Reverse Beacon Network Node Setup
Kim Elmore
I am the faculty advisor for the University of Oklahoma student amateur radio club, officially named the Alpha Sigma Delta Amateur Radio Society, it's historical name. I'm in the process of collecting information for an ARDC grant to build a Reverse Beacon Network node to be installed as part of the club station, W5TC, at the National Weather Center (NWC) in Norman, OK. My intent is to write a grant sufficient for a CW/RTTY/FTn node with the antenna near the top of the NWC putting the antenna up about 150 ft. I'd like the node to cover 160-6 m using a Red Pitaya SDR with a GPSDO external clock. I've read the https://hamsci.org/cw-reverse-beacon-network-how-guide page and have enlisted a few others to help with the installation and set up. Are there other sources I should read and be aware of before I begin this process?
73,
Kim Elmore N5OPKim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
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Kim Elmore
This is precisely the kind of information I need! What's the
nature of the differences between the Red Pitaya and the RX888?
There's no big rush for getting the grant in, as I have a lot more
to learn and I have time to learn it. I want what we build to be
useful for the RBN *and* HamSci. Do we need to build two different
nodes: one for RBN and one for HamSci?
I'm all ears at this point.
73,
Kim Elmore N5OP
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