any hobbyist satellite digital radio tuner

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Is it possible to build your own satellite radio tuner?
I guess they do not sell the chip sets to hobbyist?
 
amg <no-spame-nospam@no-spam-yahoo.com> wrote:
Is it possible to build your own satellite radio tuner?
I guess they do not sell the chip sets to hobbyist?
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Possible, yes.
In practice, it's a horribly complex project, with basically all
the difficulty of a satellite reciever, digital decoder, and MP3 player
all added togethter.
 
"Ian Stirling" <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Possible, yes.
In practice, it's a horribly complex project, with basically all
the difficulty of a satellite reciever, digital decoder, and MP3 player
all added togethter.
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Sounds like the perfect college senior design project! ;-)

(Someone who just finished his own USB project and -- on a USB bulletin
board -- saw a regular stream of, "My professor says I need to interface a
PIC to a USB-connected NTFS (with encryption) RAID array and implement a web
server interface over a Gbps Ethernet connection to retrieve the files. In
3 months. How should I proceed?")
 
I can see a chip which is satellite receiver, then, music player.
Aren't those chips already consumer items?
The chip inside may be complicated, but connecting it and make it work seems
like maing a MCU controller works.
 
Joel Kolstad <JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Ian Stirling" <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Possible, yes.
In practice, it's a horribly complex project, with basically all
the difficulty of a satellite reciever, digital decoder, and MP3 player
all added togethter.

Sounds like the perfect college senior design project! ;-)

(Someone who just finished his own USB project and -- on a USB bulletin
board -- saw a regular stream of, "My professor says I need to interface a
PIC to a USB-connected NTFS (with encryption) RAID array and implement a web
server interface over a Gbps Ethernet connection to retrieve the files. In
3 months. How should I proceed?")
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Kill the professor, replace the documentation, and build a LED flasher.
 
On 09 Oct 2004 10:21:45 GMT, Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

Joel Kolstad <JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Ian Stirling" <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4166bf98$0$59477$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
Possible, yes.
In practice, it's a horribly complex project, with basically all
the difficulty of a satellite reciever, digital decoder, and MP3 player
all added togethter.

Sounds like the perfect college senior design project! ;-)

(Someone who just finished his own USB project and -- on a USB bulletin
board -- saw a regular stream of, "My professor says I need to interface a
PIC to a USB-connected NTFS (with encryption) RAID array and implement a web
server interface over a Gbps Ethernet connection to retrieve the files. In
3 months. How should I proceed?")

Kill the professor, replace the documentation, and build a LED flasher.
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Damn you, Ian! Now I have coffee sprayed over the monitor and keyboard.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
amg wrote:
Is it possible to build your own satellite radio tuner?
I guess they do not sell the chip sets to hobbyist?
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Maybe, maybe not. If you can get the parts and build the radio, how are
you going to get a decryption key to make it work?

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Paul Hovnanian mailto:paul@Hovnanian.com
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Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has
temporarily been turned off.
 
That's what hobbyists do.
I can see all the ham radio go digital and satellite.
Don't you?
 
amg posted:

<< That's what hobbyists do.
I can see all the ham radio go digital and satellite.
Don't you?
In the future, you should copy into your message, the message to which you are
responding.

No, I don't see ham radio going all digital and satellite. There is an
interest in both, but if that is *all* hams wanted they would just use a
cellphone or only play at ham radio on 2M.

Don
 
amg <no-spame-nospam@no-spam-yahoo.com> wrote:
That's what hobbyists do.
I can see all the ham radio go digital and satellite.
Don't you?
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Err, no.
I can see spending time making things that are available, to make a
saving.
I cannot see spending more than the retail price, and several hundred
hours in making an inferior device.

And I'm not exactly typical, I'm making parts for a four stage orbital
rocket at $10000 all-in, in the garage.
 
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