[amsat-bb] Pratham: IITB Student Satellite Beacon Active

Mani [VU2WMY/KJ6LRS] wmy at isac.gov.in
Mon Dec 19 04:30:20 UTC 2016


  Thanks Jan for the info !!

73 de

Quoting PE0SAT | Amateur Radio via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>:

> Good to hear that more station are receiving PRATHAM on VHF.
>
> My last pass of this morning 12:06 UTC was also successful, but again no
> signals on UHF.
>
> If you want to see how this satellite sounds, I have a SDRSharp Base
> band IQ on the following
> location. The SDR that I used for this recording is a FUNcube Dongle
> Pro+ at 192000 samples/second.
>
> https://janvgils.home.xs4all.nl/download/PRATHAM/
>
> Sorry for the mess in the spectrum, but as you can see I have some
> terrible QRM on VHF.
>
> 73 Jan
>
> ---
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> On 17-12-2016 10:29, Jean-Pierre Godet wrote:
>> Hi my friends !
>>
>> Heard VHF CW beacon in western Europe, around 09:00 UTC, orbit nr
>> 1201, 15 deg. max pass above horizont. I fully agree with Greg/KO6TH:
>> "Good to hear the Chirpy Sat again!".  :-)
>>
>> Have a nice day, 73!
>>
>> Jean-Pierre/F5YG
>>
>> On 17/12/2016 03:47, Greg D wrote:
>>
>>> 03:33z 10-degree pass from CM98, heard the same here on 2m.  Good to
>>> hear the Chirpy Sat again!
>>>
>>> Sorry, no FSK (presume 9600 bps?) capability.
>>>
>>> Greg  KO6TH
>>>
>>> Paulo PV8DX wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> Heard in the extreme north of Brazil.
>>>>
>>>> Repeats in Morse Code
>>>> VU2BUG  PRATHAM IIT BOMBAY STUDENT SATELLITE
>>>>
>>>> 17 DEC  2016  -  01:47 UTC
>>>>
>>>> link
>>>> https://youtu.be/m_kLNHT4w6k
>>>>
>>>> 73 de Paulo PV8DX
>>>> LABRE/ARRL
>>>> AMSAT-BR/AMSAT-NA member
>>>> FJ92pt - VUCC SAT
>>>> http://amsat-br.org/
>>>> www.qrz.com/db/pv8dx[1]
>>>> Contact ARISS 13/fev/2014
>>>> http://www.labre-rr.org/ariss.html
>>>> Boa Vista-Roraima-Brasil
>>>> pv8dx at arrl.net
>>>>
>>>> -----Mensagem Original----- From: Aayush Yadav
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 5:16 PM
>>>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org ; Rachana Agarwal ; Subramani BA ; Mani VU2 WMY
>>>> ; Manvi Dhawan ; Ratnesh Mishra
>>>> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Pratham: IITB Student Satellite
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> We are glad to inform you that PE0SAT was able to receive the beacon
>>>> of the
>>>> satellite yet again. We have started the preparation to track the
>>>> satellite
>>>> in the hopes of establishing if the satellite is active again. We
>>>> would be
>>>> glad if you could help us in this and try receiving the signal from
>>>> Pratham.
>>>>
>>>> Downlink:
>>>> Frequency: 437.455 MHz
>>>> Modulation: FSK
>>>>
>>>> Beacon:
>>>> Frequency: 145.98 MHz
>>>> Modulation: CW
>>>> OOK Morse code.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Team Pratham.
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