Satellite antenna
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(10-24-2026, 03:35 AM)lidmig@gmail.com Wrote: Good morning, I wonder if there is a possibility to connect a antenna to receive satellite signals on a Pine64, to use it as a Route finder. Thanks in advance.

So assuming there is no way to get the phone in a place where you cna use the receiver built into the phone, because to be clear at this point the internal receiver is very well supported in nearly all OSs that support Pinephone and Pinephone-pro.
If you need to get the GPS signal reception out to where you can receive it and that is where you cant see/use the phone I assume then; you can not easily attach an external antenna to the pinephone's GPS receiver, not impossible but messy and risky to the hardware.
But to get the external antenna effect there are several ways to do this, you could connect via USB or bluetooth a GPS-GNSS receiver.
If using an external satellite navigation device you will need to do a little bit of 'hacking' on the command line to point the navigation daemon at the device's NEMA feed, not a big deal and well documented.
I am using the external receiver method.  I had to put together a compatibility system(splice in a USB 1.0 hub) for a USB GPS receiver to keep it form crashing the link, and set up the gpsd for my Pinetab2 and Ubuntu-ish laptop, it works well now and I can have the receiver wedged up under the windshield on both car and light airplane and use the Pinetab2 or laptop as a nice big map window. The Pinetab2 has no GNSS hardware receiver built in nor does my laptop so the external device is required.

(10-26-2026, 01:47 PM)tllim Wrote:
(10-24-2026, 03:35 AM)lidmig@gmail.com Wrote: Good morning, I wonder if there is a possibility to connect a antenna to receive satellite signals on a Pine64, to use it as a Route finder. Thanks in advance.

Not possible, except LoRA radio in Low Orbit Satellite and have good line of sight.

OK, you have me interested on theLoRa satellites, even so I imagine either a dish or little yaggi of ~L-band size(~2.4ghz) and that is usually and uplink freq, and then what Ka band down or maybe high UHF/L(~1.5ghz).  It has been a long time but I used to use my old Linux Sharp Zaurus for LEO tracking had it rubber-banded to my 2M/70cm fence and ground wire jpole stick yaggi, this was all voice except digital ax25 for the space station BBS package. 

Since LoRa is just a mode you can push that signal over any radio antenna combo you like, I had wat to do with the Othernet/Outernet project and they used LoRa over Ka band TV satellite feed to datalink down and used modified COTS LoRa fed from a Ka LNB to I think high 900mhz convert to send a signal to the Allwinner CPU processing an WiFi share of data earth station hardware.
https://www.cs.fsu.edu/lora-and-low-eart...-networks/

All that said I would want to have a non built in satellite receiver and jut wirelessly connect to the earth station.  Even the globalstar uplink only experiments we did with pinephone were a crude big bump on the back of the phone, btter talk to the device via BT and put a separate transmitter out where it can best see the sky. https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17308
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Satellite antenna - by lidmig@gmail.com - 10-24-2026, 03:35 AM
RE: Satellite antenna - by tllim - 10-26-2026, 01:47 PM
RE: Satellite antenna - by biketool - 10-26-2026, 02:46 PM

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