Comments on: Connecting external GPS antenna to the Starlink terminal

By: Baú

Baú — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:23:08 +0000

Hello Oleg, I have been thinking about buying these STA8089, as I am having several problems. Not everyone can be resolved with a weld rework. Some solutions were solved by placing a patch antenna, directly in place of the micro antenna, just feeding it 3.3V and adding a small inductor, without using BIAS-T. This STA8089 is very expensive for Brazil. Is there any other model that works and is cheaper? Another question, when the STA8089 is off the board, in your APP I didn’t see a place that shows whether the chip is communicating or not. I only see it when it tracks satellites.
Thank you for all the past knowledge!

By: Denis Berger

Denis Berger — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:51:13 +0000

Hello Oleg. I copied and pasted the unanswered questions from another commenter.
Can you please tell me what temperature and flow I would need to set on my heat gun to remove the metal can in front of the GPS chip and what temperature and flow I would need to set, so I can rework the GPS chip also do I need to reattach the metal can afterward or is it not necessary?

By: Mkar

Mkar — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:10:13 +0000

In reply to Viktor. Та же фигня уже пару заменил результат никакой!!!!

By: Oleg Kutkov

Oleg Kutkov — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:52:48 +0000

In reply to Haroon Alakhali.

Hello.

Starlink terminal is not sending anything, and satellites don’t care about the terminal’s local data. The satellite knows its position.
Please read the comments above. I explained why it happens (and why it’s ~20 km).

By: Haroon Alakhali

Haroon Alakhali — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:48:23 +0000

Hello Oleg i have a starlink v2 works in may area for about a month with no problem and then suddenly stoped,I figure out the problem in gps has locked, then i moved to anthor area 20km distance from my home , it works again, can you help me, how can hack the Gps chip and make it sending a fixed location data
I am an electronics engineer
You have a huge experience on that
This is my email Ha.alkahali@gmail.com

Thank you for you informations

By: John

John — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:17:04 +0000

Hello Oleg can you please tell me what temperature and flow I would need to set on my heat gun to remove the metal can in front of the GPS chip and what temperature and flow I would need to set, so I can rework the GPS chip also do I need to reattach the metal can afterward or is it not necessary?

By: Oleg Kutkov

Oleg Kutkov — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:18:51 +0000

In reply to bruce. Yep. Cell size is 22 km. Some cells overlap countries' borders. Plus, there is some natural blurring of the satellite’s spot. So, they can't magically disable the signal on the border.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:18:35 +0000

Legndary, thanks Oleg. Keep up the great work

By: Oleg Kutkov

Oleg Kutkov — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:17:35 +0000

In reply to bruce. You can use starlink.sx to get the cell's map.

By: bruce

bruce — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:13:23 +0000

In reply to bruce. Ah okay, so it won´t be like 50 kms from the border? Needs to be very close like within 1-2 km at most