[amsat-bb] APRS Satellite DTMF uplink - Voice downink

[Robert Bruninga]

Next APRS satellite has APRStt (DTMF and Voice) too:



Launch maybe this summer:  http://aprs.org/qikcom-2.html



Here are some recordings of our next QIKCOM-2 satellite which in addition
to APRS on 145.825 digipeating also lets any user with a DTMF keypad to
uplink his GRID, QSL’s and other messages on a different VHF uplink.  It
gets converted to voice for the DTMF listeners and to APRS on the APRS
downlink so it gets into the global APRS system on http://pcsat.findu.com



Grid:  http://aprs.org/QIKcom/voice/Grid-FM19.wma



Then the manual entry of the contact number:

http://aprs.org/QIKcom/voice/QSL-fast.wma



Then an example of a message:

http://aprs.org/QIKcom/voice/message-73.wma



The voice sucks, but our next satellite http://aprs.org/psat-2.html after
this one uses a better synthesizer.



Bob, WB4APR