Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Sylvain Munaut
Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite close, I suppose it would work more or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Vanush Vaswani
The polarisation loss in your case might be 30 dB. Have a look into that. Regards, Vanush On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Sylvain Munaut 246...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-29 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi all, Thanks! I'll give it a try once I get a LHCP antenna. Best regards, Cheng Chi On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Vanush Vaswani van...@gmail.com wrote: The polarisation loss in your case might be 30 dB. Have a look into that. Regards, Vanush On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:45 PM,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite close, I suppose it would work more or less)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency bands are quite

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Cheng Chi
Hi, I think it's TDMA/FDMA, not spread spectrum. Each channel is about 30KHz. Best regards, Cheng Chi On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 01/28/2014 09:14 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/28/2014 09:24 PM, Cheng Chi wrote: Hi, I think it's TDMA/FDMA, not spread spectrum. Each channel is about 30KHz. Best regards, Cheng Chi Make sure that you're tuned to the correct frequency, and that your link margins are adequate. It could be that your antenna has insufficient gain

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread John Malsbury
Cheng, The resources I've read say that the downlink is 1525-1559 MHz, which is a ways off from Iridium's frequency of 1616-1626 MHz. This would suggest that you should find a different antenna, like this one which covers both bands:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread John Malsbury
Also, apparently, the two systems have opposite polarization: http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/satcomms/3G1216RL-P-XXX-X.pdf -John On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:32 PM, John Malsbury john.malsb...@ettus.comwrote: Cheng, The resources I've read say that the downlink is 1525-1559 MHz, which is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with receiving signal from satellite Thuraya-3

2014-01-28 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:14:19AM +0800, Cheng Chi wrote: I am trying to collect signal from Thuraya-3. Here is the setup I used: - USRP N210 + WBX - LNA with 30dB gain (ZHL-1217MLN) - Iridium Antenna (I don't have specific antenna for Thuraya right now. Since Iridium and Thuraya frequency