[Ground-station] DVB-S2X at E35

[Ron Economos]

The most full featured DVB-S2X chip is the STiD135.

https://www.st.com/en/digital-set-top-box-ics/stid135.html

I've evaluated this PCI card with the chip.

https://www.digital-devices.eu/shop/en/tv-cards/tv-cards-for-pcie/340/8-tuner-tv-card-dd-max-sx8-4/8-dvb-s2/dvb-s2x-full-spectrum?c=156

Here's a video of the card running 8+8APSK with the GNU Radio DVB-S2X 
transmitter. The card has a test mode that outputs the partially 
demodulated IQ samples instead of the fully demodulated Transport Stream.

http://www.w6rz.net/sx8.mp4

Ron W6RZ

On 8/21/19 20:26, KC9SGV via Ground-Station wrote:
> Yes and that box is priced at around E50.
> Does up to DVB-S2 only.
> Various models.
>
> KC9SGV
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Aug 21, 2019, at 10:20 PM, allon <allon at radioactive.org> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 21, 2019, at 10:06 AM, KC9SGV via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>> DVB-S2X satellite TV tuner at 35 Euros.
>>>
>>> https://www.deschotelshop.nl/en/gigablue-dvbs2x-tuner
>> Looks like it’s just the RF section to drop in as a second tuner into a box that does all the demod/decoding.
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