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SATSAGEN can now manage external RX/TX mixers and their LOs. 🔹 ADF PLL & Pluto LO management 🔹 Harmonic Order & lookup tables 🔹 Negative IF with automatic spectral inversion 🔹 Shared LO for RX + TX external mixers albfer.com/en/2026/08/26/ext…
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Thanks to Chris DH5DAN pro help, the Satsagen release with SDRplay RSP1B support is ready to download: albfer.com/en/satsagen-downl…
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A new Satsagen release with improved LibreSDR/ZynqSDR support and some other fixes is available on albfer.com/en/satsagen-downl…
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SATSAGEN v.0.9.3.6 is ready for download. Added LMX2820 support. The picture shows a 10.368 GHz centered DRO filter characterization using an LMX2820 board as TX and an ADALM-PLUTO as RX.
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Some functions and compatibility are improved in Satsagen starting version 0.9.3.5 for a better experience on Linux Wine. See a little tutorial at albfer.com/en/2025/06/04/sat…
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My friend Gianni IW1EPY discovered a tricky problem with the ADALM-PLUTO used above specifications: albfer.com/en/2025/06/04/the… #plutosdr #satsagen
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Hi All, SATSAGEN v.0.9.3.3 albfer.com/en/satsagen-downl… Highlights: - Synthesizer Generator and Power Meter devices equipped with a GPIB interface are supported (via a GPIB USB interface like an AR488) - Up to three devices for VNA operations - LMX2595 support - AirSpy HF+ support
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Dear All, SATSAGEN v.0.9.2.1: albfer.com/en/satsagen-downl… - Time Domain (IF demodulation) - ADF4351 and Si5351 support - VNA dual-port/dual devices configuration - Configuration diagrams for SNA/VNA settings And many other additions, improvements, and fixes.
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SATSAGEN v.0.9.1.1 with the RTL-SDR V4 support is ready to download: albfer.com/en/satsagen-downl… A tutorial for working with the compensation/linearization tables: albfer.com/en/2024/08/21/the…
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Visit Mauro's IZ1OTT stand at #HamRadio2024 in #Friedrichshafen, Floh market hall A3 - stand D012. His valuable microwave devices are available, like the cool low-noise 24 GHz preamplifier!
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Dear All, SATSAGEN v.0.9.0.1 albfer.com/satsagen-download… - AM, FM, and LSB/USB radio - Deviation/modulation meter for FM and AM - Noise/Gain Analyzer improvements - Cumulative, Average, and Time Folding for radio astronomy - Includes many other improvements, new features and fixes
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The 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗔𝗫 book (aka 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸, as it is 800+ pages) is now 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: - Paperback (Black & White) - Hardcover (Color) - eBook (PDF, Kindle, ePub) 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: sqlbi.com/articles/the-optim… 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: sqlbi.com/books/optimizing-d…
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StratoSat-TK1 morning pass
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A CW at about 18 GHz -10 dBm by a 1966-year HP generator with a BWO tube directly connected to the RX port of an ADALM-PLUTO with a 10 dB attenuator. About a +/- 400 kHz of BWO frequency drift.
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Franck F1SSF has made a PCB that collects all Satsagen interfaces for noise source power, drives an external ADF5355 synthesizer, enables SA trigger, and performs other functions. Find how to build his PCB, such as Gerber files and schematics, from here: bit.ly/3v28HSC
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SATSAGEN v.0.8.2.1 albfer.com/satsagen-download… - Airspy Mini support - Airspy R2 preliminary support - Added RX gain attenuation selector for noise gain analyzer - Some other improvements and fixes.
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The decision of the English judges to proceed today at 11 AM (🇬🇧 time) with the suspension of life support for little Indi, despite the possibility of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome 🇮🇹 to provide her with the best palliative therapies and despite the granting of Italian citizenship, is a defeat for humanity, for medicine, for science, and for Western civilization. The decision was made on the basis of quality of life parameters that are totally euthanistic and that plunge us back into the darkest periods of our recent history. A little girl will die today from suffocation not because of her illness but because a judge prevented her parents from helping her to breathe. #IndiGregory joins Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Isaiah Haastrup in the ranks of young British children whom the British health service and the British judiciary have deemed unworthy to live despite the effective possibility of the best palliative care and the love of their parents. While thanking the Italian government for everything it has done to try to save little Indi's life, we hope that a bilateral agreement between Italy and the United Kingdom will be promoted in the near future to allow parents who wish to do so to bring their sick children to Italy for treatment, and thus avoid similar situations in the future.
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Today I tried noise measurement with SATSAGEN software by @albfer6 and RSP1A by @SDRPlay as receiver on L-band. Quick and dirty test worked really nice. Tested some other LNA's for other frequencies as well with good results.
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Very interesting "Gain and Noise Figure" measurement feature in SATSAGEN v.0.8.0.0 Tested some LNA and results are very close with those made with professional instrument. Many thanks to Alberto @albfer6 for continuos improvement. VLNA in test is a 13cm G4DDK
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