/Kenpro GS-232 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_GS232
607 AMSAT LVB Tracker 20200424.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_LVB
608 FoxDelta GS232/ST2 20200424.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_ST2
609 Yaesu GS-232A azimuth 20201203.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_GS232A_AZ
610 Yaesu GS-232A elevation 20201203.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_GS232A_EL
611 Yaesu GS-232B azimuth 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_GS232B_AZ
612 Yaesu GS-232B elevation 20201203.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_GS232B_EL
701 WA6UFQ PcRotor 20081013.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_PCROTOR
801 Heathkit HD 1780 Intellirotor 20200112.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_HD1780
901 SPID Rot2Prog 20191208.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_SPID_ROT2PROG
902 SPID Rot1Prog 20191208.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_SPID_ROT1PROG
903 SPID MD-01/02 (ROT2 mode) 20191208.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_SPID_MD01_ROT2PROG
1001 M2 RC2800 20201130 Beta ROT_MODEL_RC2800
1002 M2 RC2800_EARLY_AZ 20201130 Stable ROT_MODEL_RC2800_EARLY_AZ
1003 M2 RC2800_EARLY_AZEL 20201130 Stable ROT_MODEL_RC2800_EARLY_AZEL
1101 EA4TX ARS RCI AZ&EL 20200112.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_RCI_AZEL
1102 EA4TX ARS RCI AZ 20200112.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_RCI_AZ
1201 AMSAT IF-100 20110531.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_IF100
1301 LA7LKA ts7400 20200113.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_TS7400
1401 Celestron NexStar 20110821.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_NEXSTAR
1501 DG9OAA Ether6 (via ethernet) 20201203.0 Beta ROT_MODEL_ETHER6
1601 CNCTRK CNCTRK 20191220.0 Untested ROT_MODEL_CNCTRK
1701 Prosistel D azimuth 20201215.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_PROSISTEL_D_AZ
1702 Prosistel D elevation 20201215.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_PROSISTEL_D_EL
1703 Prosistel Combi-Track az+el 20201215.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_PROSISTEL_COMBI_TRACK
1801 Meade LX200/Autostar 20200610.0 Stable ROT_MODEL_MEADE
1901 iOptron iOptron 20191209.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_IOPTRON
2101 SatEL SatEL 20210123.0 Alpha ROT_MODEL_SATEL
The project supports all common software-defined radios (SDR), including HackRF One or RTL-SDR.
Just because initially the author had antenna rotators, right now fixed antennas are not supported, but hopefully, this feature will be added soon.
Yes. This was done recently with one of the pioneering companies in the GSaaS domain, Leanspace SAS, which endorsed the creation of the GNU Radio flowgraph for the solution. Refer to the 'Architecture' chapter of this wiki to find more information.
According to your purposes, you can modify the GNU Radio flowgraph to change digital signal processing. You can also replace controllers/SDR, and change the topology of the system. For example, you may have antenna rotators managed by one PC (f.e., Raspberry PI), and have your GSC server on the other machine. Of course, you can combine them.
Your hardware antenna rotator must be compatible with one within the list above. Also, uplink traffic is not handled at the moment and its support will be added soon. Geostationary satellites are not supported as they can't be scheduled. The bandwidth and sampling rate are constrained by your SDR.
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