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schnitzelbot··on Designing a Home Radio Telescope for 21 Cm Emission
There are a lot of open source projects. And technology (algorithms and receivers) wise it isn't too complicated nor a secret. That stuff is almost 100 years old.

An easy start is always looking at VHF reflection of strong transmitters that are not creating a lot of noise (like FM stations). ILS or VORs stations are classics.

There are also a lot of meteor and space radars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAVES_(system) ). Universities are super happy in publishing very very detailed (https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote...) specs of their sky radars. And frequencies are well known for ages.

schnitzelbot··on LwIP – Lightweight IP Stack
The quality usually depends on the vendor adapting it to their silicon.

If you look at ST and their STM32 the lwip integration is extremely bug ridden. Just read all the articles in their forum from "Piranha". I also struggled with extremely hard to debug bugs coming from their adaption layers.

Lwip itself has a solid quality.

schnitzelbot··on LwIP – Lightweight IP Stack
There are high quality alternatives:

- NetXDuo from ThreadX. It's Opensource for a while now.

- Zephyr also brings its own stack