Bigwhoop NASA Space Challenge: Global Spectrum Monitoring & Distributed Ground Station ...

[CyberchuckTX]

All:

Forwarded from a friend of mine at the Melborne, Florida makerspace: a challenge to join the

Bigwhoop NASA Space Apps Challenge on April 10-12 (last day is today).

I of course noticed "BigWhoop" and figured that A&M would love to be a WhoopER at some point :-) 

I may try to illustrate this as a crowdsourced application that Makerspaces can be a part of; I would think

this would fit in our definition of "Citizen Science".

NASA SpaceApps Tumblr Blog

http://spaceapps.tumblr.com/

Specific app being started/run at this hackathon -

Bigwhoop NASA Space Challenge app

https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/

Global Spectrum Monitoring. Measuring everything! The AerospaceResearch.net team is working on the Distributed Ground Station Network for tracking small satellites and its proof-of-concept project BigWhoop, a global sensor grid for radio spectrum monitoring with software defined radio. BigWhoop will monitor the radio frequencies globally with your help! Because we will use our existing Constellation platform, a network of more than 60000 computers world wide whore those sensors will be plugged. By this, we will turn those PCs in sensor nodes for RF reception. On of those tasks it will to will be the air traffic control. But you will be able to add more tasks, because it will be open-source and you can add and change it as you like it. Come, and join our project! Measure everything! >> bigw...@aerospaceresearch.net

Charlie

Date: April 11, 2015 at 7:49:36 PM EDT
To: Melbourne Makers <melbourne-...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [MelbourneMakerspace] Fwd: [SpaceProgram] BigWhoop is live during NASA Space Apps Challenge 2015. Call for beta testing of RTLSDR Global Radio Spectrum Monitoring! (Github link inside)

For all you HAM radio members this looks like it might be fun?

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From: Constellation <conste...@aerospaceresearch.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM
Subject: [SpaceProgram] BigWhoop is live during NASA Space Apps Challenge 2015. Call for beta testing of RTLSDR Global Radio Spectrum Monitoring! (Github link inside)
To: spaceprogram <spacep...@lists.hackerspaces.org>

Hello everyone,

we are live with BigWhoop and ready to monitor the radio spectrum!

We are calling all interested Software Defined Radio fans out there to test our alpha for the sensor node we hacked together during the NASA Space Apps Stuttgart 2015 that is currently happening in shackspace.

We know we need to tweak it, we will do that the next days, but with your help, we can already monitor the spectrum and detect all signals within.
And hopefully, this will grow up to be our ground station software we need for our Distributed Ground Station Network for tracking satellites.

So we would really appreciate if you plugin your RTL-SDR dongles, use our "node" software you can find via link to Github here[0] and send us the first results of what is active in radio at your place.

Feel free to contact us with any comment or just push code to the Github repo.


Best, and good night for now,


Andreas
[0] https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/

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[Matt Michalka]

This looks really cool, but unfortunately, I don't have a SDR reciver.  Anybody know where to get a good one on the cheap?

On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 2:20:37 AM UTC-5, CyberchuckTX wrote:

All:

Forwarded from a friend of mine at the Melborne, Florida makerspace: a challenge to join the

Bigwhoop NASA Space Apps Challenge on April 10-12 (last day is today).

I of course noticed "BigWhoop" and figured that A&M would love to be a WhoopER at some point :-) 

I may try to illustrate this as a crowdsourced application that Makerspaces can be a part of; I would think

this would fit in our definition of "Citizen Science".

NASA SpaceApps Tumblr Blog

http://spaceapps.tumblr.com/

Specific app being started/run at this hackathon -

Bigwhoop NASA Space Challenge app

https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/

Global Spectrum Monitoring. Measuring everything! The AerospaceResearch.net team is working on the Distributed Ground Station Network for tracking small satellites and its proof-of-concept project BigWhoop, a global sensor grid for radio spectrum monitoring with software defined radio. BigWhoop will monitor the radio frequencies globally with your help! Because we will use our existing Constellation platform, a network of more than 60000 computers world wide whore those sensors will be plugged. By this, we will turn those PCs in sensor nodes for RF reception. On of those tasks it will to will be the air traffic control. But you will be able to add more tasks, because it will be open-source and you can add and change it as you like it. Come, and join our project! Measure everything! >> bigw...@aerospaceresearch.net

Charlie

Date: April 11, 2015 at 7:49:36 PM EDT

To: Melbourne Makers <melbourne-makerspace@googlegroups.com>

Subject: [MelbourneMakerspace] Fwd: [SpaceProgram] BigWhoop is live during NASA Space Apps Challenge 2015. Call for beta testing of RTLSDR Global Radio Spectrum Monitoring! (Github link inside)

For all you HAM radio members this looks like it might be fun?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Constellation <constellation@aerospaceresearch.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM
Subject: [SpaceProgram] BigWhoop is live during NASA Space Apps Challenge 2015. Call for beta testing of RTLSDR Global Radio Spectrum Monitoring! (Github link inside)
To: spaceprogram <spaceprogram@lists.hackerspaces.org>

Hello everyone,

we are live with BigWhoop and ready to monitor the radio spectrum!

We are calling all interested Software Defined Radio fans out there to test our alpha for the sensor node we hacked together during the NASA Space Apps Stuttgart 2015 that is currently happening in shackspace.

We know we need to tweak it, we will do that the next days, but with your help, we can already monitor the spectrum and detect all signals within.
And hopefully, this will grow up to be our ground station software we need for our Distributed Ground Station Network for tracking satellites.

So we would really appreciate if you plugin your RTL-SDR dongles, use our "node" software you can find via link to Github here[0] and send us the first results of what is active in radio at your place.

Feel free to contact us with any comment or just push code to the Github repo.


Best, and good night for now,


Andreas
[0] https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/

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[Ke5ism]

Amazon

Search for rtl sdr. Make sure to get the antenna adapter for the connector.  Read the amazon comments on the dongle to make sure it works for Sdr. 

I have several and primarily use them for spectrum analysis on PC and an agile receiver on PI. 

E

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[Matt Michalka]

Thanks Eric!  I found this one and went ahead and grabbed it.  Reviews said it was good for entry level sdr.

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