WREN heard on 437.405 MHz

Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD may have received the first signal from the WREN PocketQube on 437.405 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler). The WREN team would welcome any further reports. The length of the AFSK-modulated beacon is 1.6 seconds. The Telemetry Decoder and an Audio File of...

FUNcube-1 Whole Orbit Data Displayed

Whole Orbit Data from the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) amateur radio spacecraft can now be displayed. Dave G4DPZ writes: We can now display 104 minutes of Whole Orbit Data captured within the satellite and we are working on getting the scaling factors such that all values can be...

FUNcube-1 (AO-73) Update November 26

The FUNcube Team have some new TLEs for object 2013-066B 2013-066B 1 39417U 13066B   13330.15401895  .00003238  00000-0  45063-3 0   205 2 39417  97.7994  42.6429 0062763 180.4144 179.7025 14.77120863   712 These still seem to be the best fit but the team would...

Capturing FUNcube-1 Telemetry

John Besedic KK4EQF has released a video showing how easy it is to capture data from the FUNcube-1 (AO-73) amateur radio satellite using the Dashboard App, a computer, antenna and the FUNcube Dongle SDR. Watch FUNcube Satellite Dashboard and FUNcube Dongle Amateur...

CAPE-2 Text-to-Speech heard in Japan

The Cajun Advanced Picosat Experiment satellite CAPE-2, built by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, launched on a Monotaur-1 on November 20, 2013 at 0115 UT. On November 24 Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW in Japan made this recording of CAPE-2′s Text to...