DIY-1 Satellite RTTY telemetry received over Africa !

Mode rtty 100 BD 7N2 telemetry of  DIY-1 satellite  received and decoded  Orbit #79 over Africa. .Object Y(47954) Congratulation DIY-1 http://diysatellite.com

 

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UniSat-7 received over Africa.

UniSat-7 received over Africa ...very strong signal through all the pass

 

 

JY1 The Late King Hussein of Jordan with old timer Arab Radio Amateur ...

     JY1 The Late King Hussein of Jordan ( in T-shart) with DR. Sid Ahmed  Ibrahim ST2SA  (holding the mike) and other Radio operators 9K2AL-   9K2AM-7Z3AB-JY4IA

BIRDS-4 Satellites CW Beacon Over Africa 17-03-2021

 

SpaceX decoding

Good summary on SpaceX decoding so far by Scott Manley: How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX's Telemetry & Engineering Video

 

  Over the weekend amateur radio tinkerers in Europe managed to decode some portions of the telemetry data broadcast by the second stage of the Falcon 9 when it's in orbit. This data was in a somewhat standard format, but decoding still required some custom tools to extract the bitstream from the signal and then some guesswork to figure out the exact format. There's still lots of unknown data, but most interestingly this gave access to the engineering cameras including one showing the interior of the liquid oxygen tank.

NOAA-2 returning from the dead

A few days ago, a long-time amateur radio satellite watcher Scott Tilley announced on Twitter that his automated L-Band receiver detected signal emissions from the old NOAA-2 satellite.

 It is not too uncommon for old decommissioned satellites to start transmitting a signal again, you may be familiar with a similar phenomenon that’s happened to Transit 5B-5 or NOAA-9, and plenty other satellites. Happysat has a page on his blog documenting emissions like this, but note that it’s now out of date and the satellites shown there may no longer be active.

Read More  https://sgcderek.github.io/posts/noaa2-revival/

 

FodTrack

The world's best beloved real time satellite tracking system!

It was in 1992, and I was looking for new horizons in my amateur radio station. I had done it all, or almost so. Satellites were the single major frontier I had not yet explored. So I started setting up my satellite station, starting small and improving it step by step. In 1994 I reached the point where I needed directional antennas and a computer control system to keep them pointed at the satellites. There were several systems on the market for just that purpose, but they were all expensive, and most didn't perform very well. So I decided to roll my own. I designed a simple interface to connect the antenna rotator to the computer, and wrote a program that calculated the position of any desired satellite and sent the azimuth and elevation data to the interface. So far, so good. My problem was solved.

Soon later a colleague asked me for a copy of that program. Since it was still very rustic, I added a basic user interface to it, and released it as version 1.0 into the public domain. The rest, as they say, is history... Many people started using FodTrack, made suggestions for improvement, reported bugs, and I kept releasing one version after another, over 30  versions so far! Most of this development happened in the first five years; after that, the system stabilized, and since then I only occasionally add some new features.

At this time, FodTrack controls both the antenna aiming, and the radio equipment, and can be run in manual or in automatic mode. It has a GPS interface for time and position setting, so that it can be used in mobile satellite stations. It is highly configurable to the requirements of each station. And what is its best liked feature, it's completely free for amateur and other non-commercial use! Only if someone uses it for profit, I would like a modest share of the money made that way!

FodTrack started as a DOS program, designed with a view towards optimal performance in DESQview, which was the best multitasking environment available when the program was first created. It also worked well in old Windows versions, as long as you configured a DOS window with direct hardware access, which is needed in order to write the special output required by the rotator interface. I used it under Windows 98 and even XP on an old main-board. Some people even used it on Linux (with DOSEMU).

More recently FodTrack was changed into a genuine Windows program, by using a Windows-based compiler and making changes necessary for this brave new USB world that has no parallel ports and often not even real COM ports. Unfortunately this meant dropping support for the original parallel-port-based FodTrack rotator interface. The look and operation of the software has been kept unchanged.

On this link you will find both the last DOS-based version of FodTrack that supports the original interface, and the current Windows version. homo ludens homepage.

de Manfred- XQ2FOD ..

 

Status of active Birds4 Satellites .

read more @dk3wn-blog

 

New Sats Status

TSURU    4k8 FSK  active    JG6YMX
GuaraniSat-1      active    JG6YMZ
Maya-2            unknown
Tausat-1 9k6 BPSK active
RSP-001      CW   active    8N1RSP
STARS-EC(A)  CW   active    JJ2YVA
STARS-EC(B)  CW   active    JJ2YVB
STARS-EC(C)  CW   unknown
OPUSAT-II         unknown
WARP-01           not heard
Hirogari          not heard

Read more at  wakky.asablo.jp/blog/

Microsatellite Satellites released from "Kibo" on ISS March 14th-2021

Birds-4

 
BIRDS4 Project, Japan
The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan .

 437.375MHz, Tsuru/GuaraniSat-1/Maya-2

BIRDS4 Project website 

 Dear BIRDS-4 followers and amateur radio operators. 

We published the decoder software which is to receive CW and decode it. In the pdf file, you can access the detailed specification of our satellites CW. And you can also access the pptx file which is to explain how to use the software.

https://birds4.birds-project.com/

The BIRDS Satellite Project

The Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite (BIRDS) Project was initiated in 2015 by the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan with the help of over ten partner institutions. It was envisioned by Dr. Mengu Cho, Professor at Kyutech, who became Principal Investigator for the Project. The BIRDS Project trains graduate students from many developing countries in using innovative and cost-effective systems engineering during the course of a two-year satellite project. The BIRDS project was selected by the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) as the winner of the 2017 GEDC Airbus Diversity Award for diversity in engineering. The Project has provided training for students from many countries including: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Egypt, Ghana, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, and Turkey.

One BIRDS project is begun each year, with 2019 marking the fourth generation (BIRDS-4) since the Project’s inception. The yearly projects are carried out by graduate students enrolled at Kyutech for a masters or doctoral degree, and such projects are supervised by four Kyutech faculty members. During these two-year satellite projects, the students design, develop, and operate CubeSats belonging to participating countries. Since 2015, the BIRDS Project has trained fifty-two graduate students, thirty-two of whom hail from under-represented countries, and launch eleven 1U CubeSats.

The long-term goal of the BIRDS Project is to train students in developing countries to help launch and steer their nations’ space programs. As part of the project, Kyutech has built a global human and ground station network of more than fifteen countries that are continually operating satellites and sharing research ideas. The Project hosts an annual BIRDS workshop to foster communication and cooperation, allowing its participants and graduates to meet in person and discuss their progress and new programs. It has supported Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal and Sri Lanka in launching their first national satellites with the help of project graduates. The BIRDS Project has also supported ten institutions in developing countries through the difficult process of creating their own sustainable space research and education programs. Red More @ SSPI

OTHER SATELLITES ARE

Hirogari
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Muroran Institute of Technology
145.900MHz, 1k2AFSK/9k6GMSK/19k2_4FSK,CW


RSP-01
Rymansat Project, Japan
145.810MHz, 1k2AFSK/9k6GMSK/19k2FSK,CW


Tausat-1
TelAviv University, Israel
436.400MHz, 9k6BPSK

 

 

Some of my old messages with ISS BBS,date back to 2004.

 Some of my old messages  with International Space Station  message board,date back to 2004.

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We are pushing the boundaries yet again!

r00t  tweet

@r2x0t

Decoded this really cool video from #SpaceX #Falcon9 2nd stage S-band down-link. Great views of the Earth and also inside view of the fuel tank. Too bad it only transmits for 2 orbits or less. Thanks to the

@uhf_satcom

for the recording. We are pushing the boundaries yet again!

 reed more at  https://twitter.com/r2x0t/status/1370030702633312259

 

LCD display satellite name,azimuth and elevation. part-2

Thanks you all for your interesting in my previous post , the( LCD display Satellite Name,Azimuth and Elevation.)
Many asking for the Arduino code.so here is the code with some hints for the setup.

I added a label texts to the 2nd low row of the LCD. see below photos .



Download and unzip the DdeOrbitronToSerial to temp folder.
Copy the ( DDEOrbitronToSerial.exe) folder and place it inside Orbitron Config folder..
See photo.
Clear any old text below the [Drivers] at Orbitron\Config\Setup.cfg .





When you Click DRIVER button at Orbitron,a window will popup ask you where the the DDEOrbitronToSerial.exe application .
Browse to Orbitron Config file and select it , now the DDEOrbitronToSerial application should launch and you will be able to select your com port and output the satellite data to the serial port. .

I found the DDEOrbitronToSerial sent data to 1st row only. !! so I added in my code a label text to the 2nd row. see photos above...








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More about DdeOrbitronToSerial see http://tripsintech.com/

//======================Arduino LCD display code==========================

//LCD DISPLAY SAT NAME ,AZ AND EL...DE ST2NH 1-3-2021
// include library ..

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
//LCD pin to Arduino
const int pin_RS = 8;
const int pin_EN = 9;
const int pin_d4 = 4;
const int pin_d5 = 5;
const int pin_d6 = 6;
const int pin_d7 = 7;
const int pin_BL = 10;
LiquidCrystal lcd( pin_RS, pin_EN, pin_d4, pin_d5, pin_d6, pin_d7);

void setup() {
lcd.begin(16, 2); // this for lower row
Serial.begin(9600); // speed
lcd.print("WAITING FOR DATA ");
// delay(1000);
}
void loop() {
// seting LCD for the lower row (0, 2) to print satellite name/AZ/EL ..
//The firest row writing by the DDE and Orbitron software??? see the blog for more info....
//At Orbitron to Serial their are many chooses for the data to be print on the 1st row..

lcd.setCursor(0, 2); // low raw
lcd.print(" NAME AZ EL"); // adjust space between words
//to fit on the lcd display

if (Serial.available()) //data from PC available
{
//wait and clear the display !!
delay(100);
lcd.clear();

while (Serial.available() > 0) //if data is here from the PC write the 1st raw..

{
lcd.write(Serial.read());
}
}
}


//======================Arduino LCD display code==========================

LCD display satellite name,azimuth and elevation.

Here is s simple project to display the satellite name,azimuth and elevation
on LCD attached to Arduino Micro-controller.

The software used are :

1- Orbitron v-3.71 .


2-Orbitron DDE Azimuth Elevation To Serial.from Trips in Tech
(http://tripsintech.com/orbitron-dde-azimuth-elevation-to-serial/)

3-My Arduino code to read and display the serial output data from
Orbitron and the serial DDE .

Hardware

1-LCD keypad shield.
2-Arduino UNO.
3-PC.