31 Oct
2019
31 Oct
'19
10:57 a.m.
My pitch, store and forward tiny images. The receiver listens on the receive channel 9600 baud for digital images. It just listens only. Whenever it receives one with proper headers and without error, it stores it. Then on the downlink, it cycles through the last 20 or so, or about however many can be downloaded in an overhead pass. When the 21st picture comes in, it just throws away the oldest image. I suggest using .png formatted graphics with a file size limit of 8192 bytes, something like this? Enough pixels to be fun, but not so much to get unwieldy.
This would make a fun visual demo to show off amsat/ham radio -- the satellite would show a cool little slide show from stations around the world.