Using IQ files
Convert downloaded IQ files. IQ files are stored in for example raw 32bit IQ samples and a sample rate of 192 kHz. There are a number of ways to decode this binary data. Two potential options for reading raw samples … Continue reading
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Amateur Deep Space Tracking
This is a copy of a message send by PA0DLO to the Amsat-BB mailing list with information on how to track Satellites carrying amateur radio payloads that will go into deep space. All, Many radio amateurs are familiar with tracking … Continue reading
PicSat end of mission
On Tuesday 20 March 2018 PicSat suddenly fell silent, after two successful morning passes over Europe. Attempts to re-establish contact have failed, nothing has been heard from the satellite, no sign of life. On Thursday 5 April 2018 the team … Continue reading
UWE-3 celebrating 4 years of operation in space.
UWE-3 News: celebrating 4 years of operation in space. UWE-3 in clean room shortly before launch 2013. During these last four years we received an outstanding support from the Radio Amateur Community from all over the world, which is highly … Continue reading
SIDS
Simple Downlink Share Convention (SiDS) protocol November 20, 2020: Correction: I always thought the SIDS solution started with the UWE (University of Würzburg experimental) team, but this doesn’t seem to be the case, it was the ESTCube-1 team that had … Continue reading
Coming QB50-ISS Launches
This week the following QB50 satellites will be launched from ISS. May 16, 2017 at 08:25 UTC ( 10:25 CEST ) SOMP-2,437405,0,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,9k6 GMSK AX.25 HAVELSAT,436845,0,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,9k6 GMSK AX.25 COLUMBIA,437055,0,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,9k6 GMSK AX.25 Update: 10:24 UTC COLUMBIA received via WebSDR in South Africa. … Continue reading