[amsat-bb] FoxTelem 1.09 released

[Alan Johnston]

And it supports the CubeSatSim, the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator!  Thanks to Chris and the team for supporting the project. 

For more information on the AMSAT CubeSatSim see https://CubeSatSim.org

73,
Alan Johnston, KU2Y 
AMSAT VP Educational Relations

P.S. Contact me to borrow a CubeSatSim loaner to demo or take into a classroom: ku2y at amsat.org 

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 19:45, Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> And I meant RadFxSat-2 / FOX-1E.  RadFxSat is now known to us as AO-91.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> 73
> Chris
> G0KLA / AC2CZ
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:29 PM Chris Thompson <chrisethompson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> This release provides several enhancements and needed changes for
>> RadFxSat, also
>> known as FOX-1E. This new spacecraft sends 1200bps BPSK telemetry in
>> parallel
>> with a linear transponder.  Downloading telemetry and sending it to the
>> server will assist
>> AMSAT and the Radiation tolerance experiments from Vanderbilt University.
>> 
>> You can download it here:
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows/FoxTelem_1.09n3_windows.zip
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux/FoxTelem_1.09n3_linux.tar.gz
>> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac/FoxTelem_1.09n3_mac.tar.gz
>> 
>> The following changes are in 1.09 (from 1.08):
>> * Performance improvements on the telemetry tabs.  This uses less CPU than
>> 1.08.
>> * Clearer display of historical records on the telemetry tabs for RT, MAX,
>>  MIN and WOD.
>> * Bug fixes for Fox-1E decode and display of diagnostic tables, Whole
>> Orbit Data,
>>  formatting of telemetry
>> * Ignore extra commas in conversion curve comments
>> * Allow a single spacecraft to be downloaded from the Fox Server, even if
>>  FoxTelem stores many spacecraft
>> * Latest Golf-T layouts for development
>> * BPSK CRC checksum calculation for GOLF-T
>> * Another new way to decode and display the mode
>> * More generic tab layouts to allow future expansion through soft coding
>> * Throttle the DDE requests when decoder stopped
>> * Many other bug fixes
>> 
>> See the complete list on github here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/ac2cz/FoxTelem/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Release+1.09%22+
>> 
>> --
>> Chris E. Thompson
>> chrisethompson at gmail.com
>> g0kla at arrl.net
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris E. Thompson
> chrisethompson at gmail.com
> g0kla at arrl.net
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