Very Cool..... Discovery Drive from Crowd Supply

[Stephen Arbogast]

See     https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-drive

Thoughts?

[Don Latham]

why  WIFI  as a control mode?

or how to hook easily to remote USB?

 

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Don Latham
PO Box 404,
Frenchtown, MT, 59846
406-626-4304

 

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From: 'Stephen <sara...@googlegroups.com>
To: Society <sara...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 6:36 PM MDT
Subject: [SARA] Very Cool..... Discovery Drive from Crowd Supply

See     https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-drive

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stephen Arbogast]

Not sure I understand   your  question?     I can use wifi  to control  my  discovery  dish pointing......  

[Stephen Arbogast]

I have been using  USB cable for   years   and  would  like to  get away  from it.

[Stephen Arbogast]

My   small  Discovery  Dish  is now  going to   be  controlled  by  software   via  Discovery   Drive.   I have  not  tested  this..  looking  forward  to testing  .. hope  it  works.

See  

See     https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-drive

 

On Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 6:54:56 PM UTC-6 Don Latham wrote:

[Stephen Arbogast]

I just  ordered the  new Discovery Drive.

Maybe  people  like  Alex  Pettit    can  test  this  for  us with his  lab.... how  accurate  and stable is  it?

[Ayushman Tripathi]

Hi, Stephen.

Great News!

I'll order mine soon, It won't help with my 2.4 m dish but should be fine for smaller 2nd WiFi grid dish setup that I'll move to a no RFI location soon.

Thanks.

On Friday, March 13, 2026 at 6:06:19 AM UTC+5:30 Stephen Arbogast wrote:

See     https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-drive

Thoughts?

[Stephen Arbogast]

I am   running  on   Ubuntu 24.4.04   on  AMD.  I have  checked  my kernel drivers for   wifi...     I   am  missing the driver    and   I don't  want  to take  any chances  installing  the  suggested  driver in  my kernel  while    I am playing/testing my  GNU Radio  experiments.

Stephen

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[Mike Otte]

WIFI and usb,  both emitters, possible interference.  Maybe a simpler control bus that only is active when you interrogate the positioner? Instead of being "connected "all the time.

just my 2 cents.

Mike

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[Don Latham]

And you do not have any RFI effects from the wifi?

 

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From: 'Stephen <sara...@googlegroups.com>
To: Society <sara...@googlegroups.com>

Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 7:08 PM MDT
Subject: Re: [SARA] Very Cool..... Discovery Drive froow to hookl to USm Crowd Supply

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[Don Latham]

USB is short range...

 

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From: 'Stephen <sara...@googlegroups.com>
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Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 7:12 PM MDT

Subject: Re: [SARA] Very Cool..... Discovery Drive froow to hookl to USm Crowd Supply

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[Don Latham]

 

I do not see how local wifi can avoid generating RFI. I, too, hope it works.

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From: 'Stephen <sara...@googlegroups.com>
To: Society <sara...@googlegroups.com>

Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 10:06 PM MDT

Subject: Re: [SARA] Very Cool..... Discovery Drive froow to hookl to USm Crowd Supply

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[Steve Hallman]

Discovery Drive Info: Wi-Fi connectivity (2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n) with browser-based web UI

The Wifi does operate at about 1GHz higher frequency than the H-Line Signal

Steve

Miracles of Science... Benefiting all Humanity

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