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

[Scott]

I have repeatedly tried every combination of:

CQ, APTT4, or APRS

-via-

ARISS, BIRDBT, BIRDMY, BIRD-PH, JG6YKL, JG6YKM, JG6YKN, APRS, or WIDE1-1

... without any evidence of digipeater activity.  Included in those
attempts I have used doppler tracking on the uplink and at other times just
set on 145.825 without tuning.  All via a 50w radio w/ an AZ-EL tracked
directional gain antenna.  I have also replaced properly formatted payload
messages w/ the plain text non-APRS formatted message style used in their
beacons without success.

-Scott,  K4KDR

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On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:56 AM Hasan al-Basri <hbasri.schiers6 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>