Detecting Starlink Satellites With DIY Tricorder 

this is the coolest fucking channel i’ve ever seen. hand made computers, linux, messing with satellites for fun. truly a gem

The best projects literally catch fire, just look at Steve Wozniak's first computer

We like this! Blogging about it tomorrow 👍

When he fires up all his equipment the entire block suffers a space time divistion by 5 minutes. Local authorities are perplexed and naively call it a “anomoly”.

Makes you realise just how futuristic actual Tricorders in the show are.

The pride of Funter Bay! I lived there 83-89, knew your folks.. cool projects!

dude i love your energy man, keep it up!

FYI there’s a bunch of different versions of the rtl sdr that have different frequency sensitivities. That might be why the laptop version didn’t work.

You are Brilliant! Wish I had someone like you near me …love to learn! And have the junk as I have seen here.

Practical, fortunately, does not matter when it is interesting and fun. Friends and family are amazed when I tell them you can see starlink satellites. Usually they say they are planes. Until I spot a train of them and point them out in the sky. Not a lot of room to argue left after that. Pretty sweet idea with that SDR. I might have to give this a try during the next camping satellite watch. Thanks!

Bro you are killing it btw just fround this channel. Doing great!

I'm loving this channel. Thanks man!

I realize this is an older video, but I was doing some searching and came across one of your videos. Obviously, I clicked... I have a complete Starlink setup for Christmas. I'm going to put it out in the spring.

from my experience, I would recommend a DTV or DISH power injector. Better quality and more stable power in my opinion

Literally one of my favorite dudes on the internet! Love your projects and ideas. I miss being able to do neat projects, work keeps my leash too tight :-(

I know that this is an old video, but the big issue is that DirecTV (the LNB) that you were using is powered from either 13 or 18V depending if you want left or right circulation selected. They output in two 500Mhz blocks, A-band (1650-2150 MHz) and B-band (250-750 MHz) from the KU band signal in the 101 sats.

You are extraordinary young man! I love your energy. Stay curious.

This is way too cool. Thanks for sharing..

Hello author. Reminded me of my childhood. In 2007, not everyone had the Internet and we were engaged in "satellite fishing", intercepting Internet traffic on our dishes and recording the incoming content on the HDD. Sometimes they intercepted photographs of parts of the planet with weather satellites .... It was educational for us teenagers. Приветствую автор. Напомнил мне моё детство. В 2007 у нас не у каждого был интернет и мы занимались "спутниковой рыбалкой", перехватывали интернет трафик на свои тарелки и записывали на HDD поступающий контент. Иногда перехватывали фотографии участков планеты с метеоспутников... . Было познавательно для нас подростков.

Ax-Man!!! You must live in the Twin Cities - I remember going there as a kid and being absolutely amazed at the mysterious and wonderful widgets the place was just packed with. I really dig your “pi-corder” setup. “This whole garage of stuff duct taped to other stuff” 😂 My kind of garage! I live in the SF Bay Area in California these days, but I visit my family back home in the Twin Cities pretty often. Hope someday I run into you at a geeky meetup somewhere!

I'd like to point out that you can also simply connect your RTL-SDR to an Android phone via USB, and run SDR software apps on the phone.

These satellite projects are really neat! Great vid :)

The reason why you received nothing on your laptop probably is the huge cable loss in the (compared to the handheld) quite long (and seemingly low quality) cable. Cable loss is quite significant at the very high frequencies in use. Try to connect the sdr-stick with a shorter and lower-loss cable. You can also try to minimise interference by battery-powering the laptop.

COOL! If there is ever a small-medium nuclear war? I hope we are neighbors. And on great terms. ☮

That batch of diagonal satellite traces creeped me out. There used to be a vintage video game called, if I recall correctly, Strategic Air Command. When you failed at shooting down all the incoming missiles the final screen you saw looked like that just before you got Nuked.

Anakin Skywalker on a Monday. By the end of the week we have Death Star CAD model.

I would like recommend to test with UV-K5(8) transceiver from QUANSHENG. We could enjoy communication with ISS.

great video!

You doing great work please sir

you could use a pd/qc powerbank and trigger 12v form it

still very cool.

Well done. 😀😀😀

That's wonderful. I didn't know Starlink satellites had a KU-band beacon.

Awesome

Nice information sir ji ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I don't know what the hell you're talking about but it's pretty cool.

Love these videos. Keep up the great work. Sean, KN6PFG.

Amazing project, congrats

95c? Man I gotta go to Ax-.Man 😂

Hmm, Good idea. always looking for more things to plug into the RTL-SDR, pretty sure I have a few LNB's in the shed. would be interesting to have a few different gains (say one bare, as a basic dipole, then one with say a small yagi, and then the normal setup with a dish). could make finding some more obscure sats a bit easier? Also, I've got one of those Dell Vostro laptops I literally saved for parts. found it at the tip, sans battery, hdd, n RAM, but seemed in good condition. slapped in some random ram sticks and an old SSD, hasnt skipped a beat in years. from memory the best uptime I have seen on it was 104 days, and that was only cos I had to physically move it. good machine, right price. I also found a Saitek force feedback joystick that day, I was going to gank the actuators, but that worked once I fed it enough power and got the drivers. and is so much fun it managed to escape the parts bin affectionally known as my shed. Its about 38c outside right now, so I think I'll leave tinkering in the shed and try breaking parts off my mosquito by doing silly things. IL-2 is a great game.

Love it thanks😎😎😎😎

nice

neat

Ax-Man.. I love that store. You must be in Mn. I'm down in Faribault. Cheers neighbor. Meetup if you're ever in town. I found your videos from your rail bike/car stuff. THank you for those. Going to try to build one for the imminent Day-z apocalypse. Be safe, cheers again.

the reason why its not working on your laptop could be because of interference im no expert but i imagine somehow it could be something related to that, maybe it will work if you used a usb extender to the sdr :)

have you attempted Sirius XM radio reception? they are in a leo polar orbit.

can you use the KU band for internet? Since it's a locator, I assume it is low power, but can you get better than 28.8kbps?

I really want to try this. Can you please give more info on what’s needed and the setup please. Thank you

Great video, I don’t suppose you could share with me some of the configuration settings for your gqrx? Such as your LNB LO. Also how did you come about finding the frequency to listen on? Was it just trial and error until you picked up some signals?

I am wondering if components from a Cobra Ku-band radar detector with a defective display could be hacked into something like this using a Jetson Nano to identify and tag signals for later inspection.

Subd - Really interesting, thank you for sharing your projects. I fly rc and was wondering if you know how to scan 2.4 ghz to see how much noise or signals are there? A phone wi-fi scan shows zero networks...

Looks like the Calamp has two outputs, not inputs.

Is it possible the impedance of the antenna system isn’t matching that of the input parts of the laptop SDR? I’m very much a novice at RF stuff though 😅

Yo St.Louis Park Microcenter has Pi Zeros in stock again! Just saying

you're too much kid! XD question: how do you think a chainsaw (electric) would work on sandstone? ive seen it carved with a nail, but i bet your caves are made of more dense and safer stuff.

I think there might be an error, you said you were looking at the Ku band but it looks like your SDR interface is tuned to 1575 MHz which is the L band

This guy knows his beard

try gps patch antenna w/out saw filter..

what if you use a dvb s2 card that can get satellite data?

This universal LNB work in Ku band range 10700-12750 MHz. 18v = vertical polarisation (it is not important). You simply turn LNB. But on your scanner 15000 MHz. How does it do?

But could you get satellite internet if you wanted? Even if the device would be very conplex

Could you share a link for the power injector? Thank you beforehand. :)

you could try disconnecting the laptop power supply. at least i could receive better with the power supply disconnected

How the hell do you know those are Starlink sats if there isn't even a single frequency listed on th FCC database???

Hey, can you do some angular velocity measurements of those satellites? Flat earthers might be interested to know about the "balloons" we're calling satellites traveling at hypersonic speeds... Edit: If you estimated the altitude of these "balloons" at 50,000 ft they'd appear to be moving up to around 850 MPH - not hypersonic, but still moving at a pretty good clip...

bare radio would be a local oscillator at 10 ghz. grounded base amplifiers have lower voltage gain. cascade of same amplifiers. someone else test it. i have one vhf radio with regenerative if. nc radio with tubes.

Can you build satellite dish array

3.5in screen?

power

you do all these kool things , but 2x- 9v's .. do a lithium battery project - supper EZ , do something simple like a 4s-headway pack

I’m using Starlink wifi 0:50

Is starlink free internet?

ever try detecting sirus or XM sattelites? (yes i know they are the same company now, but they still have two types of sattelites up) been curious what they look like on the spectrum anal-lizer DE KG5DHL

Can you give a link to the power injector you used please?

You know you can open gqrx full screen, don't you?

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Detect but not use? F.

But can it tell which ones are from the CIA, though?

If you think that's a mini-computer, you've never actually seen one.

I can do the same thing with an cell phone

Why is there a patreon link in the description? Why is there a heart with a dollar sign in it next to the word "Thanks" under the video? Why are you violating the spirit of the internet which is the free dissemination of information? Oh man I am SO sick of these brand new to the internet cell phone people. All they think about is MONEY. BUG OFF.