[amsat-bb] Can you receive images from AO-92?

[Scott]

The camera on AO-92 is only active when commanded by the ground team and 
does not use the DUV, but rather "takes over" the downlink and uses a wider 
signal.

Adjustment to your SDR software is required when a camera download is 
active.  The normal settings that one might use for voice and/or DUV data 
will not work for the camera downlinks.

Here is a screen shot of one SDR app (HDSDR) where you can see the 20k of RF 
bandwidth and 15k of audio output bandwidth being used to successfully 
received data from the camera when it was active.

https://www.qsl.net/k/k4kdr//images/ao92-hdsdr-camera-active.png

Of course the FoxTelem software needs to be set appropriately as well to 
accept the wideband data.   "Auto" is the best setting since it allows the 
FoxTelem dashboard to work with both DUV data or broadband camera downlinks 
when they are active.

Someone else might be able to confirm the status of any other cameras 
currently active or planned for future missions.

-Scott,  K4KDR

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From: Mandelbrot Set via AMSAT-BB
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 10:41 AM
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Can you receive images from AO-92?

Is the camera turned on? I was planning on using HDSDR and FoxTelem. I
think that there are data packets sent as Data Under Voice (DUV) in the
audio band from 0 to 200Hz in the same FM channel as the transponder audio.
Can you really receive an entire image during a short satellite pass in
that little bandwidth? Do other Oscar satellites have cameras?