Hello Fellow Amateurs, We have received our first report from Ian Ashley, ZL1AOX, from New Zealand about successful copying of the beacon. -------------------------- CW copied in New Zealand at location RF72mv from 11:24 to 11:37 on 437.425+-, 13th October 2011. Thought I was recording but it didn't start. Sorry. Signals fairly weak and MixW wouldn't decode but OK to the human ear!
Congratulations on a successful launch and deployment. Regards Ian Ashley ZL1AOX" --------------------------
SRMSat beacon and telemetry can be heard @ 437.425 MHz SRMSat Keps file: http://dinesh.cyanam.net/dl/SRMSAT_TLEs.txt
The CW Telemetry and decoding details for SRMSAT are as below: Character 6: Satellite Mode 1. P - Sensing Mode 2. X - Communication Mode 3. C - Normal Mode 4. Z - Detumbling Mode
Character 7: Magnetometer Status 1. C - On 2. P - Off 3. X - Error 4. Z - Ready
Character 8: GPS Status
Character 9: Payload Status
Character 10: Temperature Status 1. C - < 0 degree celcius 2. P - 0 to 10 degree celcius 3. X - 10 to 20 degree celcius 4. Z - 20 to 30 degree celcius 5. 6 - 30 to 40 degrees celcius 6. 4 - Above 40 degrees celcius
Character 11: Battery Status 1. C - Less than 7 V 2. P - >7V and <7.3V 3. X - >7.3V and <7.6V 4. Z - >7.6V and <7.9V 5. 6 - >7.9V and <8.1V 6. 4 - >8.1V
We are looking forward to hearing more reception and health status reports from other Radio Amateurs. Please send reception reports and CW telemetry to kc2yqj at arrl.org or to sanjaynekkanti at gmail.com
73 KC2YQJ Dinesh Cyanam