SuperDARN Canada System Specifications¶

Digital Radio Equipment¶

NOTE : ALL cables are phase matched unless specified otherwise
17x Ettus USRP N200 (16 and 1 spare)
- 17x Ettus LFTX daughterboards
- 17x Ettus LFRX daughterboards
1x Ettus Octoclock-g (includes GPSDO)
2x Ettus Octoclock
51x ~8 1/4” SMA bulkhead Female to Male RG-316 for daughterboards
18x 48” SMA Male to Male RG-316 for PPS signals
18x 48” SMA Male to Male RG-316 for 10MHz REF signals
1x SMA Male to 0.1” pin header RG-316 for PPS signal input to motherboard
GPS Antenna (Male SMA connector)
17x Custom TXIO Revision 5.0 board (for transmitter interfacing)
22x Mini-Circuits ZFL-500LN pre-amps (20 and 2 spare)
8x coax cables and adapters for to/from INTF (interferometer) pre-amps
32x coax cables for to/from main array filters and pre-amps inside transmitter
1x 15V, 0.5A power supply (INTF pre-amps)

1x GeForce GTX 2080 or better
2x 16GB DDR4
1x Monitor
1x Power supply, 1000W 80 Plus Gold or better
1x Intel Core i9 10 core or better
1x Cpu liquid cooling unit
1x CPU socket compatible motherboard with serial port header for PPS discipline
1x 256GB SSD
1x 1TB HDD
1x Intel X550-T2 10Gb PCIe network card NOTE: Intel 82579LM controllers WILL NOT WORK

3x Netgear XS708E-200NES (North American model #) 10Gb switches (parent model name is XS708Ev2)
27x SSTP CAT 6a 7ft cables or better*
2x SSTP CAT 6a 15ft cables*

Note that the network cables needs to be verified for the whole system: as not all cables seem to work reliably.

Models tested and known to work include:

Models that were tested and do not work: