Looks like my backyard where I used to live before I got sick and bedridden. I had 2 H-H 12 foot C/Ku satellite dishes and 3 Ku 1 meter fixed dishes and 3 Ka band dishes Linear and circular polarization I had over 12,000 video and audio channels I really miss watching feeds from Asia and Africa 😢😢😢😢 I had a huge antenna tower with everything from 10/11 meter to 800/900 yagi's and 2.4 Ghz 8 foot panel antennas I had so much fun with my setup I worked in media for a few years but I loved communication satellites and LMR long before that. The most fun was pointing the dishes at the ground and picking up land based C and Ku signals I found the post office using a C band point to point communication link. It identified itself continuously using Morse code on 5.80 Mhz off the carrier Really amazing how much C band is still used for data links And the 29 Ghz band was also a high speed data link used from a state office tower to a national insurance company. No idea why they had that. I miss the old days, when everything was analog and not many people used two-way radios. Now it is a zoo on almost any band
As a ham, I strive to have another antenna/dish farm. I just got a cargo container to house some stuff in on my wooded lot, I will be trying to site survey out the C-band positioning this spring after the leaves are in. I have a T90 toroidal to install, a 48 foot tower, several c-band dishes (only one H-H) and lots of stuff to try to catch from the birds :)
I think that flap goes down first to protect the back of the antenna from scratches, the back of the backpack is already padded and the flap has a whole in it for the mast that matches the foam cut out in the lower part of the case. Great videos, I'm watching all of them. Keep up the good work
A neat little trick to stow a starlink antenna without a connection to it, is to place the front of the dish flat onto a surface. it will stow after a few minutes. Or just setup a static route so you dont have to switch wifi.
Ooh. Is this like your EnGo, where it can load balance and fall over LTE providers? But it's for more of your equipment. I like these more technical network stuff. I think cisco routers have similar features too!
Hi Lee, the heart of the system is a Dejero Transport Aggregation Gateway that uses the same smart blend system as the EnGo: www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/cs-bcs-transport-aggregation-gateway-tag-sell-sheet.pdf
@@peterfairlie2296 Ooh! That's awesome to see. I wish I can work with these kinda hardware and tinker with them too! Seriously. Some cool stuff you got there.
Also that looks so sick! Man i would love to be in the field your in! Edit: Also, just a quick question/thought. Is there room in the case for a battery backup, not a massive one maybe an hours worth of time for a loss of power situation?
".... with field changeable SIM's for IMSI cloaking" Q: Do the cellular modems allow IMEI changing? If not - wouldn't that still allow tracking/catching?
No, the Combat Commander mixes 3 LTE modems together with Starlink. Not only does this increase speed it also provides resilience & redundancy to changing physical and network situations.
Hey man you are an inspiration to me, i actually saw the pirating satellite video of yours and it is fascinating. Could you please tell me how'd you learn all this stuff and any books you'd recommend? I WANT TO BECOME LIKE YOU !!
I'm glad to know I am an inspiration to you! Best advice is to enroll in a respected college and graduate with a high GPA in electronics engineering and you'll get a great job like I did. I worked right out of college for a defense contactor for 7 years on field artillery battlefield communications. You really start learning when you are exposed and experience the most advanced in technology. I've been doing this for 30+ years now.
@@peterfairlie2296 Thank you so much for the advice. I am actually a high schooler currently and know quite a lot about electrical engineering so I have quite a while to go into a college. So could you suggest to me any online source I can study from, Man I am looking into this day and night but don't quite know how should I begin with it?
Why not use milspec cannon plugs with potting compound on the backside. Also setup a faraday cage in the case to prevent electromagnetic radiation. Your networks only as strong as its weakest link! Doesn’t your omnidirectional antenna array interfere with each other or are they each covering separate frequency spectrum?
This version is a prototype at this stage but has been preforming very well. We can always add EMP hardening in case of a Russian tactical nuke attack.
@@peterfairlie2296Nuclear Air Burst will take out many satellites… you’d have better luck with a High speed MARS station. But I like how it looks and the clean execution of the work. Has Elon guaranteed he won’t shut off satellite access like he threatened Ukraine with? What would be the unit cost if you could scale up production?
very interesting project!.... what is the reasoning for having all the connectors on the inside of the case rather than having all your external connections/Ae's mounted to the outside?
I dont understand how the modem mixes the 4 different gateways from 4 different providers? I assume it maxes out packets on one network then moves to the next? All thise lte antennas in a row dont they interfere with each other?
Interesting and it looks like a cobbled together version of a cradle point. The concept is great & the implementation was nice too. I think I might try that with the sole goal of a more compact version, maybe also incorporating the star link antenna, allowing one case fits all. Great job🍺🍺 OH-How durable are the ribbon cables in the extenders?
Interested to know what OS/Distro is running on the main computing unit on the Commander (If you're alright with sharing that is😅 ) looking at a similar project at work for an edge computing solution and interested with what distro (linux or not) is running a setup like this 😊
Yes, the LAN's are tunneled back to a VPN server in the cloud and you have full unrestricted Internet connectivity. 5G modems are an option where needed.
how i order one and do you have any thing can bde made in to a back pack i steam in my truck and when go out side us i steam im new this i had few issue with setup i have now i use speedify what is the bonding host setup like @@peterfairlie2296
Looks like my backyard where I used to live before I got sick and bedridden.
I had 2 H-H 12 foot C/Ku satellite dishes and 3 Ku 1 meter fixed dishes and 3 Ka band dishes
Linear and circular polarization
I had over 12,000 video and audio channels
I really miss watching feeds from Asia and Africa
😢😢😢😢
I had a huge antenna tower with everything from 10/11 meter to 800/900 yagi's and 2.4 Ghz 8 foot panel antennas
I had so much fun with my setup
I worked in media for a few years but I loved communication satellites and LMR long before that.
The most fun was pointing the dishes at the ground and picking up land based C and Ku signals
I found the post office using a C band point to point communication link. It identified itself continuously using Morse code on 5.80 Mhz off the carrier
Really amazing how much C band is still used for data links
And the 29 Ghz band was also a high speed data link used from a state office tower to a national insurance company.
No idea why they had that.
I miss the old days, when everything was analog and not many people used two-way radios.
Now it is a zoo on almost any band
As a ham, I strive to have another antenna/dish farm. I just got a cargo container to house some stuff in on my wooded lot, I will be trying to site survey out the C-band positioning this spring after the leaves are in. I have a T90 toroidal to install, a 48 foot tower, several c-band dishes (only one H-H) and lots of stuff to try to catch from the birds :)
those SIM extenders are cool!
I think that flap goes down first to protect the back of the antenna from scratches, the back of the backpack is already padded and the flap has a whole in it for the mast that matches the foam cut out in the lower part of the case. Great videos, I'm watching all of them. Keep up the good work
Thanks!
Nice setup looks really nice!
A neat little trick to stow a starlink antenna without a connection to it, is to place the front of the dish flat onto a surface. it will stow after a few minutes.
Or just setup a static route so you dont have to switch wifi.
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try that!
@@peterfairlie2296 you may have to power cycle it first because I think it'll only do it on the first round of searching but have a go.
Ooh. Is this like your EnGo, where it can load balance and fall over LTE providers? But it's for more of your equipment. I like these more technical network stuff. I think cisco routers have similar features too!
Hi Lee, the heart of the system is a Dejero Transport Aggregation Gateway that uses the same smart blend system as the EnGo: www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/cs-bcs-transport-aggregation-gateway-tag-sell-sheet.pdf
@@peterfairlie2296 Ooh! That's awesome to see. I wish I can work with these kinda hardware and tinker with them too! Seriously. Some cool stuff you got there.
Also that looks so sick! Man i would love to be in the field your in!
Edit: Also, just a quick question/thought. Is there room in the case for a battery backup, not a massive one maybe an hours worth of time for a loss of power situation?
Internally installed lithium batteries cause shipping issues. There is a DC power jack with a wide 10 to 32 volt input range.
does it support e-sims which would seem less trouble than obtaining a local p-sim?
e-sims are possible but that requires our identification to the carrier. With physical SIM's we can use anyone's and remain anonymous.
".... with field changeable SIM's for IMSI cloaking" Q: Do the cellular modems allow IMEI changing? If not - wouldn't that still allow tracking/catching?
Depends on who you are and where you are...
Q: if you need to set APNs - is there a UI (via one of the ports)?
It has a extensive carrier file with all the APN's onboard and can also be updated remotely.
So Starlink uses LTE cellular for the uplink ? Like DirecTV HughesNet did ?
No, the Combat Commander mixes 3 LTE modems together with Starlink. Not only does this increase speed it also provides resilience & redundancy to changing physical and network situations.
A Faraday trunk to store all the equipment would complete the package
It does come with a nice Pelican shipping case
Are the commander modems compatible with emerging satellite based "cell" networks? IE, can it be satcom redundant without starlink equipment?
Does this let you have multiple connections to fail over to?
What did you study in college?
Hey man you are an inspiration to me, i actually saw the pirating satellite video of yours and it is fascinating.
Could you please tell me how'd you learn all this stuff and any books you'd recommend? I WANT TO BECOME LIKE YOU !!
I'm glad to know I am an inspiration to you! Best advice is to enroll in a respected college and graduate with a high GPA in electronics engineering and you'll get a great job like I did. I worked right out of college for a defense contactor for 7 years on field artillery battlefield communications. You really start learning when you are exposed and experience the most advanced in technology. I've been doing this for 30+ years now.
@@peterfairlie2296 Thank you so much for the advice.
I am actually a high schooler currently and know quite a lot about electrical engineering so I have quite a while to go into a college. So could you suggest to me any online source I can study from, Man I am looking into this day and night but don't quite know how should I begin with it?
Why not use milspec cannon plugs with potting compound on the backside. Also setup a faraday cage in the case to prevent electromagnetic radiation. Your networks only as strong as its weakest link! Doesn’t your omnidirectional antenna array interfere with each other or are they each covering separate frequency spectrum?
This version is a prototype at this stage but has been preforming very well. We can always add EMP hardening in case of a Russian tactical nuke attack.
must admit the inside looked far less professional than the outside
It's proof of concept prototyping and the first unit like this ever built.
@@peterfairlie2296 Why Russian? NATO countries have’em also. I’m retired military and I know lots of countries own these things.
@@peterfairlie2296Nuclear Air Burst will take out many satellites… you’d have better luck with a High speed MARS station. But I like how it looks and the clean execution of the work.
Has Elon guaranteed he won’t shut off satellite access like he threatened Ukraine with?
What would be the unit cost if you could scale up production?
very interesting project!.... what is the reasoning for having all the connectors on the inside of the case rather than having all your external connections/Ae's mounted to the outside?
I'd wager there's an API call that you can POST to the router to tell it to Stow. Any more information you can provide on that gateway you use?
I dont understand how the modem mixes the 4 different gateways from 4 different providers? I assume it maxes out packets on one network then moves to the next?
All thise lte antennas in a row dont they interfere with each other?
It splits up your packet payload over all the connections then reconstitutes your your data back into one in the cloud.
Interesting and it looks like a cobbled together version of a cradle point. The concept is great & the implementation was nice too.
I think I might try that with the sole goal of a more compact version, maybe also incorporating the star link antenna, allowing one case fits all.
Great job🍺🍺
OH-How durable are the ribbon cables in the extenders?
Not a cradle point, the gateway I use is: ... www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/cs-bcs-transport-aggregation-gateway-tag-sell-sheet.pdf
Look up visible wireless for your cell modem. $25 includes tax and no throttle unlimited data
dudes living in the future, 16 jan.
Jan 16, 2023. It was filmed last year but only released now do to security restrictions.
Interested to know what OS/Distro is running on the main computing unit on the Commander (If you're alright with sharing that is😅 ) looking at a similar project at work for an edge computing solution and interested with what distro (linux or not) is running a setup like this 😊
can you use all 2 lan on it for home internet 5g modem for bonding
Yes, the LAN's are tunneled back to a VPN server in the cloud and you have full unrestricted Internet connectivity. 5G modems are an option where needed.
how i order one and do you have any thing can bde made in to a back pack i steam in my truck and when go out side us i steam im new this i had few issue with setup i have now i use speedify what is the bonding host setup like @@peterfairlie2296
What lte modem is that?
There are 3 Sierra EM7565 LTE Advanced Pro Cat-12 global onboard.
@@peterfairlie2296 thank you!
The Sierra EM7565 cover all bands & frequencies and can work anywhere in the world.
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