I should have included a few snips of our progress that is accessible for
you,
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/GOES11_LRIT-20100107-samle1.png
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/Screenshot-rx-hrpt.png
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/gr-poes-weather-apps-FY1-gui%20-%20GNU%20Radio%20Companion.png
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/helix.jpg
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/1.7GHz/GOES-HRPT-antennas.jpg
Patrik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrik Tast" <patrik@poes-weather.com>
To: <Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
Cc: "Jerry" <jerrymartes@verizon.net>; "Martin Blaho"
<martan.blaho@seznam.cz>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 15:06
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing
tocopyCircuit into PCB
> To Mr Moller & all the starving students,
>
>> It's not much for the tax-payer or commercial clients. But it's a lot for
>> a hobbyist.
>> Why can't there be a open-source community version of a
>> Gnuradio-Hardware,
>> about $200 for the material, do-it-yourself assembling, some performance
>> tradeoffs (no expensive MIMO connector, cheap FPGA variant) etc. ?
>> This is a RX-only SDR with all relevant design files
>> (Schematics, PCB, Gerber), BOM about $200 :
>> http://sdrtrack.drupalcafe.com/?q=node/2
>
> Evidently Moller's soldering iron is glowing at the moment so we'll soon
> see his $200 SDR
> sold for the (poor) HAMs and students as a kit in hundreds of pieces....
>
> To those poor students (and Mr Moller):
> A few month ago Mr Jamie Morken donated his USRP1 to Jerry Martes for
> investigating GOES LRIT/HRIT/EMWIN and POES-HRPT signals
> inhope to add more RX examples to gnuradio. It was I (Patrik Tast, FI) who
> encouraged Jerry to poke Jamie when he announced an USRP is available.
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/203836
>
> When we noted that J "won" the USRP1 I suggested immediately it should be
> available for everybody, all seriously should be able to connect to it and
> rip GOES/POES data
> from it for their theseis and gnuradio developement in general.
>
> We have made a VNC connection to his USRP, I have not only once announced
> in this email list that it is available for students <74.100.85.18:1>
> As we have seen, none seem to be interested to connect to it and receive
> GOES live signals for $0...Please do try to setup your own dish and point
> it at GOES and calculate the time & cost it will take you.
> All is given for free here, but no interest what so ever....
>
> At the moment we are a 3 man team:
> - Jerry Martes @ LA, CA, US: Antenna operator and USRP administrator
> - Martin Blaho @ Czech Republic: GR Signal processing programmer
> - Patrik Tast @ Finland: GR Signal processing programmer and imager
> programmer
>
> As soon as we're done with POES-HRPT & GOES the (Jamie Morken) USRP will
> be shipped to the next station
>
> Those who are serious can connect to it using VNC just send me an email
> and you'll get the logins.
>
> Patrik (who wonder if extreme USRP usage can be more cheap if you work
> togeather....)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moeller" <Moeller23@gmx.de>
> To: <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:59
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to
> copyCircuit into PCB
>
>
>> On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote:
>>> matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim
>>> proprietorship on a product which was develop as open sourced
>>> hardware project. many of people have contributed to it on Mr. Ettus
>> The copyright is at Ettus. EDA-files are not distributed.
>> So it's a commercial version, not a community version. At least for the
>> hardware.
>> Only the firmware is open-source (using also opensource components
>> like ethernet implementation).
>>
>>> I alone Estimated its costing on DIGI key and other sites for parts
>>> and PCB sourcing and all
>>> it not exceeding $200 and he is www.ettus.com claiming $150 for
>>> handling n shipping alone.
>>> so outside US it would be around $1000. my apologies if i used harsh
>>> words.
>>
>> It's not much for the tax-payer or commercial clients. But it's a lot for
>> a hobbyist.
>> Why can't there be a open-source community version of a
>> Gnuradio-Hardware,
>> about $200 for the material, do-it-yourself assembling, some performance
>> tradeoffs (no expensive MIMO connector, cheap FPGA variant) etc. ?
>>
>> This is a RX-only SDR with all relevant design files
>> (Schematics, PCB, Gerber), BOM about $200 :
>> http://sdrtrack.drupalcafe.com/?q=node/2
>>
>> Maybe somebody wants to donate a design to the GNU community?
>> It won't by a one-way street. I guess the community will continue to
>> improve
>> the design after an initial start. Also GNU itself didn't start from
>> zero, but
>> used lots of Unix developments to create a free alternative.
>>
>>
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