<div dir="ltr">The past few weeks have been very productive and very interesting. We'll have a full report by Friday to bring everyone up to date. We have plenty of good news and one unnecessary disappointment. I'm still trying to reverse the disappointment, but if I can't, then I'll document it and we'll move on. <br><br>For this week, here's what we're digging into. Please add your work if it's not mentioned! <br><br>Build upon the SDSoC Hello World Success on Snickerdoodle. SDSoC is a Xilinx method of turning C/C++ code into FPGA code. We want to take Charles Brain's LDPC decode and get it into an FPGA, and get it working better with ACM. This is a big bunch of work with nontrivial code. Climb aboard. Need help starting? Write me. <br><br>Publish the LNB on a Stick design and define next steps. This has been really fun and we're learning a lot and getting good feedback from SBMS and SDMG and others. <br><br>Define and publish a radiation manifesto for Phase 4 Space. Investigate some sneaky ways to test radiation that might be available to us, since the landscape for commercial/industrial/research radiation sources has shifted over time and FPGAs have some interesting behaviors that we can exploit. Some of this was talked about with respect to Phase 4B in presentations over the past two years. We are going to gather up what we know and publish it and chart a proposed course for open source higher orbit payload testing.<br><br>Correlator team has another interested volunteer who will also be a docent at the GNU Radio Block Party. Her name is Sahana Raghunandan and she has a lot of modem and commercial satellite experience. Brennan Ashton is working on code guts, but I don't think it's "blockerized" yet. If we can get a read on that and a draft to test, then we can move up (or down) the pipe a bit. <br><br>Publicize the Block Party. This is "make a lot more DVB-S2/X blocks for GNU Radio" at GNU Radio Conference. Please help work on this now so we can test interoperability at the conference, and not just start writing blocks at the conference. This event has gotten a lot of interest and support. That interest and support needs to translate into actual blocks written. I don't know how to do that except to keep asking, helping, and enabling. I am here to remove impediments. If you haven't signed up for GNU Radio Conference, please do. It will be a lot of fun and is one of our biggest summits of the year for Phase 4.<br><br>Book travel to Spain for Open Source Cubesat Workshop. I can go, but I want to send people that don't hate space. This is exactly our tribe. It's an expensive trip. If the cost is an impediment then contact me right now and let's see what we can do about it. <br><br>Book travel to Goddard for the interplanetary cubesat workshop. Several of us will be there and we hope to learn a lot and get feedback and have an East Coast Meetup. <br><br>Pay our taxes from Hamvention. Yes, we're paying taxes on our sales. Yes, I know some other organizations do not because they argue their sales are really donations. Yes, I know some booths don't pay taxes because no one is really checking. We will be doing so for several reasons. We sold products at our booth. Sales, not donations. Commerce means our trademark application for Trans-Ionospheric goes forward. You don't get or keep a trademark without sales. I learned this from, ironically, Burning Man. <br><div><br></div><div>We'll be at DEFCON (end of summer) with a demo table and Trans-Ionospherics.<br><br>I think we could be at TAPR DCC with a demo table, but I haven't asked DCC yet. <br><br>DCC and GNU Radio Conference and Open Source Cubesat Workshop are three events back to back to back. If we want a demo table at DCC (and we probably do) then we need a lead for it. I and others can bring stuff and staff it. For this to happen, I need logistics setup support. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We'll be at Microwave Update (October) with a demo table.</span><br><br>We have been asked for papers from... well... everyone. Including IEEE. We have a lot going on, from radiation, to feeds, to cheap 10GHz receivers, to software tricks that stabilize 10GHz, to LDPC on FPGA, to ACM tuning... The documentation of our work, and the publishing of it, is how we "hold up our end of the bargain". We have a lot of good published writers out there. We have a conference season coming up. Let's distribute some ideas and get papers (and presentations) submitted. <br><br>I am here to help you volunteer to do all of this and more. Let me know how I can help make it well worth your time.<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-Michelle W5NYV<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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