[amsat-bb] Pratham: IITB Student Satellite

[Jean-Pierre Godet]

On 28/09/2016 20:27, Andrew Rich wrote:

> Cool ITS ALIVE !
> ...

   I was not sure yesterday evening, with MOVE-1, Duchifat and AO-73 all 
around, but no doubt, PRATHAM is definitely alive. Congratulations !
   The CW speed is fairly high, a little bit chirpy, all as we like. No 
?   :-)  As I decode with my poor little human ham ears, I don't know 
exactly, but I would say 40 wpm, something like that. A piece of my 
record of the pass over western Europe, orbit nr 43 this morning at 
about 1030 UTC, is here (with a GPA in the attic, the good old FCD-Pro+, 
Debian-Linux, Gqrx/GPredict):
http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/PRATHAM_orb43_29sep2016.mp3
text is, of course, "VU2BUG PRATHAM IIT BOMBAY STUDENT SATELLITE" 
repetitively.
   The 2016-059C tle was used to compensate the Doppler drift and, as 
you can hear, it's still not so accurate for the moment. But anyways...

   Have a nice day, 73 !

   Jean-Pierre F5YG