Anybody try one of these out?

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 2:15 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Outernet's V1 board is a derivative of the Beaglebone Black and is at the
> heart of its portable satellite data receiver, Lantern. You can find all of
> the project files associated with V1 here:
>
> https://github.com/Outernet-Project/lantern-compute-pcb
>
> The V1's purpose is to act as a DVB-S receiver when connected to an external
> Ku-band satellite dish. In this mode, content from Outernet's global
> broadcast data service is received by the DVB-S network interface module and
> stored locally. The V1 also includes an onboard wifi module, which creates a
> warmspot for interacting with the downloaded content. The following link
> details the satellites and frequencies used for Outernet's DVB-S/2 service.
>
> https://wiki.outernet.is/wiki/Coverage_and_transponder_settings
>
> For receiving content through Lantern's internal patch antenna, the V1 will
> demodulate a very narrowband channel that is transmitted over satellite
> L-band. This is a 5 kHz channel at roughly 1550 MHz, which is down coverted
> by an LNB being developed by L-Com. The signal is passed from the analog
> front end over USB and passed to the V1 for demodulation in software. Once
> the data is demodulated, decoded, and stored locally, it is accessed over
> wifi.
>
> The V1 is an open source design and we are happy to take the community's
> input into consideration for future iterations of the board.
>
>
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