PSAT2 appears to be operating normally after awakening on 26 April from a 9 month sleep. All VHF and UHF functions are intact. The APRS digi is off to encourage experimentation with other modes. Such as DTMF Grids, PSK31, SSTV relay, HF voice SSB uplink, UHF FM down.
The latest Bulletin from PSAT2 on May 1 shows these callsigns have used the DTMF Gridsquare report or sent a DTMF message. The goal of this mode is to allow anyone with ANY radio to do a digital communication without having to have a specialized APRS data mode. ALl you need is a DTMF memory to store your callsign digits.
PSAT2-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAR,HK4D-6::BLNl-DTMF: f|N3CRT,PY5LF,N3CRT,KE4AZZ,F5VKV,KE4AZZ,KE6BLR,2E0CRV
The latest QSO counter is 25.
Bob, WB4APR http://aprs.org/PSAT2.html