Software Announcement!

The GroundStation software I've been working on for the last few months is now available from github here - below are a couple of screen shots of the realtime view of where the sats are and the pane on the right shows what frequency they are at (x-axis is frequency in MHz, y-axis is time in hours from now).

The second image show that I've select a part of the RF spectrum to capture (width determined by the fact its just a RTLSDR receiver).

When the times comes along, up pops an appropriate 'channel' which decode the signal (with real time Doppler corrections) - all by the magic of GnuRadio (and a fair amount of swearing!!). Its still pretty rough around the edges (and its very polyhedral....) but has got a fair amount of potential - so by the 10th rewrite it'll be great!

This week I also got my beagleboneblack running Debian and now happily streaming my RTLSDR dongle back to my desktop.

This looks like a very nice bit of kit, HackRF I look forward to getting mine.