Rolo's electronics projects pages

This post shows a small and simple satellite ground station that a company uses for internet data transfer.

It is located in a very small and very hot town in Yungas, About eight hours of road travel north-east of La Paz, Bolivia. As can be seen in the photo above the dish is small. It's pointed to the north-west.

The feed antenna is off the focus of the parabola.

The antenna horn:

A closer view:

The block down converter (receiver):

A 2W block up-converter (transmitter):

Its heatsink is warm to the touch:

The full antenna assembly showing the orthomode transducer:

The RF input and output are connected to this gateway and from there it is all standard Ethernet LAN.

Back:

The guy in charge of the system wasn't available so I couldn't ask questions, but I got to use the internet and all I can say is that it's very slow, felt like 64kbps.