{"id":153,"date":"2025-07-08T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:18:52","slug":"tinygs-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/08\/tinygs-update\/","title":{"rendered":"TinyGS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I previously posted <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/20\/signals-from-space\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/20\/signals-from-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> about building a TinyGS earth station.  It&#8217;s now been running for three weeks and I am happy with the results.  I am seeing packets on a regular basis as satellites pass overhead and everything seems to be working OK!  The antenna I am using is not ideal &#8211; a wideband discone which is of course a compromise antenna across a broad spectrum of RF but it seems to do the job for now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"878\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1.png 878w, https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1-768x636.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m considering some further experiments &#8211; building a dedicated 430MHz antenna and re-locating the setup to sit on top of the mast I use for my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meshtastic<\/a> infrastructure.  This is a little delayed, updating the infrastructure on top of the mast is a big job requiring ladders, spanners, good weather and a healthy dose of free time.  At the moment my LH-O node is suffering I think from a damaged filter which needs to be replaced.  New filters were ordered from China &#8211; when they arrived they had the wrong connectors &#8211; RP-SMA rather than SMA.  More filters were ordered.  When they arrived I tested them with a VNA and saw no attenuation on any frequency between 1MHz and 1GHz so I suspect these are fakes or otherwise faulty.  The new plan is to take apart the fake filters and use the connectors on the hopefully good filters with the wrong connectors&#8230;.  watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously posted here about building a TinyGS earth station. It&#8217;s now been running for three weeks and I am happy with the results. I am seeing packets on a regular basis as satellites pass overhead and everything seems to be working OK! The antenna I am using is not ideal &#8211; a wideband discone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willwoodman.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}