Tracking Sattelites with Consumer Components

A Global Network of Ground Stations At 38c3 I attended a workshop on building a sattelite ground stations for communicating with LoRa based sattelites, typically used for research or weather probes. Generally speaking, these are so called “cubesats” , which are small, relatively inexpensive sattelites usually built up of off the shelf components in a modular fashion. In fact, it turns out that…