Hello, I just wanted to be crystal clear I'm not a RF person at all. I barely know enough to get me by. But I was curious about starlink dish.From the teardown videos I have saw I'm wondering how is it possible taking all that little ST micro 632 of them and making an wireless array like that? The frequency is somethink like different depending on the country you are in. But yet all the dishes are the same size and shape. I'm just curious that's all. Any information trying to understand how they do it would be great. Thank you.
Joseph
What I'm trying to understand is how do they take all them little micro processors and combine them into one big wireless dish. I don't know of anything out there like it.
I know this is not an arduino type of project. But Trying to make the case If it was to be an arduino project how would combing all the little micro processors to produce one big wireless dish would would it work and sense I'm in the US using something like ISM bands like 2.4ghz or 5ghz how would an arduino do that like thedish is doing?
This is a question for a radio forum.
Check out radio interferometer.
Mostly you need to use external hardware for radio applications with Arduino, so no, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Okay. Then I'm wondering how they are doing it. They are basically turning the micro processor into the transceiver itself.
ARRL has a nice electronics book that can help you understand all manner of radio electronics
I'll check it out thank you.
I think you need to search for software defined radio and phased array. Beyond that this is beyond my knowledge.
You are ignoring the multiple ground stations that are also involved.
This video shows the beam-steering parts of the Starlink antenna. The interesting part starts near minute 21.
I understand that there is ground stations transceivers. But that wasn't my question about the dish itself.
But they are the controls that make it all work.
I did watch videos. I didn't understand in layman's terms how do they combine all the little micro processors with wireless on them into one big dish. Again I'm not a RF person I was just trying to figure it out. Now I'm understanding a little more.
True. I'm understanding a little more now. It's just from what I'm seeing is how are they producing wireless without any external Ic. From what I can see they are turning that little St micro processor into a transceiver.
The rest is behind the curtain. They would never show the real stuff so it could be duplicated!
