Various tools for transmission and reception on the QO-100 satellite amateur transponder bands. Includes everything I need (hopefully) to build a fully remote managed RF frontend to be placed on the roof, near the antenna while only bringing a few cables between it and the shack: power, two coax cables (TX IF and RX IF) and one UTP ethernet cable.
- Upconverter - Converts the VHF/UHF IF signal to the uplink frequency of the satellite (2.4 GHz)
- PA - Boosts the output power to 20 W (v1) and 250 W (v2) maximum
- PA Driver - Amplifier to drive the main 250W PA
- Directional Couplers - Experimental, manually constructed with simple scalpel cut traces on some Rogers RO4350B substrate
- GPSDO - GPS Disciplined Oscillator to generate different precise reference frequencies
- LNB Controller - LNB Bias and reference injection controller
- Digital Power Meter - Module to measure DC power, used to calculate the PA efficiency
- Digital RF Power Meter - Module to measure RF power, used to calculate the PA efficiency
- Generic Filter - Footprints to build up to 11th order Butterworth/Chebyshev filters
- Orange Pi Dock - Main board to house an OPi that will be the main brain of the system
- Relay Controller - Module to provide relay coil switching capabilities
- RF Switch - Implements a 5PST or 4PST RF switch for routing purposes
- PSU Interface - Interface board for HP Common Slot Power supplies
- SAW Filter adapter - Footprints for various SAW filter packages
- PA Bias controller - Bias generator and monitor for the Power Amplifiers
- PA TEC controller - Peltier cooler controller for the big PA
- I2C Buffer - I2C bus signal buffer
- Environment sensors - Sensor carrier board
- LoRa Transceiver - SX1276 breakout for LoRa experiments
- icyradio - IcyRadio Software Defined Radio to transmit and receive IF signals to the roof RF frontend
- icestorm - FPGA toolchain
- arm-none-eabi-gcc - MCUs toolchain
- Device CMSIS - CMSIS headers defining the MCU memories, peripherals, etc...
- Core CMSIS - CMSIS headers defining the ARM Cores
- armmem - ELF file analyzer (required for the MCU Makefiles to work)
- João Silva - vankxr
- JLCPCB for sponsoring most of the PCBs needed for this project.
- raplin for the work on reverse engineering the HP power supplies
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