Ground Station Equipment - RD-0001.01

Rather than compromising existing stations, adversaries may acquire or assemble their own RF ground stack. Typical building blocks include: steerable mounts with auto-track, time/frequency standards, band-appropriate antennas and feeds, LNAs and filters at the feed, low-loss IF chains, T/R switching, medium/high-power amplifiers with protection and telemetry, and weather protection. Baseband equipment often mixes SDRs with commercial modems to generate/capture mission waveforms and framing; signal generators and spectrum analyzers support calibration and banner-grabbing. On the digital side, ground data processors translate captured frames to packetized formats for analysis and rehearsal. With this kit, an actor can passively collect, actively probe, or attempt spoofing if link-layer authentication is weak.