[Ground-station] For Charles Brain, and anyone else that might be interested in this opportunity

[Michelle Thompson]

We are an open source DVB-S2/X project, so you will be fully informed by
being here on this list.

-mdt

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 10:33 Art Towslee <towslee1 at ee.net> wrote:

> Michelle,
> This is partially why I am presently working hard to develop the hardware
> portion of a DVB-S2X stand alone receiver. We have already talked to a
> demodulator manufacturer.
> Keep me informed.
> Art Towslee
> WA8RMC
>
>
> On 3/18/2021 12:39 PM, Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station wrote:
>
> Yes, I definitely knew.
>
> Here to help.
>
> DVB-S2 GPU code is in our repo and was demonstrated at Henderson GNU Radio
> Conference.
>
> Charles' direction and assessment here is important and valued.
>
> I believe he would want this work to see some bright light.
>
> -mdt
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 08:51 Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now you know why I was asking so hard during QSO Today. ;-)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:18 AM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
>> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>
>>> ESA has issued a call for proposal on the issue of: "Wideband DVB-S2x
>>> software demodulator running on CPU and/or GPU on consumer hardware
>>> platforms"
>>>
>>> For 500k EUR.
>>>
>>> Here are all details:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://cloud.libre.space/s/womfYo4gpz7efNy?fbclid=IwAR2nNBCgiSlgy00CTc4HbygcrO_tWg6do6IOSkppFMSMvqF2uq5it-JPQBo
>>>
>>> Pierros advises to check the statement of work especially, and strongly
>>> encourages us to try for this. I believe it's fair to say he would be
>>> supportive.
>>>
>>> Charles, what do you think? Want to go for it?
>>>
>>> Can we help here? What is your assessment of this proposal?
>>>
>>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob McGwier
>> Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc
>> Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc
>> ARDC, member Board of Directors
>> Adjunct Professor Virginia Tech
>> Former Chief Scientist:  The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National
>> Security and Technology
>> Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY
>>
>>
>
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