I want to mount both on the roof of my 2015 Toyota Highlander.
But, I’m concerned that the Mini might fry the Kraken front ends, either with its satellite uplink (10GHz range) or its Wifi.
The separation I can get is limited by the size of the roof.
Currently only the Mini is on the car, as I used it on my recent storm chase vacation.
Also, I’ve noticed interference a times that appears to be the Mini jamming the Sirius/XM that is built into the vehicle (I assume the antenna is in the fin).
I have the Starlink mini on my car. I ordered a 12V to 36V adapter off Amazon to run it. Its a older Subaru outback. I used the roof mount Starlink sells. I haven’t encountered any issues related to the mini interfering with the KrakenSDR.
There shouldn’t be any issue with a starlink dish frying a KrakenSDR, the frequency is well out of reach for the KrakenSDR, antennas and cables, and so very little energy will enter it.
The main concern is that the starlink dish could block line of sight of the KrakenSDR antenna array which would cause issues with receiving a good bearing from the direction that is blocked.
This setup is not with a dish. The Starlink Mini is flat, with an electronically steered very high gain antenna. No problem with line of sight. I was concerned that it’s high EIRP beam might hit the KrakenSDR antennas, but apparently its lowest elevation is 40 degrees above horizontal, so that should be okay.
Yep, I’ve seen the Starlink mini antennas before, but don’t they still call them “Dishy’s”?
But yeah if you have it 30cm away from the Kraken antennas, the path loss at ~15 GHz is already well below the Kraken’s max input power, and of course any remaining input power would be attenuated heavily in the antennas, cable and PCB before even reaching the chips.
Just in case, I wouldn’t try placing it right up against the antennas though.