Delfi-n3Xt 2400 bps BPSK decoded in Japan

Decoding the Delfi-n3Xt 2400 bps BPSK beacon on 145.870 MHz has proved to be very challenging but Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW in Japan has succeeded in decoding some frames. He decoded three frames of telemetry in two passes on November 27. In a recent update Jasper PC4JB...

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...