It would be great if some here can link us to all 4 antennas we needs inc the gps one.
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Here is the GPS Ant. I ordered: Quadrifilar Helical Antenna - High-Precision GPS for Drones, Vehicles – AERO SELFIE
Lora: Amazon.com: Geekstory 2 PCS LoRa Antenna 915MHz 2DBI with U.FL IPEX to SMA Connector for Lora Board ESP32 Lora32u4 II WiFi Lora32 15cm : Electronics, Keep in mind this is for 915Mhz)
SDR: Still figuring out my set-up. But I’m using a BNC connector. SDR as Rex stated, antenna is dependent on what you’re wanting to pick up. Here is a video that provides a good basis, I believe: Frugal Radio: SDR Guide Ep 4 – Antenna Basics for SDR Beginners
The other slot is to use a Wi-Fi SMA antenna. Really, your choice..
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Does anyone have experience with this GPS antenna? It is much more affordable and convenient to order.
ordered! Looking forward to this!!
I don’t know it’s the right antenna. I got this
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32991527632.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.10.5aa71802pOua24
BT 502
Way more expensive
Ordered!
my goal would be to play with meshtastic UI
Did anybody try to run it on uconsole?
This thread is going to be popular lol
So, that’s $90 for the board and antenna mount plus another $139 in Trump tariffs for those of us in the USA. This is a much needed part and I’m willing to drive to Canada to pick it up!
I cannot see this. I have noticed in the past few days that Aliexpress items show up as broken pages. I wonder if they are beginning to block US orders.
Am I reading it correctly that the connection to the LoRA radio is bluetooth only, and not serial?
It’s a serial connection
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threw my dollarydoos at this! honestly just about everything i want, gonna use that internal usb for a iridium modem and maybe a 4g dongle too
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Can we use a 2230 ssd drive on the internal type c. I am thinking of power draw would be high. But it has a self cooling fan built in.
I also have this one again 2230 ssd
It’s still only USB-2 so you might as well just use a USB memory stick.
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it happens even to me and I am from Italy. Dunno why
Thank you, was waiting for this to become available before ordering the uConsole.
Can anyone recommend / provide details on the antennas that would be needed?
The internal USB-C port and the pin header not have a current limit switch; the VBUS is directly connected to 5V, so it may work, but the speed is limited to 480mb/s due to the maximum speed of USB 2.0.
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I plan to use the internal USB-C port for 4G dongle too.
I don’t want to deviate from the main topic, but I have read on another thread that someone used a riser card between the uConsole and CM5. The height increased helped with thermal management because now the CPU touches the back plate.
But perhaps a new riser can be designed to extract the pci-e signals for a nvme disk and also the Ethernet connection using a flex tape and then have a daughter card somewhere inside to populate a small nvme drive and have the native Ethernet port two. That way we can use the usb 2.0 from the RTL-SDR extension board for more appropriate things that does not restrict speed.
PS: this is the riser thread
Plenty of us having the same thought.
Been banging my head trying to learn kicad in order to try and put something together myself.
Sadly i’m shit at kicad.
But i figure that if you route the PCI-E lanes to a couple of flat cable connectors you’d be able to get both pci-e and usb-3 broken out inside the device.
Kind of want a mini pci-e option so i can chuck in a much better sdr and get higher bandwidth and TX in conjunction with this newly released SDR expansion.
But the internal usb port was really nice because now i realised i can also mount a digirig on the inside and just drill a couple of holes for the connectors and the uconsole becomes a really competent little qrp computer for digital modes.
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