[amsat-bb] Compass: High Definiton video showing beacon activation

[Henk, PA3GUO]

Group,

To encourage experimenting with Compass-1, here is a short
video showing how to request a CW beacon of Compass-1.

Actually it is a full High Definition (HD) video, taken
with a CANON HV-30 camera, edited, and uploaded to Vimeo.

Have a look and let me know how you experience this
(download time, picture quality, etc.)

http://www.vimeo.com/4515104

Henk, PA3GUO

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We are happy to announce three DTMF commands to the whole community in order
to say THANK YOU.

Uplink frequency: 145.980 MHz FM, DTMF tones

These are as follows:

**35##  - request a test beacon CW
**36##  - request a test packet 1k2 AFSK FM (UI-Frame)
**60##  - request a housekeeping frame in 1k2 AFSK FM (KISS frame)

Every command will be confirmed with a short "beep" on the CW frequency.

* frequency for CW beacon is 437.275 MHz
* frequency for packet radio is 437.405 MHz

See here for COMPASS decoding software http://www.dk3wn.info/software.shtml

We'd be happy if you send us your received data to
compass1cubesat at googlemail.com
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask us.