[amsat-bb] Estonia's TTU100 X band satellite questions

[k.swaggart at charter.net]

In a tweet from AMSAT-UK I saw that an Estonian university will launch their
TTU100 cubesat on Friday with a X-band downlink on 10465 MHz. Thought it
would be an interesting challenge to aim my X-band dish with a sat TV LNB at
closest point of approach and see if I can see anything on the SDR
waterfall. My LNB output would be at 715 MHz and the Doppler at AOS would be
approximately +533 KHz!

 

A couple of questions before I start configuring the equipment:

 

*	Will the 10465 MHz downlink be on during North America passes or
only when in range of the Estonian ground station?
*	What is the modulation? It's an imaging satellite so I expect it
will be high data rate.

 

73,

Ken, W7KKE