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Pictures from Space, Part 1
With my recent success at getting a packet through the space station, and recognizing that my non-directional J-Pole antenna wasn’t going to result in enough downlink signal for spacecraft work (let...
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Pictures from Space, Part 2
You can read part 1 here. It worked really well, and I got to hear Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka’s (props to John Brier for recognizing the voice) answer student’s questions on Internet access while on the...
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First Time Seeing Three
This is the first time I’ve seen three satellites in view of the house, JAS-2 (FO-29), SAUDISAT 1C (SO-50) and OSCAR 7 (AO-7)
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First WX Image from NOAA-18
I received my first WX image from NOAA-18 as it passed overhead just a few moments ago. I was alerted to the pass by the Raspberry Pi based ground station-in-a-box I’ve been working on (far left in...
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My First QSL Card
Just arrived in the mail today and, of course, it is for a space station contact. What’s a QSL card, you ask?
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That Happy Moment When
the demodulator you’ve been working on starts outputting meaningful data instead of gibberish (T7RPUR WIDE1 WIDE2 are valid packet radio strings). I’m writing the demodulator in C++ and it uses the...
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Preamp Progress
I’m making progress on the 440 MHz preamp kit. Should be up and running soon. Will make hearing the 70cm satellites a lot easier I hope. (The kit is by Ramsey, fancy aluminum case by Hammond.)
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XW-2E
Using CubicSDR, a rtl-sdr dongle and the tracking software I’m developing (and a nice Arrow II dual band yagi), I picked up the CW beacon for the recently launched XW-2E cubesat this morning (see the...
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The Audacity of Spacecraft
I have no Morse skillz (yet), but I managed to use my iPhone to capture the audio of the CW beacon of the XW-2A cubesat as it passed through the skies to the West of our home, loaded it into Audacity...
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