Posts by W5NYV

    Sure. I'm the lead for the Phase 4 Ground station project. We designed the air interface for Phase 4B. The 4B payload is still at Virginia Tech. We got a ride with Wide Field of View, a US Air Force payload. All of that is true and documented in several places.

    AMSAT-NA inexplicably became opposed to Phase 4b and Phase 4 Ground. They deliberately downplayed the project and presented it in very negative ways. So, Phase 4 Ground enthusiasts formed their own nonprofit, called Open Research Institute. We asked to be an affiliate organization of AMSAT-NA, so that the main organization could do their ITAR encumbered things without being bothered too much by the open source ground development. We unfortunately got turned down. We kept working anyway! We love the project and want to see it come about for both terrestrial and space deployments.

    The new organization got 501c3 status this past week.

    So moving forward we are working hard on finding additional launches (besides WFOV) for the P4B payload. Any payload that wants a regenerative repeater 5GHz FDMA up and 10GHz TDM down, with full DVB-S2/X and GSE and multiplexing with QoS? We are doing that. We can serve your payload.

    We hope to be able to announce a second and better launch soon. I'm not allowed to talk about the space side, but there's a lot of hard won progress here.

    If you want to follow along any of the technical progress with the air interface and ground, then our documents are at https://github.com/phase4ground

    Our sponsoring organization (and blog, and mailing list) is at https://openresearch.institute/

    If you want to join our Slack account, where the daily engineering happens, then just send me a DM and I'm happy to add you.

    We have made a lot of progress despite the ups and downs of launch promises and delays. I work full time on this and am dedicated to seeing it through.

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    Thank you this is great!

    Hi Michelle, thank you for the work you are doing. My activity is concentrated for the EME on 10 Ghz, but I do not hide that the new satellite teases me to do this hi 73 'Gennaro.

    I imagine the complexity of the LDPC code. A system born many years ago but today is finding a new starting point for DVB compliments again for your work.

    All credit goes to the team. I just support the work and make sure the right people get credit and what they need to get things done.

    We are making lots of progress and having a great time! If anyone is in the US for HamCation (Florida) then visit us in the expo. We're next to TAPR and the Amateur Radio Astronomy Group. We are hosting a forum and have plenty of fun things planned.

    Good deal with the virtualization!

    Yes, we are striving to have binaries for people to use.

    LDPC is hard but the performance is worth it. Our goal on Phase 4 Ground is to have DVB-S2/X fully open source implementations for hams to use in space and terrestrial radio systems. After a lot of work, we are starting to get there!

    We have an open source implementation of LDPC decode for DVB-S2/X for GNU Radio now. This is in addition to the GPU version from Charles Brain.


    Here is the latest LDPC soft decision work that we've supported on Phase 4 Ground. The various algorithms are described in the README.

    https://github.com/xdsopl/LDPC


    Here is the current out of tree module that implements the LDPC soft decision decoder.

    https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-dvbs2


    Next step is a version for FPGA!

    Congratulations from Phase 4 Ground! We watched from San Diego and are thrilled to see such a successful launch. We look forward to supporting P4A with open source ground station designs and active participation in the experimenter days.

    We (Phase 4 Ground) have a dual band feed design that we're 3D printing and testing for P4A that might be worth considering.

    It's a helical over a circular waveguide. I'll post more as soon as I can. We were asked about it after we published the P4B dual band feed.