Custom Cyberdeck For (Legal) Satellite Hacking

After doing a number of satellite and radio astronomy experiments, I finally got tired of my old briefcase full of tangled radio gear. I dug through my collection of broken computers, old wires, spare parts, and other junk, and assembled an all-in-one space cyberdeck! This system combines most of my satellite and software-defined-radio gear into one portable platform. The hardware includes: - Touchscreen computer - RTL-SDR radio - Various filter / amp modules - Various WiFi modules - Satellite Meter / digital video player - PTZ control for my older dish pointers - LNB power injector - King-Dome / Vuqube control - Panel-mount port interfaces Software includes: - Q4OS (simple, low-resource Linux) - GQRX (standard SDR software) - Gpredict for satellite tracking - GOEStools, WXtoIMG, etc for weather satellites The system is fairly modular and expandable, with most major components simply stuck in with velcro tape. If I want to swap modules for a different experiment, I can just pop them out and replace with something else. Some of the parts I used include: - Datalux Tracer computer (found for $ at a police auction). - RTL-SDR Blog v3 () - Wideband LNA () - Talentcell 12v 6Ah battery pack () - Snpurdiri 60% keyboard () - AC600 Wifi adapter () - GTMedia v8 Satellite Meter () - Old Dell PCMCIA wifi card - Old Broadcom Mini-PCI wifi card - King-Dome remote (None of these were sponsored products and I bought all of this myself) I’m planning to do a variety of projects and experiments with this system and my various 2nd-hand satellite antennas in the future. Stay tuned to see what I come up with! *Please note that my use of the term “hacking“ refers to using hardware and software for unintended or experimental purposes, not anything unauthorized! I am not breaking, pirating, or transmitting anything. I’m simply poking around at old satellite hardware to see what can be freely and legally done with it! Saveitforparts t-shirts and other merch at Join this channel to get access to perks: Or support me via Patreon at