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        "address": "howard (a) howardlong.com",
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    "sender_name": "Howard Long",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  FUNcube Dongle",
    "date": "2010-10-14T14:21:05Z",
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    "content": "Folks\n\nI've been enormously gratified by the large volume of interest I've had in\nthe FUNcube Dongle over the past few weeks, and as the pace of enquiries has\nstepped up I've decided to come clean about the development progress.\n\nIn case -bb subscribers are unaware, the FUNcube Dongle was originally\ndesigned to be an accessible way to be able to receive amateur satellites,\nmost noteably AMSAT-UK's forthcoming FUNcube cubesat\n(http://www.funcube.org.uk). What does accessible mean? Essentially we mean\nboth low cost and easy to setup. The original target market is, and remains,\nwhat I call the unconverted, those, particularly in education, who need a\nmeans of being able to practically introduce and demonstrate real space\ntechnology in a hands-on way.\n\nWhen the work on FUNcube was distributed, I was given the task of coming up\nwith the ground segment, and the result is the FUNcube Dongle.\n\nAs it's tuned out, the FUNcube Dongle has the added bonus that it's a\nVHF/UHF and low microwave equivalent to the well-known Softrock in an\nintegrated plug and play package. We intend to have two models, an\nentry-level frequency-restricted version targeted at the educational market,\nand a full blown Pro version that seems to piqued the interest of many radio\namateurs, radio astronomers and short wave listeners.\n\nIn précis, it includes an integrated front end filter, LNA, quatrature LO,\nzero-IF quadrature downconverter, dual 16 bit ADC and USB soundcard. In it's\nsimplest of forms, it's SMA in, USB out. It's also compatible with pretty\nmuch any software that works for the Softrock, for example LinRad,\nSpectravue, M0KGK and Rocky. \n\nThe passband is 96kHz, tuneable from 64MHz to 1,700MHz. The tuning is via a\nUSB HID interface meaning that as well as your favourite soundcard SDR\nprogram, you'll need a little app supplied with the FUNcube Dongle to\ncontrol the centre frequency or you'll end up only listening to my favourite\nFM broadcast station ;-)\n\nIt's also compatible with XP, Vista , Windows 7 in 32 bit and Vista and\nWindows 7 in 64 bit. Initial testing on the Mac and Ubuntu 32 and 64 bit\nshows compatibility too, however I haven't written the frequency control\napplication for those platforms yet.\n\nSo, no USB drivers are required!\n\nTo keep people informed going forward, I have set up a blog here:\nhttp://www.funcubedongle.com/. A few of us on the -BB may be aware of an\nrather prolific internal blog I've been writing for the FUNcube technical\nteam that covers 100 posts or so over the past three months. The choice cuts\nof the internal blog will also appear in the http://www.funcubedongle.com/\nblog.\n\nAlso there's a video here of the first pre-production unit\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzTBPLqal0\n\nProjected availability of the first production batch of the Pro version is\nDecember 2010. Pricing is subject to assembly costs, but to give you\nindicative pricing we are working on an initial price of the Pro version to\nbe circa USD150/GBP100.\n\n73, Howard G6LVB\n\n\n\n\n",
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