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FUNcube Dongle Pro+ User Manual
AMSAT-UK FCD2 regulatory statements
FCC statement
WARNING: MODIFICATION OF THIS DEVICE TO RECEIVE CELLULAR RADIOTELEPHONE SERVICE
SIGNALS IS PROHIBITED UNDER FCC RULES AND FEDERAL LAW.
Industry Canada statement
This device complies with Industry Canada licence-exempt RSS standard(s). Operation is subject to
the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause interference, and (2) this device must
accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.
Introduction
Many thanks for purchasing the FUNcube Dongle Pro+! The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ is a software-defined radio (SDR)
covering all broadcast and amateur radio bands from 150kHz to 1.9GHz. With an SDR, many of the functions of a
traditional hardware-only radio are performed in software, such as demodulation, decoding and frequency conversion.
The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ hardware is designed to be very simple to set up, with the only connections being an antenna
connection and a USB connection. There are no physical controls on the FUNcube Dongle Pro+: all the settings for the
FUNcube Dongle Pro+ are controlled from host computer.
History
When the original FUNcube Dongle was designed, it proved far more popular than we ever anticipated. Then when we
had an opportunity to update the design for the FUNcube Dongle Pro+, we took into account the user feedback, and re-
engineered the device from scratch as a result.
Although there are numerous applications for FUNcube Dongle devices, first and foremost it is designed to be a radio
receiver for the FUNcube satellite. Let's briefly take a look at what the FUNcube satellite project is all about.
The FUNcube satellite is an AMSAT-UK project, and its primary goal is to encourage and educate young people in the
disciplines of radio, space, physics and electronics, and to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) initiatives by using practical demonstration.
The fundamental design criteria of FUNcube Dongles is to allow the target audience of primary and secondary school
students to directly receive data and voice from the FUNcube satellite.
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Summary of Contents for FUNcube Dongle Pro+
- Page 1 The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ hardware is designed to be very simple to set up, with the only connections being an antenna connection and a USB connection. There are no physical controls on the FUNcube Dongle Pro+: all the settings for the FUNcube Dongle Pro+ are controlled from host computer.
- Page 2 In addition, the pupils can request their own messages, similar to SMS text messages, to be sent into space and have them retransmitted by the FUNcube satellite as part of its telemetry data stream. The transmissions will be received globally by a network of thousands of FUNcube Dongle owners, and with appropriate software, the messages will be distributed through a central telemetry datawarehouse.
- Page 3 Unzip the programs into appropriate directories, and run both the FCHid and the SDRSharp executables. It may be convenient to create desktop icon shortcuts at this point if desired. Each time SDRSharp is started, it is recommended that the following settings are adjusted for use with the FUNcube Dongle Pro+: ...
- Page 4 For wideband FM (WFM) signals, almost the entire 192kHz is required for demodulation, and it is recommended that that the demodulation’s carrier (the vertical red line) is set to the centre DC position. In this case, the FCHid frequency is the same as the broadcast signal’s frequency. In radio terms, this is a single, direct conversion receiver. For narrow band signals, such as NFM, AM, SSB and CW, typically the centre DC position is often avoided as there are hardware artefacts such as local oscillator phase noise that can interfere with reception.
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