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

[graham at shirville.com]

Hi Scott,
Please add JY1SAT to your list! 
https://funcube.org.uk/2018/11/15/jy1sat/ 
has all the information about deployment times, new UI software and the new
Data Warehouse...it has been a very busy time for the small AMSAT-UK team
that has been putting all of this together!  We will really appreciate all
reports.
Also listen for ESEO - we will be publishing details of this mission within
the next 24 hours.
Exciting times......
73
Graham
G3VZV

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Scott
Sent: 15 November 2018 23:54
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Telemetry hunters: What are your plans for the SSO-A
launch next week?

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
>
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