Talking to the world one station at a time
Following on from my article about my QO-100 Satellite Ground Station Complete Build, this article goes into some detail on the Node-RED section of the build and how I put together my QO-100 Satellite Ground Station Dashboard web app. The Node-RED project has grown organically as I used the QO-100 satellite over time. Initially this …
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I get quite a few emails from readers of my blog asking how my QO-100 satellite station is put together and so, I thought perhaps now is a good time to put together an article detailing the complete build. My QO-100 satellite ground station is built around my little Icom IC-705 QRP transceiver, it’s a …
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Over the long bank holiday weekend I started putting together my QO-100 ground station. To start with I’ve concentrated solely on the receive path. I’ll start the transmit path once I have the receive path operational at a satisfactory level. A few weeks ago I purchased a 1.1m off-set dish antenna and a Bullseye LNB. …
Ever since my QO-100 ground station has been operational I’ve been using my NodeRed QO-100 Dashboard to control my IC-705 and GQRX SDR software to drive my NooElec SmartSDR receiver. This gives me a full duplex ground station with both transmit and receive VFO’s synchronised. This solution has worked incredibly well from the outset and …
I’ve been on the QO-100 satellite for about 7 months now and I have to admit I love it! Having a “Repeater In The Sky” that covers a third of the world really is a wonderful facility to have access to however, there is one thing that I find tiring and that is the high …
I’ve been active on QO-100 for a few days now and I have to admit that I’m really pleased with the way the ground station is performing. I’m getting a good strong, quality signal into the satellite along with excellent audio reports from my Icom IC-705 and the standard fist mic. I’m very pleased with …
The male to male SMA connector that Neil, G7UFO kindly posted to me arrived late this afternoon and I wasted no time getting it connected between the 2.4Ghz up-converter and the 12w amplifier. Initially when I powered up the 12v to 28v converter board the output voltage was only showing 22v and so I had …
I’ve been waiting for over a week so far for a male to male SMA connector to arrive from Amazon so that I can connect the 2.4Ghz up-converter to the 2.4Ghz amplifier. Since it still hasn’t arrived I decided to connect the up-converter directly to the IceCone Helix antenna to see if I could get …
I’ve been making a few improvements to my QO-100 Node Red Dashboard whilst waiting for the 2.4Ghz hardware to arrive. I’ve added the ability to split the RX and TX VFOs so that I can tune away from the TX frequency for working split stations or for tuning to slightly off frequency stations. I also …
After much reading and viewing of youtube videos I have finally settled on the parts that I want to use to build my QO-100 Satellite ground station. Initially I’m only going to build the receive path of the QO-100 station. From the articles and blogs I’ve read online all the experienced Amateur Radio satellite Op’s …