GAUSS Mini Ground Dongle
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USB low-power UHF transceiver/TNC dongle for safely simulating a ground station under laboratory conditions.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Data rate
- 0.3 Mbps
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Output power
- Up to 15 dBm
- Frequency band
- UHF for TT&C
- Interface
- USB, with drivers for Windows, Linux and MAC
- Protocol
- AX.25 supported
- Fec
- Viterbi k4 (Viterbi k7 & Reed-Solomon on request)
- Tnc
- Integrated TNC, KISS interface
- Mode
- Transparent mode supported
- Data rate
- 300 bps to 100 kbps (up to 250 kbps with 4GFSK on request)
- Sensitivity
- -122 dBm @1.2 kbps, -119 dBm @9.6 kbps, -109 dBm @50 kbps
- Gpio
- For external output amplifier exciter
- Firmware
- Upgradable from PC
- Modulations
- FSK/MSK/GFSK/GMSK
- Components grade
- Off the shelf industrial / automotive
- Compatibility
- Full compatibility with all GAUSS Radios
- Connector
- SMA connector for antenna
About
GAUSS Mini Ground Dongle is a USB low-power board to simulate a ground station safely under laboratory conditions. The USB dongle integrates both a low-power UHF transceiver and a TNC, miniaturizing common ground station rack systems. It was designed to give easy access to TT&C testing during final verifications and pre-integration periods, but it can also be used on an actual ground station if an external power amplifier is added. It is fully compatible with the GAUSS UHF Radio. The dongle comes with multi-platform software, so it can be used with any PC/Mac available in the lab. A special bundle includes both the Radio and the Mini Ground Dongle for quick system deployment.
Documentation
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