Hi Alan,
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Perhaps your observation "c" can be explained by the version of Excel you are using. I'm using MS Office 2010 and it sees all of the columns fine. An earlier report from a tester suggest that some older versions of Excel cannot handle all of the columns produced by the telemetry and the program.
"c When running the test file Excel complains that data has been lost from the CSV file because the number of columns exceeded the 256 column limit. (Excel opens OK and all 256 columns contain data)"
I suspect a newer version of Excel is required; maybe OpenOffice can handle it?
73,
Mark N8MH
At 04:35 AM 2/13/2011 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Douglas,
I have some recordings but I am not sure they will be of much use.
However I thought it might be useful to share my experiences with the telemetry.
I monitored the audio downlink on the first two passes and the data downlink on three passes. I used the ARISSATtlm-0.47 software for decoding on the data passes.
On the first pass I could not clearly see the CW signal on the tuning indicator so no decode of the CW or data. The next two pass I had good CW decode and could line up the CW signal OK but no decode. After the passes (naturally) I re-read the article in the AMSAT journal and realized the importance of the 48k, 16 bit sample rate. The article claims that the ARISSATtlm configures the sound card to these values but when I checked the sound card was still at my normal 44.1k sample rate. Perhaps the software sets it to 48k and then sets it back to its previous value but I suspect not.
I re-sampled my recording at 48k but still no decode. I noticed also that the CW decode from the recording was not as good as the original so perhaps the recording was at fault.
To test this re-sampling method I re-sampled the test wave file at 44.1k and confirmed that it would not decode. I then re-sampled this file at 48k and once again it would decode.
(i.e. the re-sampling worked OK.) This again perhaps pointed to a problem with the quality of my recording.
Some observations.
a Make sure the sound card output is set to 48k/16bit.
b I noticed that the live telemetry sounded quite different from the test wave file. The data signal was much more obvious.
c When running the test file Excel complains that data has been lost from the CSV file because the number of columns exceeded the 256 column limit. (Excel opens OK and all 256 columns contain data)
d I notice that when I use the 0.7 software to decode the test file, the software remains active until I close it. When I attempt to decode my recordings the software always closes itself when the file ends.
73
Alan
ZL2BX
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Quagliana Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:59 To: amsat Subject: [amsat-bb] Wanted: ARISSat-1 BPSK1000 recordings
If anyone made a recording of ARISSat-1's BPSK1000 signal (either an SDR recording or just a regular recording), then I'd like to get a copy. Please email me if you made a recording of the BPSK1000 signal. 73, Douglas KA2UPW/5
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