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Oleg Kutkov
Personal blog · olegkutkov.mehardwaresecuritysystems
Oleg Kutkov's personal blog at olegkutkov.me covers hardware, security and systems. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Oleg Kutkov's blog for reverse-engineering and repairing Starlink terminals and antennas, including GPS antenna mods that resist jamming, and for radio hacking such as receiving Starlink beacons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
- /2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-antenna-to-the-starlink-terminal/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
- How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-21
What Hacker News says?
I don't have any personal knowledge, but you might want to ask Oleg Kutkov - he has been reverse-engineering and repairing Starlink antennas for some time. https://olegkutkov.me/ https://twitter.com/olegkutkov
Comment linking /
on “UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet”Submitted How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router as a story · 361 points
HN discussionThe biggest thing that makes me nuts about our speedtest regimes is that we test upload and download separately, rather than at the same time. People have 16+ wifi devices on their networks today. There IS upstream traffic going on at the same time, most of the time, and what happens when one side or the other also saturated or merely in use is widely misunderstood. For example a short packet fifo on the uplink star…
Comment linking /2024/02/12/starlink-terminal-revision-4-overview-and-tests/
on “New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency”Submitted Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests as a story · 146 points
HN discussionhttps://gps.stanford.edu/research/current-and-continuing-gps... Single element antennas, adaptive antennas, beam steering antennas. Basically attempting to pull good RF while avoiding bad RF. (this has been applied in the Russo-Ukrainian war in modified Starlink equipment) GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616417 - March 2024 (72 comments) https://oleg…
Comment linking /2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-antenna-to-the-starlink-terminal/
on “Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones”Submitted Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router as a story · 132 points
HN discussionIt is in the linked-to article, including discussion about lobes, polarization, more directional replacement antennas, and comparative measurements while being jammed. https://olegkutkov.me/2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-ant...
Comment linking /2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-antenna-to-the-starlink-terminal/
on “GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers”Submitted Custom SIM card in Tesla Model 3 2024, Tesla Model Y 2025 and Cybertruck as a story · 60 points
HN discussionhttps://olegkutkov.me/2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-ant...
Comment linking /2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-antenna-to-the-starlink-terminal/
on “GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers”Submitted Reverse engineering of the Starlink Ethernet adapter as a story · 54 points
HN discussionThe linked article is fairly light on details and doesn't quite emphasize the interestingness of some of the inline links. https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/qtofau/starlink_sat... is particularly interesting and also contains a couple more links (scroll down) Also https://twitter.com/olegkutkov/status/1411124689414541313 The author's blog https://olegkutkov.me/ definitely looks interesting as well (I don't se…
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on “Receiving Starlink Beacons with a HackRF Supercluster”Submitted Dr. Starlink tests the gen3 and gen4 dishy in Ukraine as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> but is the ability to turn on the AC before you get in the car really worth both the security risk and eventual sunsetting of an app and mobile network with direct access to your vehicle? Yes. I’ll never own a car more than 10 years, so I am not concerned about long term IoT longevity, vs convenience today. (Tesla has also swapped out old M2M cellular boards when older protocols are deprecated [1], and while they’…
Comment linking /2021/06/10/tesla-model-3-us-lte-modem-replacement-and-some-reverse-engineering/
on “Nissan accused of dumping its electric car pioneers”Submitted Initial analysis of the Starlink router gen2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to add Ethernet port to the Gen 2 Starlink router as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Bluetooth speaker/FM radio firmware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to physically transfer Starlink account from one terminal to another as a story · 1 points
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