What is this? No offense but this site looks like a concept mock-up. There's no actual information besides general ideas and stock photos, and there's no further links or reading, just an email address.
I can assure you, it's real! I got mine in the mail on Monday!
Caveat: I have not attained reception yet, because of obstacles.
The North America kit comes with:
- Low Noise Block Downconverter (LNB) antenna, capable of Ku-Band reception of the SES-2 satellite. Must be pointed very accurately: elevation, azimuth AND rotating for polarization
- Crappy little tripod, good enough to get started
- An acrylic laser-cut LNB collar to hold the antenna on the tripod, which I immediately snapped.
- A 1GHz arm based board with embedded software defined radio.
Basically, the board receives compressed tar files in the data stream and caches them on a secondary microSD card. You access that content with various linux desktop apps served over a webdesktop.
I’ve got one of installed back home in the outskirts of Milan (near lake Como). It’s the sort of thing you don’t expect to ever need but that might be useful in the one in a billion chance.
It also receives APRS signals, which can be really handy in situations of truly catastrophic disaster.
