gr-satellites 4.6 and 3.13

[daniestevez]

A new stable version of gr-satellites has been released today. Version v4.6 supports GNU Radio 3.10 and 3.9. Version v3.13 contains the same functionality for GNU Radio 3.8.

A package of v4.6 for Ubuntu 22.04 is now available in the PPA.

Conda packages are on their way and will be released soon.

The changelog for this release is the following. It is noteworthy the inclusion of the new generic CRC blocks: CRC Append and CRC Check. These blocks have been upstreamed to GNU Radio and are included in GNU Radio 3.10.2.0. gr-satellites ships its own version of these blocks, since the blocks are not available in previous releases of GNU Radio.

Added

• Support for BDSat
• Support for D-STAR ONE LightSat
• Support for Eaglet-I in BPSK mode
• Support for INS-2TD
• Support for INSPIRESat-1
• Support for OreSat0
• Support for PlantSat
• Support for SanoSat-1
• Support for SUCHAI-3
• New generic CRC blocks
• Telemetry parsing for CSP v2

Changed

• Improved NRZI decoder block
• Refactor code using CRCs to use the new blocks
• Updated example GRC files to GNU Radio 3.10
• Deprecate Print Header block

Fixed

• Codec2 UDP sink under GNU Radio 3.9
• KISS server sink under GNU Radio 3.9
• UDP source under GNU Radio 3.10

Removed

• Leftover files for D-STAR ONE telemetry parser