[amsat-bb] FoxTelem 1.09 released

[Mark Jessop]

Is there a link available to a description of the FOX-1E telemetry format?
(modulation, framing, error correction, packet descriptions, etc...)

It would be nice to implement a decoder within SatNOGS, to enable the 300+
ground stations around the world to contribute telemetry...

73
Mark VK5QI

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> For those of you with Fox-in-a-box telemetry stations (Fun Cube Dongle in a
> Raspberry Pi with FoxTelem software), FoxTelem 1.09 has been successfully
> tested on an FIAB.
>
> It is easy to update your FIAB with the new FoxTelem version.  Some time
> ago, I provided the instructions for upgrading to a new FoxTelem release at
>
> http://burnsfisher.com/AMSAT/FoxInABox/Updating%20FoxTelem%20on%20your%20Fox-in-a-Box.txt
> and they will not have changed significantly other than the version
> numbers.
>
> In any case, over the next few days, I will update and post the
> instructions as well as making the new version available on the FIAB SD
> cards sold in the AMSAT store and (a bit after that) on the free download.
>
> Thanks to Chris for a great new version!
>
> 73,
>
> Burns WB1FJ
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:32 PM Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> 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
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