Difference between revisions of "Es'hail-2 Ground Station"
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The Es'hail-2 spectrum monitor has been installed at Goonhilly Earth Station, but is awaiting completion of the network connection before the installation is operational. | The Es'hail-2 spectrum monitor has been installed at Goonhilly Earth Station, but is awaiting completion of the network connection before the installation is operational. | ||
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'''https://eshail.batc.org.uk/''' | '''https://eshail.batc.org.uk/''' | ||
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Ports open: SSH, HTTP, HTTPS<br /> | Ports open: SSH, HTTP, HTTPS<br /> | ||
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| + | The equipment has been placed on a bench in our allocated room (with AMSAT-UK's funcube receiver). | ||
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Revision as of 18:41, 3 September 2018
The Es'hail-2 spectrum monitor has been installed at Goonhilly Earth Station, but is awaiting completion of the network connection before the installation is operational.
The dish has been pointed at 26 degrees East (the planned Es'hail-2 location - NOT 25.5 as stated on our website) and tested by receiving signals from BADR-4.
RF
The hardware consists of a 1.3 Metre dish with a dual LNB. The separate horizontal and vertical feeds go to 2 Airspys which are connected to a Linux server.
The indoor LNB Power Unit has been constructed:
The GPS reference is a Leo Bodnar unit programmed to produced 10 MHz (for the Airspys) and 25 MHz (for the LNB, but not implemented yet). The settings for the reference to produce these 2 frequencies were not straightforward (as the 2 outputs on the Leo Bodnar unit need to be linked) but are here for reference:
Server
Hardware
i7-2600 CPU
16GB DDR3 RAM
Supermicro Workstation Motherboard
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
750W Corsair TX Power Supply
Software
Ubuntu Server 18.04
Nginx mainline
airspy_tcp fork (source)
narrowband WebSDR by PA3FWM (homepage)
wideband spectrum monitor (source coming soon)
Network
Ports open: SSH, HTTP, HTTPS
Installation
The equipment has been placed on a bench in our allocated room (with AMSAT-UK's funcube receiver).
