Low-cost frequency-stable beacon receiver based on software defined radio

Author

Kuhar, Urban ; Kandus, Gorazd ; Vilhar, Andrej

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Syst., Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Slovenia

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The design of a low-cost beacon receiver based on software defined radio is presented. The motivation for such a receiver is to investigate atmospheric impairments at the Ka and Q/V frequency bands. The receiver has been tested by the Eutelsat Hotbird 6 satellite beacon signal. Beacon signal attenuation has been compared to rainfall measurements and to modeled ITU-R scintillation distributions. We have shown that the frequency drift can be well compensated by PLL, implemented in GNU Radio.

Keywords

interference suppression; phase locked loops; receivers; satellite communication; scattering; software radio; Eutelsat Hotbird 6 satellite beacon signal; GNU Radio; ITU-R scintillation distributions; Ka frequency bands; PLL; Q frequency bands; V frequency bands; atmospheric impairments; beacon signal attenuation; frequency drift; low-cost frequency-stable beacon receiver; rainfall measurements; software defined radio; Atmospheric measurements; Noise; Phase locked loops; Rain; Receivers; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2012 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Split

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2710-7

Type

conf

Filename

6347571