[amsat-bb] Telemetry hunters: What are your plans for the SSO-A launch next week?

[Scott]

Great question, Douglas.

I particularly enjoy telemetry & digital modes.  While this number of
transmitting sats is a bit overwhelming, I'll probably take the approach
that I've used for past multiple deployments:

-early passes, monitor a wide spectrum to see who is transmitting at all.
Just see where the marks line up on the RF spectrum and see what I can
match with a published frequency.

-later passes, give attention to sats that are supported by a public-domain
decoder & an active project team.  So, right away that means Fox-1C,
Irvine-02, MinXSS-2, & PWSat-2.

-after that, the "squeaky wheel" sats... if there is an appeal from someone
for help from the Amateur Community to listen for a sat that hasn't been
heard from, etc., I try to put a priority on those objects.

Beyond that, they'll start to separate and everyone can give attention to
the satellites that interest them the most.

Good luck to all involved - this should be interesting.

-Scott,  K4KDR

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:32 PM Douglas Quagliana <dquagliana at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
>    If you are interested in satellite telemetry, what are your plans
> for the SSO-A launch next week? There are a large number of
> satellites with telemetry downlinks spread over 2m, 70cm, and
> 2.4GHz and right after launch they will probably all be clustered
> not-too-far-apart.
>
>    Getting telemetry from more than one of them seems problematic
> although I suppose you could get an SDR and record all of 145.8-146
> or record all of 435-438 MHz with the intention of post processing the
> recording for each satellite of interest.  Is anyone planning on doing
> something like this, or is everyone just going to go after one or two
> satellites?  If you do make recordings, particularly if they have multiple
> downlink signals, I'd like to get a copy.
>
> 73,
> Douglas KA2UPW/5
>