Great question, Douglas.
I particularly enjoy telemetry & digital modes. While this number of transmitting sats is a bit overwhelming, I'll probably take the approach that I've used for past multiple deployments:
-early passes, monitor a wide spectrum to see who is transmitting at all. Just see where the marks line up on the RF spectrum and see what I can match with a published frequency.
-later passes, give attention to sats that are supported by a public-domain decoder & an active project team. So, right away that means Fox-1C, Irvine-02, MinXSS-2, & PWSat-2.
-after that, the "squeaky wheel" sats... if there is an appeal from someone for help from the Amateur Community to listen for a sat that hasn't been heard from, etc., I try to put a priority on those objects.
Beyond that, they'll start to separate and everyone can give attention to the satellites that interest them the most.
Good luck to all involved - this should be interesting.
-Scott, K4KDR
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:32 PM Douglas Quagliana dquagliana@gmail.com wrote:
All,
If you are interested in satellite telemetry, what are your plans for the SSO-A launch next week? There are a large number of satellites with telemetry downlinks spread over 2m, 70cm, and 2.4GHz and right after launch they will probably all be clustered not-too-far-apart.
Getting telemetry from more than one of them seems problematic although I suppose you could get an SDR and record all of 145.8-146 or record all of 435-438 MHz with the intention of post processing the recording for each satellite of interest. Is anyone planning on doing something like this, or is everyone just going to go after one or two satellites? If you do make recordings, particularly if they have multiple downlink signals, I'd like to get a copy.
73, Douglas KA2UPW/5