[Ground-station] DVB Monitoring, was: Need advice on DVB-S2 modem

[Charles Brain]

You can run the LongMynd receiver software with the DATV-Express Minitiouner
you should be able to see whatever you need with that.
https://github.com/myorangedragon/longmynd

- Charles


On 09/12/2019 21:05, Art Towslee wrote:
> Stan,
> I can't accurately answer because Charles Brain G4GUO did all 
> software. I don't know what the Wireshark dissectors are. I DO know 
> that it is easy to record a snapshot of the received transport stream 
> and view the computer data with standard analyzers. We provide a 
> "record" feature where pressing the button will store the continuous 
> transport stream until the button is again pressed. The receiver does 
> have an internal 8 bit parallel transport stream but it is not wired 
> out. It goes directly to the USB controller chip.
>
> The associated free MiniTioune software we provide with the 
> MiniTioune-Express receiver has a lot of diagnostic features including 
> a constellation display. *Charles, can you elaborate on this?*
> Art.
>
> On 12/9/2019 12:55 PM, Stan, W1LE via Ground-Station wrote:
>>
>> Hello Art and the Net:
>>
>> any idea if the DATV-Express receiver can have a output tap to look 
>> at the data stream output with the Wireshark dissectors ?
>>
>> My objective is to look at the DVB satellite downlink data stream to 
>> better understand what is going on and to monitor my locally 
>> generated DVB datastream, as I modify the various parameters.
>>
>> If the DATV-Express receiver does not have a data stream output, any 
>> suggestions on a receiver that does provide a suitable data stream 
>> output?
>>
>> Thanks   Stan, W1LE    Cape Cod
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/2019 9:52 AM, Art Towslee via Ground-Station wrote:
>>> Mike,
>>> In regard to your need for a receiver that will demodulate signals < 
>>> 200Ksymbols, The DATV-Express group makes a tuner/receiver that will 
>>> receive a DVB-S/S2 signal as low as 70Ksymbols/sec on a frequency of 
>>> 144 to 2420MHz. I designed the hardware part of it and sell it for 
>>> $75 + shipping. Check out the specs at www.DATV-Express.com. Let me 
>>> know if I can help.
>>> Regards,
>>> Art Towslee
>>> WA8RMC
>>>
>>>
>

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