January 2018 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Fox-1D Reception in Blacksburg, VA
by Zach Leffke 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Two telemetry frames received in Blacksburg on the last pass. VT Ground Station is actually down for planned maintenance, so went after it with FCD PRO+ plus Pre-amp plus Arrow plus FoxTelem SW. SUPER EXCITED here at VT for the first camera test. Keep collecting Telemetry folks! GO AMSAT!!!!!!! -Zach, KJ4QLP -- Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305

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Fox-1D Launched, Telemetry Received
by Paul Stoetzer 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Fox-1D was successfully launched at 03:59 UTC on the PSLV-C40 mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. UA9UIZ received and uploaded the first telemetry to AMSAT servers at 05:28 UTC. Initial telemetry values appear nominal. The first set of post-launch Keplerian elements are reproduced below: Fox-1D 1 99934U 1801D 18012.18036412 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 15 2 99934 97.6514 74.0671 0008545 308.1824 275.3575 15.22876478 16 73, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM Executive Vice President Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)

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FoxTelem test file
by Peter Green 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Could anyone please point me in the direction of the FoxTelem test.wav as it is not at the destination listed in the FoxTelem instructions, or if anyone has a working.wav file please? The launch of AO-91 and 1D have got me interested in collecting the data. Many thanks to AMSAT and all the volunteers who make it possible via the satellites to take part in this exciting part of the hobby Pete G0ABI

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Office Closed
by Martha 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

The AMSAT Office will be closed on Monday, January 15th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day. -- 73- Martha

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FUNcube-1/AO73 Operations
by Graham Shirville 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hi All, AO73 is now in continuous amateur mode for the weekend. The transponder is on with low power telemetry also active. Early next month AO73 will be entering a period of some weeks of continuous sunlight. We are planning then to have a new operating schedule as below: Sunday pm through to Thursday am or pm - Continuous educational mode with full power telemetry. Thursday through to Sunday pm - Continuous amateur mode with the transponder on, and with low power telemetry also active. These plans will be reviewed with experience so may change! Keep having FUN in space. 73 Graham G3VZV

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FOX 1D Veronica
by Endaf Buckley 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Veronica heard here in DM13 (work QTH) and sounding good. Endaf N6UTC

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fox Tlm with FC dongle
by David G0MRF 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Problem solved: Thanks Chris Mark Alan + Nitin. FYI. Although there wasn't another program running, it looks like SDR# had set the parameters for the gain and filtering. - I'll have to watch out for that. Running SDR# again, I reset the front end filtering to '2m' and saw that copied across to FoxTelem. So monitoring back in action. Thanks for the help, and good luck with Fox-1D 73 David G0MRF Hello David! From time to time with the FCDPP I find this helpful to do if something is going "wrong": exit FoxTLM unplug/plug in FCDPP followed by launching FCHID2.002.exe then resetting to default values, then setting the frequency to the "center" frequency I want to use with FoxTLM followed by launching FoxTLM That fixes about anything "weird" I've seen! Give that a go. Mark N8MH At 06:53 PM 1/10/2018 -0500, David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB wrote: >Hi all. > >I've returned from a break over Christmas and noticed the signal level on my fox-tlm screen has dropped. >I've also noticed that the various parameters for the dongle include LNA and Mixer gain along with IF bandwidth of 200kHz >However, there is also a box that says RF filter and that is set to 0-4MHz. > >I can't see anyway to change the RF filter setting ! I assume this should be 2m to select the internal SAW filter. >Any idea where I can start looking? > >Many thanks > >David G0MRF

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Rocket Lab Announces Next Launch Date
by B J 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

http://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-sets-new-window-for-second-electron-launch/

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FOX-1D Audio
by Pedro Converso 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hi, Fox-1D recorded audio from orbit 7 on 01/12 at 13:42 UTC over Buenos Aires: http://amsat.org.ar/fox1d2.wav Passes & freq. at http://amsat.org.ar/pass?satx=fox1d Congratulations AMSAT for new bird !! 73, LU7ABF, Pedro

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Re: [amsat-bb] Fox-1D Launched, Telemetry Received
by W M WILLOUGHBY 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Nice job in getting Fox-1D in orbit and very nice to have the preliminary keps in nasabare.txt so quickly! Having the early keps so conveniently available will likely increase the number of telemetry submissions during these first few days. I‘ll be listening when it comes by in an hour or so!

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