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This guide will walkthrough on how to start your own r2cloud base station.

Assemble station

Go to the Bill-of-materials page and get the required components.

Install software

Go to the README and check "Installation" section. It will help setup required software.

Enjoy the result

Run everything together for couple of days and check results. Observations are scheduled automatically, you can select the required satellites from the list:

Operate the station

If everything runs smoothly, then there is something else can be done:

• Test additional combination of hardware/software.
• Tune SDR parameters
• Improve reception rate
• Share the data with the rest of the world
• Consider adding rotator
• Use solar panels and optimise power consumption

Join community

• Contribute to r2cloud project. There are a lot of satellites needed by the community. You can help the project by writing corresponding decoders
• Check the issue tracker for any open issues and fix them.
• Improve demodulators and the decoding rate
• Join discussions