After doing a number of satellite and radio astronomy experiments, I finally got tired of my old briefcase full of tangled radio gear. I dug through my collection of broken computers, old wires, spare parts, and other junk, and assembled an allinone space cyberdeck!

This system combines most of my satellite and softwaredefinedradio gear into one portable platform. The hardware includes:

Touchscreen computer
RTLSDR radio
Various filter / amp modules
Various WiFi modules
Satellite Meter / digital video player
PTZ control for my older dish pointers
LNB power injector
KingDome / Vuqube control
Panelmount port interfaces

Software includes:
Q4OS (simple, lowresource Linux)
GQRX (standard SDR software)
Gpredict for satellite tracking
GOEStools, WXtoIMG, etc for weather satellites

The system is fairly modular and expandable, with most major components simply stuck in with velcro tape. If I want to swap modules for a different experiment, I can just pop them out and replace with something else.

Some of the parts I used include:
Datalux Tracer computer (found for $1.00 at a police auction).
RTLSDR Blog v3 (https://www.amazon.com/RTLSDRBlogR...)
Wideband LNA (https://www.amazon.com/RTLSDRBlogW...)
Talentcell 12v 6Ah battery pack (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ME3ZH7C)
Snpurdiri 60% keyboard (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097T276QL)
AC600 Wifi adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z31W68W)
GTMedia v8 Satellite Meter (https://www.amazon.com/GTMEDIASatel...)
Old Dell PCMCIA wifi card
Old Broadcom MiniPCI wifi card
KingDome remote
(None of these were sponsored products and I bought all of this myself)

I'm planning to do a variety of projects and experiments with this system and my various 2ndhand satellite antennas in the future. Stay tuned to see what I come up with!

*Please note that my use of the term "hacking" refers to using hardware and software for unintended or experimental purposes, not anything unauthorized! I am not breaking, pirating, or transmitting anything. I'm simply poking around at old satellite hardware to see what can be freely and legally done with it!

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