[amsat-bb] Bhutan-1 and uiTMSAT-1

[Hasan al-Basri]

I see beacons from these two aprs digipeating sats, but I am unsure what
the Via field is to be used in order for packets to be digipeated.

For PSAT and ISS, I use ARISS and it works fine. I don't see a similar
response from either of these other two birds.

I'm a bit uneasy about using a generic field like WIDE1-1.

BTW:

*Is there a generic via path I can use that will encompass (work for), both
the ARISS birds and these two birds from Bhutan and Maylaysia?*

It would be nice, while puttering around the shack, and all of a sudden
hearing packet activity on 145.825, to be able to jump on the keyboard and
begin packeting without having to alter the Via path.

Data captured from yesterday:

Fm BIRDBT To APTT4 Via WIDE1-1 <UI pid=F0 Len=50 >[01:15:59]
HELLO! THIS IS APRS-DIGIPEATER OF BHUTAN-1 CUBESAT

Fm BIRDMY To APTT4 Via WIDE1-1 <UI pid=F0 Len=50 >[01:22:09]
HELLO! THIS IS APRS-DIGIPEATER OF UiTMSAT-1 CUBESAT

I didn't see any digipeated packets from anyone from either of these two
sats. Perhaps their digipeaters are not active? (I did read on-line that at
least one of them was supposed to be active, but it was old news and I've
been out of the loop)


Setup:

UISS/UT7HO (Soundmodem) > Kenwood G-707 > Arrow J-Pole @ 15'  (Rx and Tx) .
This station is on 24x7 monitoring, and tx's when I have time. N0AN-10

Direwolf (Win10) > VBAudio > SDRPlay RSP2 > M2 Eggbeater @ 7'  (Rx only
Igate) . This station (N0AN-6) is active only when I'm not using the
Eggbeater and SDRC Console/SDRPlay RSP2 for other satellite activities.

Any advice would be most welcome.
73, N0AN
Hasan