qo 100 setup advice
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:22 am
hi,
a few words about me
. my name is Lukas, MM0OKO. the qth Edinburgh.
I rediscover my old qo 100 setup and tried to receive datv. I have about 110cm offset dish with pretty old bullseye LNB. I managed to receive pretty patchy beacon and a "slide show" of amateur transmission using rtl-sdr and angel sdr under linux.
I am looking for an advice about running qo 100 station based on Ethernet enabled trx. for now I found two potential candidates Pluto Plus ( in more reasonable price ) and AntSDR E200 ( in slightly less reasonable price
).
I have a few goals to achieve:
1. whole system powered via PoE
- easy enough with PoE injector and Splitter. PoE++ can provide up to 100W. I hope it will be enough
2. I would like to have option to remote switch between narrow and wide transponders
- can be done with remote esp32 and a few of relays, power converters and a bias T
3. full duplex
- is it achievable? tx via PlutoPlus and rx via Picotuner with Ethernet?
4. to make things more interesting I want to run the system under Linux.
- two reasons: a. last usable windows was version 7, b: my laptop cannot pull win 11 anyway.
I will be very grateful for help and information. If questions were already answered links should be enough.
cheers
Lukas
a few words about me
. my name is Lukas, MM0OKO. the qth Edinburgh. I rediscover my old qo 100 setup and tried to receive datv. I have about 110cm offset dish with pretty old bullseye LNB. I managed to receive pretty patchy beacon and a "slide show" of amateur transmission using rtl-sdr and angel sdr under linux.
I am looking for an advice about running qo 100 station based on Ethernet enabled trx. for now I found two potential candidates Pluto Plus ( in more reasonable price ) and AntSDR E200 ( in slightly less reasonable price
).I have a few goals to achieve:
1. whole system powered via PoE
- easy enough with PoE injector and Splitter. PoE++ can provide up to 100W. I hope it will be enough
2. I would like to have option to remote switch between narrow and wide transponders
- can be done with remote esp32 and a few of relays, power converters and a bias T
3. full duplex
- is it achievable? tx via PlutoPlus and rx via Picotuner with Ethernet?
4. to make things more interesting I want to run the system under Linux.
- two reasons: a. last usable windows was version 7, b: my laptop cannot pull win 11 anyway.
I will be very grateful for help and information. If questions were already answered links should be enough.
cheers
Lukas