[amsat-bb] PW-SAT2 on 70cm band

[Armand SP3QFE]

Hello in 2019,

Here you are link to the movie received from the the PW-SAT2 by HAMs and 
SWL ground stations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbMzI9w4MM

73, Armand SP3QFE

On 2018-12-29 02:08, Armand SP3QFE wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> As you probably know since several weeks in the sky is a Polish “bird”
> called PW-SAT2. It is a students’ project, and I’m not a PW-SAT2
> member. The bird is sending data on 70cm band (about 435.275 MHz SSB).
> 
> On 29 Dec. 2018 at about 7:12 UTC, there will be the first trial of
> sail deployment. Now is 1k2 mode, however, the default mode is 9k6.
> 
> I cordially invite you to receive the signal from the PW-SAT2 and send
> automatically (software Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station ) the data to the
> PW-SAT2 team. The Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station software requires to load
> „credentials”, which you can get from your account on the
> https://radio.pw-sat.pl/ service.
> The PW-SAT2 team prepared also some competition for HAM operators.
> 
> In a case that first trial of sail deployment will not successful,
> then the next trials of sail deployment are scheduled for the next
> pass at about 8:47 UTC or on 5th Jan. 2019 at 7:52 and 9:27 UTC.
> 
> Signal 1k2 is possible to decode from almost all transceivers,
> however, SDR should be better.
> Signal 9k6 is wider then 1k2 and only a few radios can receive fill
> signal and decode, so SDR is better to use.
> The recommended configuration os the station is: antenna >> (LNA) >>
> SDR >> Run_PW-Sat2_Ground_Station
> 
> I very appreciate to Piotr SP5ULN and PW-SAT2 team to advise about the
> software and hardware configuration.
> 
> More details and software are here:
> https://twitter.com/PWSat2
> https://radio.pw-sat.pl/
> https://github.com/PW-Sat2/HAMRadio/wiki
> 
> 
> Good luck, 73 and Happy New Year!
> Armand SP3QFE
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