[amsat-bb] DIWATA-2 FM-Voice+APRS

[Pedro Converso]

Hi Scott,

You're right about days of the week for operating modes, what confused me was
'telemetry transmission will be abruptly aborted when a voice
repeating operation starts'

Will be wise to expect more information from the designers, to know
operating schedules.

73, lu7abf, Pedro

On 11/5/18, Pedro Converso <pconver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> By http://phl-microsat.upd.edu.ph/diwata2 it looks that DIWATA-2 has a
> clever design.
>
> Looks that will operate in both modes (voice and APRS), if data is
> received will honor data, if voice is received will honor voice, will
> be quite interesting to see how operates in real
> situations when both modes compete.
>
> Looks that still is being commisioned, so should wait for the lucky
> first station to copy.
>
> 73, lu7abf, Pedro
>
> On 11/5/18, Scott <scott23192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for the reminder -- there are so many sats that it's hard to
>> keep
>> up with all of them.
>>
>> They mention the following:
>>
>> -------
>> Diwata-2’s Amateur Radio Unit (ARU) operates in two possible modes: FM
>> voice repeater (FMVR) mode, and APRS-based digital repeater (digipeater)
>> mode. The uplink and downlink of these modes are implemented at 437.7MHz
>> and 145.9MHz respectively.
>> ------
>>
>> ... and that the mode will depend on the "day of the week".  Do we know
>> which days are FM voice & which days are digipeater?
>>
>> -Scott,  K4KDR
>>
>>
>> ======================================
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:56 AM Pedro Converso <pconver at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> DIWATA-2 Philippines’ second microsatellite had been launched.
>>>
>>> Cat# 43678 operates as UHF/VHF FM-Voice repetear and APRS Digi.
>>>
>>> http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=diwata-2 shows times and Freqs.
>>>
>>> Details: http://phl-microsat.upd.edu.ph/diwata2
>>>
>>> Good luck if trying.
>>>
>>> 73, lu7abf, Pedro
>>>
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