[amsat-bb] PW-SAT2 on 70cm band

[Armand SP3QFE]

Hello Everyone,

As you probably know since several weeks in the sky is a Polish “bird” 
called PW-SAT2. It is a students’ project, and I’m not a PW-SAT2 member. 
The bird is sending data on 70cm band (about 435.275 MHz SSB).

On 29 Dec. 2018 at about 7:12 UTC, there will be the first trial of sail 
deployment. Now is 1k2 mode, however, the default mode is 9k6.

I cordially invite you to receive the signal from the PW-SAT2 and send 
automatically (software Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station ) the data to the 
PW-SAT2 team. The Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station software requires to load 
„credentials”, which you can get from your account on the 
https://radio.pw-sat.pl/ service.
The PW-SAT2 team prepared also some competition for HAM operators.

In a case that first trial of sail deployment will not successful, then 
the next trials of sail deployment are scheduled for the next pass at 
about 8:47 UTC or on 5th Jan. 2019 at 7:52 and 9:27 UTC.

Signal 1k2 is possible to decode from almost all transceivers, however, 
SDR should be better.
Signal 9k6 is wider then 1k2 and only a few radios can receive fill 
signal and decode, so SDR is better to use.
The recommended configuration os the station is: antenna >> (LNA) >> SDR 
 >> Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station

I very appreciate to Piotr SP5ULN and PW-SAT2 team to advise about the 
software and hardware configuration.

More details and software are here:
https://twitter.com/PWSat2
https://radio.pw-sat.pl/
https://github.com/PW-Sat2/HAMRadio/wiki


Good luck, 73 and Happy New Year!
Armand SP3QFE