{"id":323,"date":"2015-02-11T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:34:20","slug":"successful-communication-via-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/02\/11\/successful-communication-via-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful communication test with SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the <a title=\"Telecommunications\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/cubesat\/telecommunications\/\">communications<\/a> team successfully tested the breadboarded communications subsystem using a software defined radio (SDR).<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0SDR is a simple USB dongle that anyone can plug into a computer and tune to listen to the radio, or alternatively tune to the amateur radio frequencies (145 MHz and 433 MHz) to detect satellites using that band for communications. \u00a0This weeks test successfully used an SDR to listening to a simple broadcast from the breadboarded communications subsystem. \u00a0While still at early stages in development this offers reassurance that amateurs around the world should be able to listen to UoS<sup>3<\/sup> from their homes with relative ease.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-image-324 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life-1024x537.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the first signs of life from the SDR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life-900x472.jpg 900w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the first signs of life from the SDR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the communications team successfully tested the breadboarded communications subsystem using a software defined radio (SDR). An\u00a0SDR is a simple USB dongle that anyone can plug into a computer and tune to listen to the radio, or alternatively tune to the amateur radio frequencies (145 MHz and 433 MHz) to detect satellites using that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progress-update","category-project","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/sdr-first-signs-of-life.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}