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.
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.
- An 802.11n dongle.
Here's a youtube overview of the desktop environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TuNVC0Vw2Y&t=281s
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.